prosecution down the line for proof of his criminal intent. and i will be interested in these outtakes because cassidy hutchinson said that there were several lines that didn t make it in there about prosecuting the rioters or calling them violent. you have all convinced me that the outtakes will be really worth watching and potentially interesting with potential legal implications. now i really do want to see what they show. there may be two audiences here for the january 6th committee there s the american people, clearly all of us watching that s why they re putting it in primetime but they do seem to be focusing their arguments in a way that the justice department whether federal prosecutors or merrick garland can see and say, hey, this is a legal case we can or should be making. merrick garland has been pressed on this by people speaking out and by reporters speaking to him about where he is on the idea of potentially prosecuting a former president of the united states. listen
wimp either he called him a wimp, i don t remember if he said you are a wimp, you will be a wimp. it was a different tone than i had heard him take with the vice president before. do you remember what she said, her father called him? the p word. reporter: earlier that morning the white house had learned that people arriving at trump s rally were armed. they had glock-style pistols in their waist bands. reporter: chief of staff mark meadows aide cassidy hutchinson testified tony ornato briefed the president and meadows separately about the weapons. the rally at the ellipse goes on as planned with many of trump s most loyal associates igniting the crowd. let s have trial by combat. reporter: trump watching from back stage and allows medical detectors to be removed to allow more of his supporters to attend. i overheard the president say something to the effect of i don t care if they have weapons,
they re not here to hurt me, taking. the effing mags away. reporter: at noon trump takes the stage. we re going to walk down to the capitol. you will never take back our country with weakness. you have to show strength. reporter: while he speaks problepro trump rioters including the proud boys overrun the first set of barriers outside the capitol. at 1:10 trump s speech concludes and house minority leader kevin mccarthy warns hutchinson that trump should not come at the capitol. he just said it on stage, cassidy, figure it out. don t come up here. reporter: nine minutes later trump arrives at the white house, apparently enraged the secret service refused to take him to the capitol. the president reached up toward the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel, mr. engel grabbed him arm, said,
especially in the wake of the testimony from aide cassidy hutchinson who testified that president trump not only was frustrated and irate at his secret service agents but actually physically attacked one, a testimony that some sources have disputed but so far we have no evidence to the contrary and no witnesses have come to the committee to contra. and so the texts and what would be on their phone that woshould have been preserved, not being available to them for the reasons of a routine die ata transfer is horrible optics. alejandro mayorkas said this was a long standing data transfer and that the issue was that it was presided over or charged to individual agent to the preserve the data, that they deemed important for national security reasons. that is not something that the office of the inspector general
to disclose the testimony. let me just say this, i think he did provide important insights on those subjects. former mark meadows aide cassidy hutchinson said cipollone said something along the lines, they would be charged with every crime imaginable if trump went up to the capitol. two sources told cnn that the committee did not ask pat cipollone whether he said that. is that true? if so, why wouldn t you ask him that? we never call in witnesses to corroborate other witnesses or to give their reaction to other witnesses. but i will say that he did interview with us for eight hours and provide very insightful information. and that augments and certainly does not dispute miss hutchinson s testimony. so, stay tuned for this week s hearings. we think they ll be worth attending.