if that's the case, the justice department can choose to bring those charges again down the road.hat's a decision the attorney general and his advisers would have to make. so my guess they were able to find unanimity in some cases. but as you said it's complicated both with the number of charges and the number of people and their relative different level of conduct. we'll just have to say where they landed on all of this. >> we are going to go. we're going to hold you here, elliot. thank you so much. we're going to go to katelyn polantsz who is outside the court getting information from our two people inside the court. what are you hearing, katelyn? >> reporter: well, four proud boys leaders have been found guilty by a jury of seditious conspiracy in a major case that the justice department brought after january 6th. those include enriquec tarrio, the leader of the proud boys who was not in washington, d.c. on january 6th, so that makes him very unique among the january 6th defendants. but the jury has found the government proved these men wanted to overthrow the u.s. government o

so fair to ask whether they ever will. >> and the justice department has pursued charges against more than 1,000 of the rioters. what is next, where does the investigation go from here? >> reporter: those people need to go through the criminal justice system. about half of those, a little more than half, have pleaded guilty. but this is a long process. the proud boys who were convicted today all five were found guilty depending on the type of count. so they will need to be sen sentenced. and that will be closely watched in this courthouse because until this case, much of what the justice department was doing was about people who were setting foot on the capitol grounds and going past the police line on january 6 into the capitol complex. enrique was not, he was not even in washington, d.c. on january 6. so the fact that the justice department was able to get a conviction of him today and to see what the judge in this case does at the sentencing later this summer will be a really significant thing. the other thing happening still is they are still making arrests. there are still 250 or

and is there anything there for the justice department to look at?>> well as you know, me, well enough by now, i'm not going to be able to comment on, on that kind of a question as a general matter as a federal judge, i have always believed that the judiciary should follow and be held to the highest ethical standards that continues to be my belief. >> thank you. everyone.

and is there anything there for the justice department to look at?>> well as you know, me, well enough by now, i'm not going to be able to comment on, on that kind of a question as a general matter as a federal judge, i have always believed that the judiciary should follow and be held to the highest ethical standards that continues to be my belief. >> thank you. everyone. >> on wednesday a look at transnational crime and fentanyl trficking with officials from u.s. customs and order protectionreand watch the hearing live at 2:00 eastern on c-span live, our free mobile video apple or online at the -- our free mobile video app or online at c-span.org. >> c-span's washington journal, every day we take your calls live on the air on the news of the day. and we discussed policy issues that impact you. getting -- coming up wednesday morning we will discuss the supreme court's role in the abortion rights access. and brian fallon will talk about the progressive push for supreme court justices. watch washington journal, on c-span, or on c-span now are free mobi

maybe they should think about cutting off funding for different parts of the justice department that were responsible for this miscarriage of justice in 2016? maybe the american people don't need to live with a huge fbi and an all-powerful justice department. >> neil: it is interesting. if you think about it, john, it was the fbi, our forefathers were continuing up with the concept of this great republic. i know a thing or two about overreach and government overreach. given, of course, what we have dealt with with another power overseeing us. it just seems odd that from that foundation things got out of control. yet there doesn't seem to be much punishment for institutions that did get out of control. >> that's an excellent point, neil. if you brought thomas jefferson or alexander hamilton and you used the star trek transporter and brought them together, they would be shocked at the existence of the fbi. there's no mention of a national police agency. the founders would be dumbfounded. maybe this is a time for congress to rethink whether we want to narrow, whether we want to reform th

last week, the justice department held a series of memorials for fallen law enforcement officers fromur own agencies. . we heard stories of extraordinary heroes and we met the families they left behind. to the family member, partner, colleagues and friends who have traveled here today remember your loved one we know it is impossibletowns the grief you endure or to fully comp rehence your loss. so as we pay tribute to the law enforcement officers who sacrificed their lives in service to our country, we also honor the ongoing sacrifices by those they loved the most. thank you so much for being here. in just a few minutes we'll hear the niesms 443 officers who comprise this area's -- this year's roll call of heroes. these are individuals who answered the call to serve from a wide variety of backgrounds, bringing different perspectives and different experiences to their work. they served in big city and small town, some served for decades and mentored generations of colleagues, others had only just begun their careers. but each made the same promise. to serve and protect their communities

and we're very proud of the partnership that we have with you and your department of justice. brothers and sisters, please welcome to our service our nation's top law enforcement officer, united states attorney general merrick b. garland, who will also share a message from the united states president joseph biden. [applause] mr. garland: good morning on such a beautiful morning. as pat noted, i've been asked to share a letter from president biden in recognition of today's memorial before my own remarks. from the president -- greetings to the fraternal order of police, to the members of our law enforcement community, and to all the families who are gathered for this year's national peace officers' memorial service. jill and i are attending our granddaughter's college graduation today, but sincerely wish we could be with you for this important memorial service. to the families of the fallen, i know events like this are really difficult. hearing the name of your beloved husband, wife, son, or daughter brings it all back as if you just got the news yesterday. no words can fill the

now, of course, he is innocent until proven guilty but it is unlikely that the justice department woulds unless they had the receipts to successfully bring this case. >> all right. paula reid, stand by. we did just get a press release from the department of justice saying that approximately 1:00 p.m. today congressman george santos will be arraigned before a united states magistrate judge arlene r. lindsey on this 13-count indictment that was returned by the federal grand jury in the eastern district of new york. our senior legal analyst elie honig is here to, i think, translate what that means for all of us and also just dig in a little deeper to the charges that katelyn polantz laid out here, this money laundering scheme. >> it's helpful to think of this as a four-part indictment. 13 counts but let's break it down to four parts. first of all, wire fraud. the allegation is that george santos raised money for his campaign under false pretenses. he said donate to my campaign, i need the money to run for and win a seat innings could. i need the money to buy tv ads, instead he pocketed tha

sources telling cnn, quote, the handling of the footage and how employees responded to the justice department'spted a new round of grand jury subpoena os to top trump employees this the last few weeks. paula reed is here. also with us is senior justice correspondent evan perez. potentially mishandling the footage, what do we mean tby that? editing the footage? something else? >> we don't know. what we know is originally they were interested in the footage because they wanted to know what happened to the classified materials once they were sent down to florida. among the things they have seen on the footage, it's a junior trump aid moving some boxes out of a closet along with another employee. walt has been asked about what happened there. remember they are not just investigating possible mishandling of classified documents. they are looking into whether anyone has tried to obstruct this probe. now they sent off this new round of subpoenas to ask people what exactly happened after they subpoenaed this footage. and did anyone try to withhold it or tamper with the evidence. >> in an interview with

but this is a really big moment for the justice department in so many ways.s been extremely long. there was an exceptional amount of effort put in to gather the evidence needed to bring the prosecution against these men. these members of the proud boys. and there were things that the justice department found in chats even among members of the proud boys that they were able to show to the jury so far to help secure these convictions, things like a message enrique tarrio, the leader of the proud boys, had sent to other proud boys on january 6th saying, make no mistake, we did this. that was a crucial piece of evidence in this case so far, and it did allow the jury to find tarrio guilty of seditious conspiracy. he was not on the grounds of the capitol or even in washington, d.c., on january 6th, so that was quite a monumental thing for the justice department to be able to are prove in this case. but we are still waiting for that additional count. what happened with the other seditious conspiracy charge against dominic pezzola. pezzola is a person that is very vi

order of police in january of 1995, just months after i began my third tour of duty at the justice department. you have been a friend to the department and to me ever since. my gratitude is beyond words. pat and glenda, thank you all for your partnership, for your leadership, and for your unwavering dedication to supporting our nations law enforcement officers. joining us from the justice department today or deputy director lisa, associate attorney general, fbi director chris wray, dea administrator, the atf director and the u.s. marshals service director ron davis. last week the justice department held a series of memorials for fallen law enforcement officers from our own agencies. we heard stories of extraordinary heroes and we met -- that we met and cried with. the families they left behind. for the family members, partners, colleagues and friends who have traveled here today to remember your loved ones, we know it is impossible to understand the grief you endure or fully comprehend your loss. so as we pay tribute to the law enforcement officers who sacrifice their lives in service to our

internal revenue service and the justice department. in each action, the tactics vary, but the objective was the same to disrupt the government. on tuesday, april 27, may day action called for demonstrators to obstruct entrance to the selective service building when federal employee is refused to be intimidated. demonstrators turned to less violent forms of protest money and draft guards were burned. the national anthem and the american flag were made a mockery. of. the next morning may dares again took up their positions at employee entrances. police ordered them to disperse. those that did not were taken into custody, leaving behind only their traces of glitter. and oh, -- of people. and that is right. it is not. although rain canceled wednesday's march on the internal revenue service, the may day collective joined demonstrators at the department of health, education and welfare on thursday. when they will refuse access to the entire building. they ripped down on love and later upturned white house. again. liz ordered the crowd to dis

all it does is list 13 salacious facts that are dripping -- all untrue to get to the department of justiceartment of justice was duped leaving they had at a mastermind of 9/11 -- believing they had a mastermind of 9/11, coordinating a terrorist program, and a series of other things. every single one of those was false. so mitchell fabricated all of the facts designed to justify torturing. bear in mind, he had been interrogated and tortured by mitchell for five months before they gave this a -- the department of justice this fake description of him. so he invented and fabricated all the facts that allow them to torture somebody who is not absolutely -- not any of the bad things that were said about him. about the drawings. first of all, the drawings are quite gruesome. quite a few american news media have not been willing to publish the report or the drawings because there simply to disgusting. i agree there disgusting, but i think that is exactly why they should be published. ok, among the drawings. nowhere did the department of justice say you can keep people totally nude for weeks, month

justice department. guilty verdicts for the proud boys.urprising report from "the new york times" about an insider witness cooperating with the fans in the trump mar-a-lago documents investigation. more on all of this coming up. stay with us. we all need fiber for our digestive health, but less than 10% of us get enough each day. good thing metamucil gummies are an easy way to get prebiotic, plant-based fiber. with the same amount of fiber as 2 cups of broccoli. metamucil gummies the easy way to get your daily fiber. i need it cool at night. you trying to ice me out of the bed? only on game nights. you know you are retired right? am i? ya! save $500 on our next gen sleep number smart beds. plus, special financing. only at sleep number. >>> sentencing is expected in late july for a far right militia group for their rule in the january 6th capitol riots. >> reporter: a jury has found four leaders of the right-wing group the proud boys guilty of seditious conspiracy on thursday. that jury heard evidence for months that the justice department

more than 300 pages released by the justice department. transmitted to members of congress who also are going to want to bring john durham in to review some of the findings, but the bottom line is this. the investigation found that the fbi failed in many, many ways, things that we already knew from a previous inspect or general report and i'll read you just a part of it, of john durham's con clugz. he says based on my review of related intelligence activities we conclude that the department and the fbi failed to uphold their important mission of strict fidelity to the law in connection with certain events and activities described in this report. this is the top line finding from john durham who was taking a look at what the fbi was doing and what the intelligence community was doing. in the end he doesn't suggest any changes that the fbi and the justice department need to do. he says there are plenty of rules and regulations in place that the fbi just needs to do a better job of following. one of the interesting things that we did uncover

when i went to training when i fist started at the department of justice, i remember being told this,ce doesn't often lose cases because the jury didn't believe its evidence, the department of justice loses cases when the jury didn't understand its evidence, and so we were urged to keep things simple, keep things short and not let too much time go by. i can remember trying to persuade some of our prosecutors to just stop, you know, you've proved the case. at some point you're going to lose the jury, and so i don't know whether they made a mistake or this was just the amount of evidence or sometimes there are things beyond a prosecutor's control. the judge allows too many delays. the judge indulges too much bench conferences or too many objections to the evidence. so there are a lot of reasons trials can take a long time. no doubt it is a long time for members of a jury to remember and to collect the evidence, and in this case, by my count, there's something like 46 separate verdicts they have to make. nine counts with five defendants and a tenth count with one defendant. so i think th

>> the files started the moment he entered the justice department. when he was a very young man, 22 coming straight out of law school he was thrust into a justice department doing some of its first federal experiments in political surveillance. his great talent and skill at that moment was he worked at the library of congress to work his way through college and had library and administrative skills. but the files everybody thinks about on major political figures was later in his life beginning in the 40's into the 50's, 60's, and 70's. they really mattered, in part because nobody knew they really existed. it does not really matter if you have the files or if everybody just thinks you have the files. because, they will behave accordingly. >> when he died in 1969 what happened to those files? >> well, he died in 1972. >> sorry. >> that was one of the big questions at the time of his death. what will we do here? there were a couple sets of files people were concerned about. one where his official and confidential files. those were, as we have learned, t

but the fact that it has taken the justice department a few years to put this case together shouldn't be an excuse to let donald trump off for another day once the department of justice is ready to bring charges. i give the doj -- i have been critical of merrick garland. but i give them credit for the investigations and foot soldiers they put on trial and convicted for the events of january 6 for this attempted coup. the true ring leader was donald trump. based on the evidence that we have seen, he may have been supported not just by the proud boys and oath keepers and hundreds of others, but also by political leadership that should be held accountable. >> congressman joaquin castro. >>> the blame game. russia claiming ukraine and the united states was behind the attack on the kremlin. we will be right back. we will be right back. pods with 85% more tide in every pod. who needs that much more tide? (crashing sound) he does. mom: we're having triplets. no, what does that mean? it means you're gonna need more tide. -see? -baby: ah. more likes? more tide. the more adorable? more tide. ev

the department of justice having an enormous interest in making sure they know who had access to this information, who could have seen and been told disinformation. i had the exact same speculation that you did, that this could relate to that very important issue of national security. >> bradley moss, someone on the trump legal team, no doubt, had the job of telling donald trump tonight, there is an insider witness. >> yeah, not a good night to be that lawyer. certainly, not a good night for the catch up at mar-a-lago. you know, when i read this part of the story, the first thing that came to mind was, ironically, the book that later became a film, the hunt for red october. from tom clancy, if you remember from that story, it was a party operative concealed as a cook who is trying to bring down the submarine. all i'm thinking of, i read this news story from the times tonight here about an insider witness is that the person likely to have been this insider witness was someone donald trump would never have given the time of day. someone low on the wrong, someone who does the menial but

how do we fix the department of justice and specifically the fbi? >> you made several excellent suggestions. first of all, strengthen the inspector general's. especially the one at the department of justice that doesn't even allow the ig to go after crooked lawyers who do bad things. defund the fbi that will get their attention. you know, there needs to be an independent way for congress to actually enforce their subpoena. now, it's just a meaningless scrap of paper if it's issued by a republican committee. the department of justice, more than happy to enforce a subpoena if it's a bit a democrat. marit garland has weapon eyes the doj to target conservatives. the fbi does its dirty work. it's so broken and so rotten. it's of deeply embedded that the bureau needs to be dismantled and rebuilt with honest people at the helm. >> yeah, pam, real quickly. my former colleague, trey gaudi, used to say hey, listen. her subpoena is only good as your ability to enforce it. you can enforce a subpoena on the department of justice that's plain out run out with chai

trump is trying to take his case directly to the justice department. his lawyer sent out a letter to attorney general merrick garland requesting a meeting to discuss the special counsel's investigation. of course donald trump is facing multiple legal challenges as he makes a third run for the white house. today, he made a virtual appearance at a hearing in the manhattan d. a.'s hush money case. it was his first court appearance since pleading not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records. this afternoon, the judge told him the trial would begin on march 25th 2024, the heart of the presidential campaign season. the judge also issued an order of restricting trump opposing about some evidence in the case, nbc legal analyst lisa reuben was in the courtroom. >> the judge did not obey the protective order to trump line for line, but definitely wanted to make sure on the record that trump had reviewed it line for line with his lawyer and that he understood most importantly that it is a court order that if he violates, he risks a wide range of sanctio

but i think we already have the scene of mountain of evidence from the department of justice.s one of the steps that they would like to have before deciding as to whether or not to indict. so it's important in that respect. but, reporting alone i think it's just part of a mountain of evidence already that they're quite far along. >> and, part of that mountain of evidence is what cnn just reported, exclusively last night, the jack smith, special counsel was looking into whether surveillance footage from mar-a-lago was tempered with. so, what does this say about what the special counsel was focused on, and what does it tell you in terms of what might be ahead in this investigation? >> so, that's another important part of the new york times reporting it corroborates what cnn reported last night. so, the new york times is saying that the prosecutor, is indeed asking multiple witnesses about missing or unavailable surveillance tapes of mar-a-lago. , which they were subpoenaed and had to turn over to the justice department. that sounds like the prosecutor is looking squarely at obst

. >> today's verdict makes clear that the justice department will do everything in its power to defendople and american democracy. our work will continue. the justice department will never stop working to defend the democracy to which all americans are entitled. >> those convicted of seditious conspiracy, the most serious charge related to gymnastics, include the long-time chairman of the proud boys, enr enrique tario. members of that group were on the front lines at the capitol grounds and were there when the barriers were breached. a fifth defendant was found not guilty of seditious conspiracy. our legal analyst, ryan goodman, this is the third time the doj has secured convictions for seditious conspiracy related to january 6th. how significant is this verdict? >> it's hugely significant in the sense that the proud boys' evidence was far more compelling in the sense that they explicitly and specifically preplanned the attack on the capitol so to have an acquittal in the case would have been a major setback, and this hopefully sets up much stronger deterrent against the both anti-gove

is this what the department of justice was looking for when they initially sought out these documents right, wolf. we know only a portion of what it is in evan corcoran's notes. we know the justice department has been looking at whether the former president obstructed their investigation into his retention of classified documents. there was this court fight under seal that all played out behind closed doors where doj was able to essentially force evan corcoran to hand these notes over because they convinced a judge there was sufficient evidence that donald trump used his lawyer in furtherance of a crime. so to that end, you can bet there's a lot more in these notes we don't know about. we don't know if it fits the justice department's narrative that the former president may have helped obstruct this investigation because, again, we're getting only a narrow window into what was included in these notes, wolf. >> very interesting indeed. sara murray, thank you. this note to our viewers, coming up on aaron burnett outfront right after "the situation room," an interview with the key advise

more than two years after the january 6th capital attack, the department of justice winning a rare seditious conspiracy conviction for members of the far right group, the proud boys, the department of justice, very rarely charges seditious conspiracy. it's a political crime, and i call it treasons cousin. it's a crime against the state. the government is the victim. defense attorneys, countering that former president donald trump is to blame. referring to his words that day we fight like hell. and if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore. the deal jay's case, the capital attaclowa't ro keep trump in power by preventing congress from certifying joe biden as the 2020 presidential election winner, the government arguing proud boys members ethan nordine , joseph biggs, zachary real, and ex leader enrique terrio saw themselves as donald trump's army thirsting for violence and organizing for action. doj lawyers say tardio coordinate the capital attack from his phone. texting proud boy members . don't expletive leave the jury also acquitting proud boys member dominic

. >> db people in the justice department would feel better if the exley hired some reddish ex spy and made up more allegation in them launched a special counsel investigation because here is what i think it how is that the case that we've not a special counsel appointed by th justice department to investigate this office. that justice department has to treat the same cases in the sam way there they appoint a specia counsel on the russian hopes which was ridiculous and had no evidence of hearing the other had we've got hunter biden's laptop and you've got according to the house of many any child going from chinese companies in the chinese government to intermediaries with the biden family. you've got people who've worked with the bidens who verified th laptop. i'm not saying that guilty and i'm saying the allegation approved but it seems to me tha justice department has to provide a counsel if they're going to have the truck cases investigated in the same way paid. >> that may happen or never happened. if these accusations from republicans are not not to be credible or perhaps the whis

last week the justice department held a series of memorials for fallen law enforcement officers froms and friends who have traveled here today to remember your loved ones, we know it is impossible to understand the grief you endure or to fully comprehend your loss. so as we pay tribute to the law enforcement officers who sacrificed their lives in service to our country, we also honor the ongoing sacrifices by those they love the most. thank you so much for being here. and just a few miss we will hear the names of 443 officers who comprise this year's roll call of heroes. these are individuals who answered the call to serve from a wide variety of backgrounds bringing different perspectives and different experiences to their work. they served in big cities and small towns. some served for decades and mentor generations. others had only just begun their careers. but each made the same promise, to serve and protect their communities. they promised that when a call for help gain, they would answer. they promised that when a crisis arose in their community, they would respond. they promise

that would be a very helpful thing to the justice department.just asking for legal advice. i want to know can i push back on the subpoena or not. i will say one thing. it strikes me as a little unusual that the notes are this detailed. when i was a prosecutor, sometimes you don't want to take a lot of notes because you're always worried that somebody may try to get them to question what kind of thoughts were going on there. so it's possible he was doing this as a safety net for himself, knowing this is a difficult client. he may have been documenting his notes at the time. that's more of an agent's notes. >> and at this moment, corcoran is talking to his client about collecting documents at mar-a-lago. when he hands over an envelope in june, which is the end of these notes, he hands them an envelope with documents of classified markings and tells the justice department, we know this from court filings, he believed there was no other classified documents at mar-a-lago. obviously, there were hundreds of more. so the justice department is trying to

the justice department, is -- in that federal court in d.c. is that they could get around the 2000 numbers. that's another thousand cases in the next two and a half years. but, that's going to take a lot of work. and that's gonna take a lot of these cases turning out. you, know there's been a lot of momentum in this case, even this, week and i think that now that we have a situation where this large case, this large seditious conspiracy cases sort of of behind, them now we've gotten some new a usa online, assistant u.s. attorney online, we could see a lot of momentum in the. but there was a lot of cases even brought this week, for example, we had fbi -- >> i think ryan has frozen, the beauty of you know, virtual. but, ryan's point is absolutely well taken. we will see what else the justice department does, that's all the time we have today. we ryan j. reilly, michael s. schmidt, barbara mcquade thank you all very much for your time. coming up folks, from lavish trips and real estate deals to claims of tuition payments. tonight, a brand-new rep

we know that the justice department is going to be asking for rhodes to be sentenced to 25 years in prison, and so that is by far the largest sentence any january 6th capitol rioter would be facing if the judge amitt m metawants here. but the other side does not want that much, and looking at the arguments in writing and one of the things is that he should be credited for the amount of leadership that he had in the organization for all of these years and obviously now that is an organization that the justice department said led this conspiracy around the violence of the capitol attack on january 6th and not just rhodes, but many, many members of the oath ko oat oathkeepers have been found guilty of those attacks of seditious conspiracy, and also, many, many victims of the capitol riot spoke about how it impacted them, and one of the metropolitan police said that were choosing part to be a group that taunted them and he said that his physical scars have healed, but not the mental scars. so the judge is going to have to be doing some math to figure the amount of sentencing he will give. >> t

that justice department prides itself on being independent, objective, and nonpartisan. f political interference, or even the appearance of it, it really diminishes, i think, the public trust that the department of justice needs to be effective in this mission. >> what do you say to people when they say, always susceptible to the sort of thing? our susceptible to a president politicizing the entire system against individuals? >> well, i think every time we go through one of these we've come a little bit stronger. you know, where the civil rights violations of j edgar hoover, and the monitoring of martin luther king, for example, which led to the church committee, and the formation of some rules, the fisa court for example, to try to make things better. and then we had watergate, and then some efforts to make the department independent. but at the end of the day, the justice department is all about human beings, and so you can have all the rules in the world, but if you don't have people with comply with those rules, there is, i think, some danger that the justice departme

during the trial, prosecutors for the justice department argued that the group was thirsting for violence and organizing for action ahead of the riots at the capitol and were trying to stop the certification of the 2020 election by any means necessary. lawyers for the proud boys, however, tried to cast the blame for their clients' actions on former president trump, who they say sold them a lie. here's what attorney general merrick garland had to say about the convictions on thursday. >> the evidence presented at trial detailed the extent of the violence at the capitol on january 6 and the central role these defendants played in setting into motion the unlawful events of that day today's verdict makes clear that the justice department will do everything in its power to defend the american people and american democracy >> reporter: although the length of time in prison is not yet known, the charges of seditious conspiracy and obstruction carry a maximum sentence of 20 years lawyers for the defendants say they will be appealing this case. >> all right, brie jackson starting us off from washi

the inspector general, the justice department did a 500-page report that came out in late 2019, and thatne told us a lot of these findings that durham is now confirming, frankly. one of the reasons why durham was brought on board was supposedly to go beyond what the inspector general of the justice department found in their investigation. one of the things they were supposed to do was to tell us a lot about what the intelligence community was doing. it turns out they didn't find much there in the intelligence community, and certainly not to support the suspicions that they had that there was a cabal of people from the fbi and the intelligence community who were out to get donald trump. that appears to have fallen flat as part of this investigation. look, there's a lot in here that should make the fbi have to come back and answer some more questions including some of the changes that they said they've made to make sure something like this never happens again. but the bottom line from what we see here at the end of a four-year investigation really doesn't tell us a hell of a lot more than

and i met yesterday with the associate attorney general about a department of justice investigation onmonths. i don't have any details just yet. but i think this is very important. this is going to lead us to ideally an outside look on what happened that day and ultimately how do we prevent it from happening again. the other part of it, too, i ag agree with the president. the congress has a role to play. the president also has a role to play. i'm less interested in blaming other folks and more interested in working with folks to get legislation done. i'm a republican. i believe in protecting the constitution. i think we can do both that and protect our children in schools. >> so you have supported some gun safety legislation such as the bipartisan safer community act. according to the gun violence archive, there have already been 241 mass shootings in the united states just this year. 241. does more need to be done to stop it? seems like the very obvious place to do it is to try to keep people who are obviously risk, at risk of harming themselves or others from being able to obtain wea

>> well, you know, i think there's a little bit of a picture here that the justice department paintsis indictment. there's still more, and by the way, it's clear from the justice department that they're still investigating him. there may be additional charges that could be brought here. keep in mind, these charges relate largely, the campaign finance picture that we see here is only from things that happened in 2022. so we know that they've been examining some of his earlier financial disclosures and that is still in process, but one of the things that emerges is back in 2020 it appears that he is understating what his -- what his income was according to this indictment. he talks about having only bonuses totaling about $55,000 according to this indictment, but then you skip forward to the 2022 campaign, the later campaign and according to this, you know, the justice department says that he essentially overstated it, at the time part of the congressman's public persona was that he was this rich guy, that -- again, he had constructed this elaborate story of how he had all this income

conviction of enrique tarrio in particular could be the most consequential win yet for the justice department. we'll explain that in a moment. joining us now from outside the u.s. district court house in washington, d.c. is nbc news justice report ryan reilly. we got a little bit of breaking news, additional partial verdict. walk us through it. >> reporter: that's right. any moment now, i think we could be hearing from the jury on the additional charge. it also sounds like they are deadlocked on the other outstanding charges. this might be it for the jury potentially, unless there is another instruction to keep giving it a go. it seems like they have hit pretty much a breaking point on some of these charges. they reached one verdict at least out of these outstanding charges. big picture here, all of these are minor details because the take away from this is that four members of the proud boys were convicted of seditious conspiracy. the fifth member of the proud boys who was not convicted yet of seditious conspiracy is dominic pezzola. he was convicted of additional charges, felony charges tha

washington correspondent reshad hudson has more. >> the justice department is taking strong action toown on drug traffickers operating online. you can try to hide in the for this reaches of the internet, but the justice department will find you and hold you accountable for your crimes in an international operation lasting 2 years. attorney general merrick garland says 288 arrests were made and law enforcement sees over 53 million dollars in cash and crypto. this represents the most fun season. the highest number of arrests in any coordinated international action led by the justice department. in one case, garland said a florida man was sentenced to 16 years in prison for selling fentanyl, heroin and meth to more than 6,000 darknet customers. the drug traffickers are confident that by operating anonymously on the dark web, they can operate outside the bounds of the law. operations like these are part of the biden administration's response to the 100,000 plus americans who died in 2021. from preventable drug overdoses. it is also a public health and safety imperative. >> fbi deputy dire

the department of justice, just as rudy giuliani said that he wanted to avoid it. there have also been reports about just how sketchy the market for pardons was in trump 's final days, with trump's allies collecting fees from wealthy felons or their associates to push the right white house for clemency. in, fact the new york times reported contemporaneously in january of 2021 that a former cia officer -- disclosing and i did -- told, that get, this rudy giuliani, and i quote, could help him secure a pardon for $2 million. nothing else, the allegations put forth in this lawsuit certainly seem to require some additional investigation. it seems to me, but what do i, know the justice department should be probing what's going down in the final days of the trump administration, particularly on the pardon subject. it is clearly, even by the standards of those four long years, a low point. michael schmidt is the washington correspondent of the new york times the reported in the shadow market of donald trump in 2021, and andrew weizmann spent years working in the department

the department of justice described mr. tar owe coming into a documentrio coming into a document we learned inn recent cay tarrio met. >> there's much really respect there. we're fighting the same fight. >> the investigation revealed it was individuals associated with the proud boys who instigated the initial breach at 12:53 p.m. >> it was, again, sort of the biggest gifts to the public's ability to understand something that's protected as part of a criminal proceeding, but pick up on carol's point, the committee developed evidence that it was the presidential detail feeding information to the white house about the specific types of weapons that trump supporters were armed with. on that pathway, it can't be drubed as other than that. to advance trump to the capitol, to be there for all of that. how much was unanswered in terms of 9 limits the committee faced and a lack of access to all of trump's phone records? >> it was a big challenge. we don't have grand jury subpoena power. it's a congressional subpoena. normally it's a

i'm grateful to the justice department's medal of valor review board, bureau of justice assistance andrograms for their review and recommendations of this year's recipients and i'm honored to be here alongside president biden as he confers these awards. the nine individuals we recognized today have demonstrated, quote, extraordinary valor above and beyond the call of duty while acting to save or protect another person's life. they have acted with great courage and at great risk to themselves. they have shown uncommon decisiveness and presence of mind. two of them made the ultimate sacrifice, giving their lives in service to their communities. to the families and loved ones of detectives wilbert maura and jason rivera, we know it is impossible to understand the grief that you endure or to fully comprehend your loss. you have our deepest condolences and our unending gratitude. through our work to keep our community safe, we will honor the legacies of detectives maura and rivera. [applause] >> and to all the family members and loved ones with us today, thank you for supporting these heroe