o donnell: tonight s other top headlines: how long the socialite who help jeffrey epstein abuse young girls will face behind bars. plus the rush on the morning after pill after the supreme court abortion ruling. and the new details in the deadly migrant tragedy in texas. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us on this busy tuesday night. as we detail for you the bombshell testimony today in the january 6 hearing. history is important. during the watergate hearings 50 years ago, there was only one surprise witness. it was alexander butterfield, who revealed there was a white house taping system. hea well, in the january 6 hearings, the surprise witness is cassidy hutchinson. then-chief of staff mark meadows top aide described the then-president s fits of rage, that included throwing plates of food, grabbing the steering wheel of th
heard he doesn t think they re doing anything wrong. the stunning details of an out of president, who wanted to join the mob. the president said something to the effect of, i am that i think president, take me up to the capitol now. the president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. mr. engel grabbed his arm, and said, sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel. we are going back to the west wing. we re not going to the capitol. the president of the united states is chief of staff, his closest advisers, preparing for the violence, and then, trying to save themselves. i recall hearing the word, oath keepers. and hearing the word, proud boys, closer to the plan of the january 6th rally, with mr. giuliani s. white house chief of staff mark meadows, did he ever indicate that he was interested in receiving a presidential pardon related to january 6th? yes, ma am. tonight, one of the members of the january 6th investig
i think, i didn t care that they have weapons. they re not here to hurt me. i remember him saying to the effect of, mark needs to do something more, literally calling the vice president and mark responded something to the effect of, you heard, he doesn t think they re doing anything wrong. the stunning details of an out of touch president, who wanted to join the mob. the president said something to the effect of, i am the effing think president, take me up to the capitol now. the president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. mr. engel grabbed his arm, and said, sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel. we are going back to the west wing. we re not going to the capitol. the president of the united states, his chief of staff, his closest advisers, preparing for the violence, and then, trying to save themselves. i recall hearing the word, oath keepers. and hearing the word, proud boys, closer to the plan of the janua
versus 16 grams in ensure high protein. boost® high protein also has key nutrients for immune support. boost® high protein. good afternoon. i m chris jansing at msnbc headquarters in new york city. we re still working on getting a full picture of the impact of cassidy hutchinson s bombshell testimony even a full 24 hours after she spoke. but there s no question it s the closest we ve gotten to seeing a direct line from former president trump to the violence at the capitol on january 6th and it does raise new questions about if and when the justice department might decide to get involved. the headline in the conservative national review said the system was, quote, devastating, and argued that things will not be the same after this. i overheard the president say something to the effect of, i don t care that they have weapons, they re not here to hurt me, take the effing mags away. i remember saying something to the effect of, mark, we need to do something more, they re
the question of lost or erased secret service text messages from january 5th and january 6th. joining me now, cnn senior justin spore tore spawn at george perez and attorney george conway. gentlemen, thanks for joining us. evan i m gonna start with you for the reporting. i need to ask you about this d.c. police officer backing up cassidy hutchinson testimony. what do we know? yet on, this could be really important testimony from someone who was there that day. this is a metropolitan police officer who was part of the motorcade and who has now given an interview to the january 6th committee and this is reported from jamie gangel and annie greer. what they are telling us, essentially, is that the police officer was able to corroborate at least some of what cassidy hutchinson has provided testimony to in the january six committee. obviously, there s been a lot of pushback from some of the people in the secret service, some of it on background, some of it on the record, claimin