Rachel Maddow: “The Russian government is using language like that to threaten people not to protest.”

This group is a renamed version of one of the white nationalist groups that took part in the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville in 2017.

To whatever extent the Donald Trump White House was trying to use those paramilitary groups to their purpose, trying to use them as a physical force that will be need to physically blocked a finalization of the election results.

That feels worse than bad, no matter who replaces them. That feels indefensible, and I do not defend it.

The chairman of the January 6th committee says that the upcoming hearings, witnesses will describe conversations between these paramilitary groups that led the breach of the capitol and people in the orbit of that President Trump.