eight hour has to money he was likely peppered with questions about bombshell testimony invoking his name. watch. presidents white house counsel s pat cipollone was also present. do you remember what his position was? pat was very supportive. pat cipollone throughout these conversations was extremely supportive of the justice department. i saw mr. cipollone right before i walked out on the west exact that morning, and mr. cipollone said something to the effect of please make sure we don t go up to the capitol capacity, keep in touch with me. we are going to get charged with every crime imaginable. our committee is certain that donald trump does not want mr. cipollone to testify here. indeed, our evidence shows that mr. cipollone and his office tried to do what was right. we think the american people deserve to hear mr. cipollone personally. so this important testimony is likely to be revealed this week and we will also hear from another key witness it seems, sarah
part of his legal team and to that criminal probe alleging he interfered in the states 2020 election. this appears to be at least in my incessant, the most significant step yet taken in that investigation to target trump s inner circle. one of these latest subpoenas tell you about the scope and direction of that investigation or my hyping up a little too much? i don t think so it all. i actually think that whenever we heard publicly from the fulton county da, she seems aggressive, she seems committed to push this investigation forward. these are all indications as far as i can tell that she s probably committing herself. she s elected confer official, she has an incentive to tell the public, ultimately her voters what she intends to hang her hat on. i think she thinks there is something to this and i think she s going to pursue the matter aggressively or she would not have tried to obtain testimony from so many
from this testimony? where could he be critical in connecting certain dots? i think he can shed a lot of light on a few things. some of the areas they agreed to talk about, one in mention that meeting with the justice department on january 3rd, proposing what he himself referred to as a murder suicide pact, sending those letters to georgia suggesting they reconvene their legislature for the purpose of selecting alternate electors, firing the acting attorney general and replacing the jeffrey clark. he said he would resign if that were to happen. so i think hearing more about that episode could be critically important. he talked about a meeting with john eastman. john eastman is of course the architect of the whole plot to have mike pence refused to certify the election. i think a lot of like could be shed their. his meetings with members of congress, i think that could be very interesting. what was the plan there? members of congress on board to refuse to certify the election. affinit
one of those district attorneys will join me live. i m ayman mohyeldin let s get started. we start this evening with the january six committee, propping a hearing for tuesday after landing a major witness. trump s white house counsel pat cipollone testifying for eight hours friday. and a videotaped and transcript closed-door interview. now remember the committee said that cipollone did not contradict testimony of other witnesses, and a source told nbc news that he was cooperative quote. cipollone was inside the white house and the days leading up to the insurrection you may recall, including a white house meeting with discussions about season voting machines and sending false letters to state officials about election fraud. and he was also in the west wing on january 6th, during the
and call people off, i think he likely possesses information unknown to everyone else, and so i think there s probably a lot of information that we re gonna see. renato, here is what john would, is a former senior investigative counsel for the january six committee, had to say about sarah matthews on this network earlier this week. watch. i expect her to be a very credible witness. she s very young but she had an important role within the white house. i lead the interview as you said, conducted by the staff and i found her to be very credible, so i think she s going to help fill in some of the gaps in the testimony that you ve heard so far and i think it really gain here focus on the days leading up to january six and then really the minute by minute of january six itself. it may not be as explosive as what we heard from cassidy hutchinson, but each of these hearings i think is going to provide additional information at the american people have not