of this city. hundreds upon hundreds of people have turned out to give this last farewell. life from our worlds, orbiting stars, far beyond our own. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it is tuesday, july 12, 9:00 a.m. here in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where the house committee investigating the capitol hill riot is set for its seventh hearing looking to draw connections between former president trump s role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election and his knowledge of the violent attack that would take place on the u.s. capitol. the bipartisan group of lawmakers have already interviewed several people and today s hearing will likely vofl excerpts from the deposition of pat cipollone. and we also expect to hear from steven ayers, who entered the capitol illegally and later pleaded guilty. he is one of at least two witnesses expected to testify later today. the big focus will be on how extremist groups like the proud boys and oath keepers ma
that hide behind phony claims of privilege or hide because they feel that they can get away with it i think will be damned by history. we re ready to face threats of russian aggression because quite frankly, there is no choice. in light of the log progress the progress we ve together, we support them joining nato. pretty big win for president biden saying the enlargement of that i to is exactly the opposite of what president putin wanted to see. we begin with a remarkable string of revelations in washington. the committee investigating the january 6 riots has presented new damning testimony offering crucial details about president trump s actions in the lead up to and during the attack on the capitol. cassidy hutchinson, a former aide to mark meadows gave her account of the conversations inside the trump white house that day describing just how much trump and his aides knew about the riots and what trump did or didn t do to stop the violence unfolding that day. ryan n
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
would be willing to testify but only in a live public setting, prosecutors believe it is a stunt, but a federal judge declined a request to postpone his trial for next week. i expect that we ll be hearing from him and there are many questions that we have for him. reporter: the committee has a bevy of new information, among the biggest headlines that trump and his allies were made fully aware that there was no evidence that the election was stolen. i didn t think that it was honest or professional. reporter: trump knew he lost the election but kept telling his supporters he won without evidence to back it up. the campaign extended all the way to the states where trump personally pressured officials to help his effort. you re asking me do something against my oath and i will not break my oath. reporter: the committee also revealing that trump knew his supporters were armed and planning to be violent, but he directed them to the capitol anyway. overheard the president say s
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 supporters at the capitol, a move the lead secret service agent vetoed for obvious security reasons but to his own detriment. president said something to the effect of i m the fing president, take me up to the capitol now. so which bobby responded sir, we have to go back to the west wing. the president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. mr. engel grabbed his arm, said, sir, you need to take your hand