move now. if we lose any more time, we may lose the ability to to leave. so forget to leave, we need to do it now. we ve gained access to the second floor and i ve got people about five feet for me here below. they are on the second floor, moving it now. we may want to consider getting out, leaving now. copy? we will make our way. rippey,. we need to make our way to the . six officers between us and the people that are 5 to 10 feet people away. i m going down to evaluate, we have a clear shot if we move quickly. we ve got smoke downstairs, unknown smoke downstairs. by the protesters. is that compromised? we have secure. however, we have some protesters that are being compete contained. they re in smoke, unknown what kind of smoke it is. copy. clear, we re coming out now, all right. make the way. we saw that video, remember, the vice president of men taking them out of the video that s been shown since the beginning. that though, is several former tru
these talks are happening as russia carried out yet one more brutal attack on civilians in ukraine. european allies accusing russia of a war crime for a missile attack on a shopping mall that killed at least 18 people. many more, poppy, missing this morning. absolutely devastating. we re also here in the united states following major developments in the january 6th investigation. in just a few hours, a surprise hearing on capitol hill. the january 6th committee will hear live testimony from cassidy hutchinson, aide to former white house chief of staff mark meadows and sources tell us that concerns for hutchinson s security are the reason this panel has been so secretive about her appearance. we just learned about it late yesterday. let s begin this hour with cnn national correspondent kristen holmes. good morning. what more can you tell us about the scope of hitchutchinson s testimony today, she already testified behind closed doors, but clearly they want more answers in
Committee laying out damning new evidence and testimony detailing how the then president refused to do anything for more than three hours as armed rioters attacked our capital. i want to bring in cnn political commentator scott jennings. national security analyst julie it can, legal analysts with an s eliot morgan s and jennifer rogers. good evening, we need you guys tonight. we need you guys more than anything. we need you guys as well, sorry. [laughs] she looked at me like, wait a minute. i m so glad you guys are all here. scott, one of the most shocking moments from tonight s hearing was when the secret service radio when it talks about pence s detail. as a scramble to get him into a secure location, listen and then we ll talk. oh there in the building. we re moving, we need to
But think about the outtakes of his january 7th speech. that showed a lot about trump s inner self. that he didn t want us to see. let me ask you something, if you look at the testimony from hutchinson to cipollone and the witnesses we heard from tonight, is any of this rise to the level of the sort of john dean famous testimony. absolutely. cassidy hutchinson. oh my god. cassidy hutchinson was a game-changer. she should ve been in primetime. yeah, i think so. here s the deal. what we didn t know when we had the second impeachment, when we all watched the second impeachment of the trial, is what was going on inside the white house. she brought us, not only inside the white house, but she put pressure on people like cipollone and others to talk. cipollone had to talk, he didn t say as much as he could have, but he had to talk, because the impression she gave of what was going on in the white house, was a massive culpability. these were folks that knew that violence was happening
Consequences? just want to be clear. absolutely. that s the only type of accountability that i m looking for. he broke the law, he should suffer the consequences of breaking the law. do you think even members of congress who you are protecting that day, our elected officials, do you put them in that same category? absolutely. it s clear to me, that there were members of congress who were aiding and abetting in this seditious conspiracy. mike, i want to ask you about sergeant mark robinson and retired member of the metropolitan police department who you know testified to the committee that trump was adamant about going to the capitol. he was part of trump s motorcade that day. what did you think of his testimony? i thought it was compelling. i knew mark, he was actually my class officer way back when. before he was promoted to sergeant. but i ve always known him to be