insurrection, privy to nearly every major decision leading up to and during that day. according to the testimony of cassidy hutchinson, his top aide, meadows appears to have been at the center of the scheme to overturn the election. the 26-year-old, cassidy hutchinson, was brave enough, patriotic enough, to come forward. 62-year-old mark meadows is not. just a refresher, here s some of what we learned from ms. hutchinson about mr. meadows, something the committee would want to ask him about if he had the courage or decency to talk. i remember leaning against the hallway and said, i had an interesting conversation. it sounds like we re going to the capitol. he said something to the effect of, there s a lot going on, guys. but i don t know, things might get real, real bad on january 6th. do you know if mr. meadows ever intended to go to the willard hotel on the night of the 5th? i had made it clear to mr. meadows that i didn t believe it was a smart idea for him to go to
january 6th. an omnipresent person there. he was involved or present during many of the moments that cassidy hutchison described in her testimony, including this moment. i saw mr. cipollone right before i walked out that morning, and he said something to the effect of, please make sure we don t go up to the capitol, cassidy. keep in touch with me. we re going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen. manu raju is outfront live on capitol hill. you heard her recount her conversation with pat cipollone. so this subpoena, obviously significant. what are you learning about it? reporter: this subpoena sent today, demanding that he appear before this committee, saying that they have spoken to him in an informal basis, acknowledging that it did happen on april 13th, but now wanting his testimony, especially in light of all the new information that s come out. one of the big things that has come out through the course of these hearings and th
knew to be armed to the seat of that democracy then agreed allegedly with member of the mob who were crying out that his vice president mike pence should be hanged. from the beginning to end today what former white house staffer cassidy hitchenson testified she heard and saw. as never been said publicly before. and some of it has never been considered imaginable before in a president of the united states. she testified in person and previously on tape the crowds were gathering for the rally he wanted metal detecters outside taken away. had knew some who tried to get through already had been armed. part of the conversation i was in the vicinity of a conversation whether i overheard the president say something to the effect of i don t care they have weapons. they re not here to hurt me. take the fing bags away. let me people in they can march the capitol from here. let the people here. take the mags away. just to be clear, is it your understanding that the president wante
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
Im Erin Burnett In Israel alongside My Friend John Berman in new york. The head of the Israeli Defense forces told his commanders tonight that, quote, well enter the gaza strip. Not a question. A definitive statement. A spokesperson for the idf saying they are increasing airstres to gaza to minimize risk to troops for the next stage of the war. Theyve been running on some days at more than 200 strikes and theyll increase that number. They saw dozens of tanks, personnel, carriers, as well as bulldozers massed at the border. And weve seen those bulldozers, massive military ones designed for an urban incursion they will be facing. This video represents just one of several grouping thats our team witnessed. Altogether, cnn saw hundreds of tanks and Armored Vehicles. This comes as the World Health Organization warns that the limited amount of supplies allowed to cross into gaza from egypt today is not enough. It was about 20 trucks. They say they need about 100 every day. The Director Gener