visitors. capitol police say they did not have congressional ids and were not authorized to be walking around without an escort. they were booked and they spent the night in jail. congressional sources tell us they were filming a skit on the january 6th hearings and were banging on the doors of offices people like kevin mccarthy, jim jordan, republicans, you know the deal. one of the individuals robert smigle was pictured when he was in the capitol yesterday. smigle who is a comedian appeared on the colbert show several times as you can see here. the name of the others on capitol hill from the show are jake plunkett, allison martinez, tyrone dean, steven roman, nicolett that green, brendan hurley, josh comers and david feldman. i want to point out these were not low level people working for colbert. we can confirm jake plunkett is a senior producer and director at the show. josh comers is a writer. allison martinez is an associate producer. who let them into the capitol rout
possibly a crime. they knew, and according to a testimony today, they do it anyway. and the testament knew that. he also in new in realtime that the actions that he was taking, or about to take with his 2:24 pm tweet the he had been told exactly how that it was at the capitol. although the presidents chief of staff, mark meadows, is refusing to testify before the committee. mr. meadows aid, ben williamson, and white house press secretary, sarah matthews, testified that mr. meadows went to the dining room near the oval office to tell the president about the violence of the capitol before the president s 2:24 pm tweet. it was clear that it was escalating, and escalating quickly. [noise] so then, when that we, than mike pence s tweet was sent out. i remember saying that that was the last thing that needs to be tweeted at that moment. pete aguilar says the committee s investigation shows that immediately after that tweet, the crowd in the capitol search. two minutes lat
for nearly five hours as rioters overwhelmed the capitol, looking, chanting, to hang him. we were told they came within 40 feet of the vice president s evacuation route and we re also learning new details about a heated phone call between trump and pence on that morning of january 6th. this is what witnesses include ing ivanka said about trump s demeanor on the call. i remember hearing the word wimp, he called him a wimp, i don t remember, he said, you are a wimp, you ll be a wimp. it was a different tone than i d heard him take with the vice president before. also a major new piece of evidence revealed by the committee, john eastman, the conservative lawyer central to the plans to overturn the election results asked for a pardon after january 6th. and new this morning, the new york times obtained a copy of a letter sent by the house select committee to ginni thomas, the way of supreme court justice clarence thomas. they want to speak to her next month. they have emai
rioters. as trump pressured him to stop the vote certification of the 2020 election. it was a move trump knew was illegal as several witnesses revealed just yesterday. let s get to cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez. what more are you learning about next week s hearing? well, the committee, the january 6th committee is trying to nail down the list of witnesses that they have from the former justice department, former justice department officials under former president trump. and right now we know that they have slated they were key in standing up to the president. he was trying to essentially use the justice department to endorse his claims that there was vote fraud, and in the end, to try to overturn the election results. one witness that we don t know we know the committee was looking for, and it appears will not be showing up is pat sip pat cipollone. it would have been unusual to see a former white house counsel sitting before this committee. it appears
away from 20% of the highs, definition of a bear market. welcome. i m neil cavuto. this is your world. it was a selling world all this week amid concerns that inflation is rocketing, the fed is hiking rates and the economy could be slowing dramatically. its been so weird this week. because remember the reaction the markets had to news that jerome powell at the federal reserve was going to start aggressively hiking interest rates. a 75 basis point hike earlier this week. the highest since a fellow named bill clinton was in the oval office in 1994. that was then. concerns that he will have to do more of that right now. doesn t jackie deangelis know it. taking a look at the week that is now done. jackie? good afternoon, neil. even with this mixed picture at the close today, it was a sell button dominated wall street week. take a look at the major three averages. it was a sea of red. year to date, the markets have been pummeled. the dow and the s&p 50 oh sorry. the nasdaq a