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Speaker 1: This is Bloomberg Law with June Brusso from Bloomberg Radio.

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Speaker 1: Texas militia member was the first to go to trial

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Speaker 1: in the January six insurrection. Prosecutors said that guy Refit

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Speaker 1: quote lit the fire of the very first group of

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Speaker 1: rioters that breached the Capitol, and they not only had

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Speaker 1: photos of him storming the Capitol, they had video from

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Speaker 1: his own helmet camera. Refit had the sad distinction of

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Speaker 1: being turned in by his own teenage son, Jackson. Reffit

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Speaker 1: told CNN his father had threatened him and his sister

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Speaker 1: as it became clear that law enforcement was hunting down rioters.

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Speaker 1: He said to choose a side or die, and if

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Speaker 1: I chose a certain side, I would cross a line

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Speaker 1: and he would do something he didn't want to do.

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Speaker 1: The jury took less than four hours to convict Refit

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Speaker 1: of all charges, including obstruction of Congress, a crucial victory

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Speaker 1: for the Johnstice Department. Joining me is Eric Larson, a

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Speaker 1: Bloomberg legal reporter who covered the trial. Eric tell us

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Speaker 1: what the charges against Refit were so. Mr ruff It

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Speaker 1: was accused of basically leading the first crowd of writers

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Speaker 1: that went up the steps of the terrorism and eventually

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Speaker 1: broke into the capitol, so they claimed that he really

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Speaker 1: led them on, egged them on, encouraged them to more

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Speaker 1: forcefully confront the police, which they did. They also claimed

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Speaker 1: that he was armed with a pistol a loaded gun

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Speaker 1: at the time, and that he had traveled to Washington

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Speaker 1: from Texas with an a R fifteen as well, which

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Speaker 1: he had left in his hotel room. So they claimed

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Speaker 1: that he went there prepared for battle and prepared to fight,

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Speaker 1: and that that is what he did. Was there a

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Speaker 1: reason why he was tried? First of all the January

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Speaker 1: six rioters, not that I'm aware of. You know, more

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Speaker 1: than seven hundred and fifty people have been charged, only

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Speaker 1: around two hundred or so pleaded guilty, So there are

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Speaker 1: hundreds of people who are supposedly going to go to

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Speaker 1: trial here. Um, it just seems that this one sort

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Speaker 1: of trials later this year. I think it was just

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Speaker 1: the luck of the draw for him. Let's talk about

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Speaker 1: the prosecution's case, and what was so unusual and telling

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Speaker 1: that's correct. That was a real twist. His then eighteen

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Speaker 1: year old son contacted the FBI, informed him about his

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Speaker 1: father's involvement in the riots, and even went so far

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Speaker 1: let his father speak as he was bragging about all

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Speaker 1: of his activities on January six. So he really went

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Speaker 1: pretty far and trying to help the government. And one

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Speaker 1: of his reasons for doing so is that at one point,

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Speaker 1: as his father realized that so many writers were being

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Speaker 1: arrested and charged, he threatened his children to keep them quiets,

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Speaker 1: knowing that they had different political views than he did,

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Speaker 1: and knowing that they had some pretty incriminating information. He

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Speaker 1: told them that speaking with law enforcement would be treason

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Speaker 1: and that traders get shot, as they put it. And

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Speaker 1: some Capital police officers testified, did one breakdown on the stand.

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Speaker 1: There were several who testified, and one in particular, as

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Speaker 1: she was in the command center during the riot, and

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Speaker 1: you know, they have several different commanders and officers in

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Speaker 1: they just realized that there was only so much they

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Speaker 1: for for some of them. Talk about how federal prosecutors

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Speaker 1: evidence they used besides direct testimony, you know, it was

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Speaker 1: really built the case as if someone, you know, in

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Speaker 1: I think that they all did. But they really explained

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Speaker 1: things like this. They showed photographs from Mr. Refit's house

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Speaker 1: But based on the cross examination of the witnesses, the

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Speaker 1: but the jury clearly did not buy that. There was

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Speaker 1: actually an audio recording of Mr. Reffitt in the mob

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Speaker 1: So it really didn't work out with the jury. The

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Speaker 1: on all charges. Was this trial at chest for prosecutors?

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Speaker 1: In some ways? I would say so. I think that

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Speaker 1: especially the obstruction of Congress charge, there has been some

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Speaker 1: I wouldn't say controversy, but some dispute over whether or

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Speaker 1: not Congress was technically in session at the moment that

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Speaker 1: the Capitol was breached, and whether or not, you know,

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Speaker 1: the counting of the certification of the votes qualifies as

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Speaker 1: the kind of legal proceeding that can be obstructed. Sort

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Speaker 1: but he specifically cited that ruling which had come in

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Speaker 1: I think they really wanted to just sew everything up

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Speaker 1: I guess that shows how much the first trial means

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Speaker 1: It's interesting that outside the courthouse after the verdict, wrath

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Speaker 1: It's wife told other defendants not to take a plea deal,

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Speaker 1: We'll see what happens there. So what is he facing

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Speaker 1: when he's sentenced on June? Ay, I know that Jacob

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Speaker 1: was sentenced to more than three years in prison on

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Speaker 1: I think the obstruction charge. Yeah, well, I do know

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Speaker 1: a lot of these maximum sentences, you know, they never

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Speaker 1: So I think the maximum sentence for the obstruction charge

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Speaker 1: sentencing for June eighth, so we'll see if that. That

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Speaker 1: Mr Putin and the oligarch that support him, and measures

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Speaker 1: That's Professor Michael Doyle of Columbia Law School and Columbia

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