I WANT TO WELCOME EVERY ONE TO
THE BEAT.
WE BEGIN WITH BREAKING NEWS.
A JUDGE JUST HANDED OT FIRST
FELON SENTENCE TODAY STEMMING
FROM THE JANUARY 6th
INSURRECTION IN IS ONE OF FIRST
STEPS TO WHAT THE DOJ SAYS IS
KEY.
PALL HODGE KINS WILL BE BEHIND
BARS FOR EIGHT MONTHS WITH MANY
EYES THE FIRST SENTENCES AS A
POTENTIAL PRES DENT FOR THE MANY
CASES TO COME.
THERES HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE
CHARGED IN CONNECTION WITH
JANUARY 6th.
HERE, IS WHAT HE DID IN PLAIN
SIGHT THAT DAY.
PHOTOS AND EVIDENCE IN THE CASE
SAYS HE ILLEGALLY RUSHED THE
SENATE CHAMBERS AND SPORTING A
TRUMP 2020 SHIRT WHILE CARRYING
A TRUMP 2020 FLAG.
A LOOK THE PROSECUTORS SAY HE
HAPPILY SHOWED OFF WHILE POSING
FOR SELFIES TO HIS FRIENDS.
HES NOW A CONVICTED FELON.
HES GOING JAIL MP IN COURT HE
CLAIMED A NAIVETY.
CLAIMING IF HE HAD ANY IDEA THAT
THE PROTEST WOULD ESCALATE HE
WOULD NEF HAVE VENTURED FARTHER
THAN THE SIDEWALK. YOU CAN DECIDE WHETHER TO TAKE
YOU CAN DECIDE WHETHER TO TAKE
THAT AS FACE VALUE.
HE BROKE THE LAW BY TRESPASSING
AND JOINING THE MOB AND SHOWING
ITS DISDAIN FOR THE BLUE LIVES
THAT IT ALSO LIKE TO TALK ABOUT
WHEN CONVENIENT POLITICALLY.
ESCALATION OR NOT, THIS JANUARY
6th RIOTER BRAGGED ABOUT HIS
ACTIONS UNTIL HE GOT BUSTED.
GOING FROM A WANT TO BE VIRAL
TOUGH GUY TO AN APOLOGETIC
CONVICT.
VINCE STAPLES PUT IT OUT, REALLY
SPILLING BLOOD, EVERYBODY TOUGH
UNTIL THEY GOT TO GO AND SEE THE
JUDGE.
THIS MAGA RIOTER WAS NEVER
TOUGH.
CERTAINLY NOT TO DAY OF HIS
FELONY AND NOT TODAY AS CONVICT
HEADED TO JAIL.
LETS GET RIGHT INTO IT.
IM JOINED MY MELISSA MURRAY AND
STAFF WRITER AT THE ATLANTIC.
PROFESSOR, YOUR THOUGHTS ON
FIRST JUST BIG PICTURE, THE
NOTION OF ACCOUNTABLE.
THIS FIRST FELONY SENTENCING.
>> THIS IS ONE THAT WILL BE
WATCHED CLOSELY.
AS YOU MENTIONED IN THE OPENING
THERES A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT
INDIVIDUALS WHO WERE INVOLVED IN
THE INSURRECTION AND AWATSITING
TRIAL.
THEY WILL HAVE LOT OF DECISIONS
BASED ON WHETHER OR NOT TO
PLEADS GUILTY OR TO TAKE THEIR
CHANCES AND FACE TRIAL.
ITS WORTH NOTING AND THE
PROSECUTORS ASK FOR A MUCH
LONGER SENTENCE, 18 MONTHS.
HE GOT EIGHT MONTHS IN PART
BECAUSE HE HAS NO CRIMINAL
HISTORY AND HE PLEADED GUILTY
AND TOOK RESPONSIBILITY FOR HIS
ACTIONS ALMOST IMMEDIATELY.
THERES A LOT GOING ON HERE.
THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT CASE.
I THINK IT WILL SHAPE WHAT WELL
SEE GOING FORWARD AS MORE AND
MORE OF THOSE INVOLVED ARE
BROUGHT TO JUSTICE.
>> YEAH.
I THINK WE HAVE SOMETHING ON
THAT.
DAVID, BEFORE I BRING YOU IN,
LETSS LOOK AT THAT OTHER PART O
THE DEBATE WHETHER THIS JAIL
TERM IS ENOUGH.
THE BIDEN DOJ SOUGHT YEAR AND A
HALF SENTENCE GIVEN HE WAS PART
OF A COLLECTIVE THREAT TO
DEMOCRACY.
HIS DEFENSE LAWYER HAD THIS
TAKE.
>> I THINK JUDGE MOSS IS A
BRILLIANT JUDGE.
CANCEL CULTURE AND EFB GETSVERYB
GETS UPSET.
WERE SO BUSY CASTING STONES AT
ONE ANOTHER.
I THINK HIS DECISION WAS THAT OF
A BRILLIANT JURIST WHO HAD A
DIFFICULT JOB.
FOR THE RECORD, YOU GUYS SHOULD
GIVE PAUL A BREAK.
>> MANY REJECTING THAT CALL TO
GIVE HIM A BREAK OR ANY OF THE
NATION TO TAKE A BREAK FROM
ACCOUNTABILITY.
LEGALLY NOTHING IN THE CASE TIES
THE HANDS OF JUDGES IN THESE
OTHER CASES.
SOME OF THOSE HAVE MORE SERIOUS
OR VIOLENT CHARGES THAN THIS ONE WHERE THE RULES MIGHT DOUBLE THE
WHERE THE RULES MIGHT DOUBLE THE
JAIL TIME.
>> HE WAS CHARGED WITH
OBSTRUCTING AN OFFICIAL EVENT AT
THE CAPITAL THIS WASNT ABOUT
HARMING OTHER PEOPLE.
IT WASNT ABOUT THE USE OF BRUTE
FORCE AGAINST INDIVIDUALS.
AGAIN, THAT PLAYS INTO THE
NATURE OF THE SENTENCE.
THE FACT HE HAS NO FORMER
CRIMINAL HISTORY PLAYS INTO THE
SENTENCE.
DOES THAT MEAN THAT JUDGE MOSS
IS A BRILLIANT JURIST AS THE
DEFENSE ATTORNEY SAID.
I THINK IT WAS A BRILLIANT
OUTCOME FOR THIS PARTICULAR
DEFENDANT.
I DONT KNOW THAT WE CALL THIS
BRILLIANT.
I THINK FEDERAL JUDGES THE
DECISIONS ALL THE TIME ABOUT HOW
INDIVIDUALS AND THIS WAS A TOUGH
CASE.
WE MAY SEE EASIER CASES.
WE MAY SEE HARDER CASES GOING