growing chaos, confusion, and consequences for women and for health care providers. and russia unleashes a deadly strike on a crowded mall in ukraine. president zelenskyy is now condemning it as a reckless act of terror. this as president biden and g-7 allies are reaffirming their unity with ukraine and against vladimir putin s aggression. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. first, let s get straight to the capitol hill and melanie zanona. the january 6th select committee says newly obtained evidence is prompting tomorrow s hearing on very, very short notice. so what do we know? well, wolf, it is still a bit of a mystery here. the select committee has only promised new evidence and new witness testimony. but if we re reading between the lines, it is clear that the select committee feels like it s uncovered new evidence that is so urgent and so important that they decided to thro
explosive testimony today about what trump and those closest to him new heading into the insurrection. in a to the former white house chief of staff mark meadows publicly testifying trump was told his supporters were armed but said they are not hurt t here to hurt me. ryan nobles has more now. from the moment she was sworn in, cassidy hutchison, former aide to trump white house chief of staff mark meadows made it clear she had much to share. that was the first moment that i remember feeling scared and nervous for what could happen on january 6. providing unique insight into a chaotic white house in the days leading up to january 6th and a president who cheered on the riders and she says she was told, desperately wanted to be with them. he said something to the effect of i am the effingham president, take me to the capital now. he reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab the steering wheel. mr. ingle grabbed his arm and said you need to take your hand off
and 51 people dead in the back of the truck in sweltering heat and it happened in the united states of america. let s go outfront. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, a transformative moment in what was some of the most explosive moment in the january 6th hearing to see date. cassidy hutchinson, former top aide to trump s chief of staff mark meadows laid bare just how much trump wanted the crowd to march to the capitol, knowing they were armed, knowing his rally could turn violent. here she is talking about the warning from top white house aide tony ornato. i remember mr. ornato had talked about intelligence reports, coming in and saying we had intel reports saying there could potentially be violence on the 6th. remember tony mentioning knives, guns, in the form of pistols and rifles. bear spray, body armor, spears and flagpoles. spears were one item, flag poles were one item, tony, then relayed something to the effect of and these effing people fastening spears on to
blackmail. high crimes against the very structure of our constitutional state. the nixon team receives an overwhelming mandate from the american voters sweeping every state but one, massachusetts. as a result of the cover-up, richard nixon stayed in office a lot longer than he should have, but imagine if the american people had known in the summer of 1972 the extent to which richard nixon had participated in criminal enterprises. it s not just a desire for political power. it s a lust. i mean, that s what nixon said. i lust for power. the man in the middle in the watergate scandal. it s 34-year-old john wesley dean iii. i thought the cover-up was going to end after the election. i was wrong. i had no prior knowledge of the watergate break-in. it s going to get worse, much worse. seven men went on trial today in a washington federal court charged with the break-in and burglary of democratic national headquarters in the water building last june. the white ho
political processes in the years to come, long after i have left this office. i looked at my own calendar this morning as i was working on this speech. it showed exactly 1361 days remaining in my term. i want these to be the best days in america s history. god bless america, and god bless each and every one of you. central to the problems faced by president nixon is the watergate tapes and their tangled history. fred graham traces that story. it all began suddenly when an obscure former white house official named alexander butterfield appeared as a surprise witness before the senate watergate committee. are you aware of the installation of any listening devices in the oval office of the president? i was aware of listening devices, yes, sir. when i got the confirmation that there was a taping system, i was elated. they would tell much more than i could even remember about what had happened in those conversations. my mind is not a tape recorder. it does recall im