campaign whether they have been contacted by any of their former colleagues or anyone else who attempted to influence or impact their testimony. without identifying any of the individuals involved, let me show you a couple of samples of answers we received to this question. this is a call received by one of our witnesses. quote, a person let me know you have your deposition tomorrow. he wants me to let you know he s thinking about you. he knows you re loyal, and you re going to do the right thing when you go in for your deposition. i think most americans know that attempting to influence witnesses to testify untruthfully presents very serious concerns. tonight, cnn has learned that this example and one other example that congresswoman cheney highlighted were both directed at cassidy hutchinson. cnn has also learned more about the testimony about what fellow white house staffer told her and secret service head of detail. it was about the ride the former president wanted to t
influence to oust john boehner from his leadership role. rose through the ranks of the republican party by doing the difficult work and advocating for republican policies. years later, when donald trump was in the white house, meadows seemed to have his back, introducing a resolution to impeach rob rosenstein. in 2020, trump hand picked meadows to be his fourth and final chief of staff. as with always those who get close to donald trump, he asks for too much, he demands too much loyalty. he expects these people to cross lines that should never be crossed, ethically or morally, in particular as it relates to january 6th. mark meadows has turned over
more than 6,000 domts to the january 6th committee but has refused to cooperate beyond that. but the committee has questions, lots of them. there s the issue of meadows lack of urgency on january 6th as described by his top aid, cassidy hutchinson. i was surprised he wasn t a little bit more alarmed and wasn t a little bit more aggressive in requesting for the former president to call off the protest at the capitol. meadows did share hundreds of text messages with the committee including some exchanged with rally organizers and others in trump s inner circle calling on him to stop the january 6gth attack. in one message, meadows writes, i love it about a plan for selecting a group of trump alternate selectors. he pushed a bunked conspiracy theory about the 2020 election
center of a political and legal storm that now appears to be growing, mark meadows who was trump s white house chief of staff has certainly come quite a distance with the last year and a half. here s 360 s randi kay. i stand for life, liberty, and lower taxes. as we look at that, i m unapoll jetically pro-life. that was mark meadows long before he aligned himself with donald trump. a year later, meadows was elected to the house of representatives from north carolina s 11th congressional district. it was a rise in congress. in 2013, just eight months into his freshman term, he became known as the architect of the government shutdown, and gained recognition of the coalition that served dozens of house republicans. i believe i m representing the will of the people. in 2015, he used his
being stolen. at one point, contacting national security officials with what he said was potential evidence of china hijacking the u.s. election by using thermostats. that s according to two direct sources with knowledge of the situation. i m not surprised that he would go to these extreme lengths to please president trump. it does not surprise me, but it disappointed me because i thought he was better than that. now meadows has gone silent. his lawyer declining our request for comment. clearly what s happened in recent weeks is i think not only done damage to the president, but those closest to him like mark meadows. now all that stink has splashed up on him, and you can t wash away the stink. up next, liz cheney s uphill battle to keep her seat in the u.s. congress and what it says