cassidy hutchinson. her two hour blockbuster appearance before the january 6 committee included testimony that the former president and top aides were warned that some supporters at the elipse were armed with weapons like knives, guns, bear spray, tasers. hutchinson had a unique vantage point critical to conversations never revealed before yesterday. she said that trump grew irate that the security screenings on january 6 were apparently deterring his supporters, his armed supporters, from joining the crowd. so furious that he ordered his aides to have the metal de detectors removed. another leading reason, likely the primary reason, is because he wanted it full and he was angry that we weren t letting people through with weapons.
capitol hill in many years. it was very revealing about that day. this is a witness who had direct contact with the major players, including being right there next to the former president as he s president on that day, january 6th on the elipse. she quotes him saying to get rid of the magnetometers and let the people with weapons, that the secret service was concerned about through because he wanted to fill up the area. he said that they could all march to capitol hill. obviously there s a lot of focus and the committee s focused on pointing to what the president said about you need to fight like hell for your country. they haven t played the sound bite where he says you re going to march peacefully and patriotically to the capitol. but the description, neil, of
to march on the capitol onjan 6th, they knew days before of the potential for violence. and ahead of the speech on the elipse that day, the president was told his supporters, who trying to get into the rally, were armed some of them with semi automatic weapons. i don t effing care if they have weapons. they aren t here to hurt me, take the effing bags away. let my people in. they can march to the capitalfrom here. the president ignored the legal advice from white house council that he should temper the language he used in his speech. he ignored advice that he should return to the west wing after the speech. he was adamant that he would be marching on the capitol with the crowds fully aware they were armed. but in the motorcade, when told by security detail bobby engel, that would not be happening, the president, quite literally, lost the plot. the president said something to the effect of imb effing president, take me up to the capital now. the
through metal detectors known as mags for short. the select committee has learned people who willingly entered the enclosed area for president trump s speech were screened so they could attend the rally. they had weapons and other items confiscated. pepper spray, knives, brass knuckles, tassers, body armor, gas masks, batons, blunt weapons. those were just from the people who chose to go through the security for the president s event on the elipse, not the several thousand members who refused to go through the mags and watched from the washington monument. select committee has learned from reports from outside the magnotomerteres, and police radio transmission identifying people with firearms, including ar-15s on the morning of january 6th. let s listen.
this is your world. growing questions about the tick tok on what is now seems like some over-the-top accusations about the former president and what he was doing and saying even in ruckus with his secret service on that fateful day. let s get the latest from aishah hasnie. hi, neil. the former president was apparently watching and reacting almost in real time. we ll get to that in a second. first, to this dramatic testimony from cassidy hutchison. she first told the committee that she felt scared and nervous about what could happen on january 6 when her former boss, mark meadows told her that things could get bad. they could go down hill. some key moment to take away from the hearing. she said the president was upset. you heard it here. the elipse where he was supposed to speak january 6, it wasn t completely full of his