i m erin burnett. outfront tonight caught in a lie. new video from the january 6th select committee, sworn testimony from trump s acting defense secretary chris miller contradicts a statement from president trump. he said he personally asked for 20,000 national guard troops to be at the ready ahead of january 6th. this is what the defense secretary told the committee exactly happened. to be crystal clear there was no direct order from president trump to put 20,000 troops on the ready for january 6th, correct? you re correct. there was no order from the president. that shutting down a statement from trump who on june 9th said the unselect committee learned that i as president offered up to 20,000 national guard troops be deployed in d.c. because it was felt the crowd was going to be very large. well, you heard the secretary of defense say he did no such thing. whether 10 or 20,000, he never ordered any. this blatant lie exposed as we learn more from attorney general me
conservatives must focus on the future, closed quote, a not so veiled shot at his former boss, the former president s false claims about the 2020 election. remarkable to have a vice president who served under that president to then challenge him. a spokesman for the former president tells cnn he will use his speech today to focus on law and order. this as the justice department s inquiry into the capitol attack widens. pence s former chief of staff marc short confirmed to cnn he testified before a doj grand jury investigating the january 6th insurrection, making him the highest profile witness known to have testified so far in the criminal investigation. have a listen. our secret service did a phenomenal job that day. and their job was made more complicated candidly by the fact that the capitol had been breached and they wanted to evacuate the vice president, but it has been covered the vice president didn t want the image of a 15-car motorcade fleeing the hallmark of d
th e a trump ally, but, you know, it really does clarify a lot of things for us including the timeline of how these discussions were going on behind the scenes earlier this year. but the fact that there were 700 pages contained here in these 15 boxes taken back from mar-a-lago earlier this year, again, 100 classified documents, some of them in this special access programs type of things, which, again, even if you have classified clearance, the top secret clearance in the united states government, you need additional clearance to be able to access this. it is something that, you know, we were trying to figure out why would you post this letter that all right. the angle that appears to be coming from the trump side, bianna, is that these shows that the biden white house really was involved in the early discussions here in making sure that it was an investigation. that s not really what the letter shows. if you read it carefully you will see that the biden white house was givi
flank, including new troop movements, equipment, shipments, and military installations. some of them permanent. all of this as russia s relentless war on ukraine grinds on. so many significant developments to get to there. back here in the united states, groundbreaking testimony from a former top aide in the trump white house, cassidy hutchinson, describing in great detail the former president s state of mind that on and around january 6th, and his actions, also testifying that trump was personally aware of the potential for violence that day. listen. i was in the vicinity of a conversation where i overheard the president saying to the effect of, i don t effing care they have weapons, they re not here to hurt me, take the effing mags away, let my people in, they can march to the capitol from here. she also testified that former white house counsel pat cipollone warned that trump and others could be criminally liable if they had gone to the capitol that day. as she testi
6th, we had conversations about potentially obstructing justice or defrauding the electoral count. we ll have much more on her testimony in just a moment. back here in madrid, multiple developments this morning on the first day of the nato summit. president biden, he s participating in several meetings with nato allies including a highly anticipated sit-down with the turkish president next hour. so far, the alliance has announced a significant strengthening of forces along the eastern flank. formally invited finland and sweden to become members after overcoming turkey s opposition and naming china in the strategic concept, as it s known, their mission statement. confronting russia as the brutal invasion of ukraine drags on. poppy? we ll take you back to jim in madrid in just a moment. let s begin this hour though with more on yesterday s damning january 6th testimony. our capitol hill reporter melanie zanona with me. you have reporting, significant developments. walk us