good evening, we begin tonight with two developments into the january 6th investigation. the first concerns john eastman, the trump lawyer who cooked up the scheme to overturn the election. the one that former white house attorney eric harshman told to quote, get a great criminal defense lawyer. we learned tonight that the fbi has seized his phone. eastman did nothing to dispel suspicion when he went before the select committee, took the fifth over and over again. i assert my fifth amendment right to being compelled to be a witness against myself. did the trump legal team ask you to prefer a memorandum regarding the vice president s role in the counting of electoral votes in joint sessions of congress, 26, 2021? doctor eastman, did you advise the president of the united states that the vice president could reject electors from seven states and declare that the president had been reelected? fifth. doctor eastman, the first sentence of the memo start off by saying tha
familiar with his testimony. on tuesday, cassidy luchinson testified he told and lunged add at secret service member when he have told he couldn t go to the capitol himself. what more committee vice chair liz cheney announced they were asking their reasons regularly if anyone was trying to influence testimony and cheney laid out two witnesses said yes. they received calls from someone they knew trying to impact their testimony. one of these people on the receiving end was cassidy hutchinson. we are able to report this is confirming a punch bowl news story yesterday. she s now the star witness who revealed shocking details of complacency on january 6th despite the violence today. the legal risk for trump related to january 6th. more about the calls. the committee has not said who the calls came from with one going to hutchinson. here is one of the quotes, the witness said the caller talked about being a team player. they knew i m on the right team. i m doing the right thing.
they just decided to do it. they are worried about security? they recently obtained evidence. what does the committee know now that they didn t know before? meanwhile, the doj investigation is heating up to. the lawyer that told then president trump that michael parents can block the election, spoiler alert, they could not. the lawyer, john eastman says, they sees his phone and got access to his account. here is a video. it happened the same day the day rated joseph clark s home. more to come on all of that. plus, chaos on the views of all of this country. in the wake of the roe v wade reversal, the latest, south carolina. a federal judge allowing the state to ban abortions beginning around six weeks. that makes at least 10 states that will band or have severe restrictions. another fort teen were banned with certain or likely. nearly half of this country, a right that americans have had for almost 50 years, is vanishing. outrage is growing over a court that seems to be ou
big day, unexpected and significant? absolutely. cassidy hutchinson has long been considered one of the most consequential witnesses for the january 6th committee due to her approximatety to trump many chief of staff mark meadows and therefore to critical events and conversations surrounding january 6. now, the committee has not released the topic of today s hearing, but the rush to get the hearing happening today shows just how important they believe this testimony could be. her testimony has rattled capitol hill. are you aware of any reporter: once a top aide to former white house chief of staff mark meadows, cassidy hutchinson is now a key witness in the house january 6 investigation. giving hours of testimony in multiple sessions. mr. gaetz and mr. brooks, and a handful of members that weren t at the december 21st meeting asked for preemptive pardons. mr. gaetz did. reporter: at times surfing a. hutchinson s accuracy proving critical. you hear those at the w
had yesterday, and don t have today. we are going to continue to follow these protests all across the country this evening, so make sure you stay tuned in the coming hours here on cnn. look at this map. 13 states already have trigger laws that would pan ban apportion. at least six wept into effect as soon as the supreme court struck down roe. the rest, in a matter of days or weeks and at least one justice would like this to go forgoter, justice clarence thomas writing quote in future cases, we should consider all this court substantive due process precedence, including griswold, lawrence, and obergefeld. that means a court a court that says there is no right to abortion could also take away more rights, like the right to birth control, the right to same-sex relationships, the right of gay couples to get married. tonight, i am going to talk to the plaintiff in the land mark case that legalized gay marriage that is coming up later in this program. but listen to what the jus