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. i overheard the president say something to the effect of, you know, i don t fing care that they have weapons. they are not here to hurt me, take it away. they are not here who hurt me. and she testified about trump s determination to join his su
border of ukraine and he brought in the finnish president and suggested to this that this might be a good idea. and so the talks and discussions progressed over the next several months after the invasion occurred, nato and sweden formally made the application. but underneath all of this were the objections from turkey, from the turkish president erdogan who had exposed nato expansion. he threw up road blocks that had frustrated european and american officials. talks continued really the last several months or so and really ramped up in the last several days. very important phone call took place yesterday morning between president biden and president erdogan in which president biden told his counterpart that if this deal could be struck before this nato summit began, it would be possible for the two of them to meet formally, bilaterally on the margins of that summit so that did appear to help push it over the finish line. yesterday after the president had met with the king of spain, he