new information that is both urgent and important. the panel has not revealed any details publicly, but cnn has confirmed through sources that cassidy hutchhutchinson, who wa top aide to white house chief of staff mark meadows will testify today live. hutchinson is considered to be one of the panel s most consequential witnesses due to her proximity to the white house chief of staff, mark meadows, before and on january 6. hutchinson has been interviewed by the select committee at least three times before behind closed doors. clips from those recorded interviews were played during previous hearings. we saw cassidy hutchinson testify on many different parts of then president trump s efforts to overturn the election. remember, this was not just about the mob that stormed the capitol on january 6, it was about various other trump schemes to undermine the democratic election. for example, hutchinson testified to the committee that mark meldadows and rudy giulian were involved in e
understand about january 6th and the conspiracy, the plan to carry out a coup. the hearing centered around the explosive testimony of a single witness, 25-year-old cassidy hutchinson. she s a trump white house aide who did what so many of her colleagues and her bosses, including her direct boss, chief of staff mark meadow have so far refused to do. she told the truth. she cooperated with the panel having sat for four taped interviews before today s testimony. this afternoon in public she made it clear that the brutal unsparing violence that took place at the united states capitol was not just something unexpected, something that got out of hand, as many in the republican party would want you to believe. it was part of a planned, premeditated coup attempt. hutchinson testified that the white house was fully aware that january 6th could turn violent before that day. they let it happen anyway. chief of staff mark meadows was told on the morning of the 6th that the attendees for
has retained on much of the republican base. more republicans will be asking themselves if this is the person they want as their nominee in 2024. taken as a whole, it was devastating in the extreme and for the congressional committee tasked with investigating the most devastating attack on the u.s. capitol in centuries, hutchinson s testimony puts their probe at a crossroads with important new questions to answer, especially about the role of white house counsel pat cipollone and what he told the ex-presind top trump officials on january 6th and in the days before and after. vice chair liz cheney reiterating the panel s call for cipollone to testify. white house counsel pat cipollone had significant concerns. it s time for sip loan toe testify on the record. any concerns he has about the institutional interest of his prior offers are outweighed by the need for his testimony. punch bowl news is reporting this, quote, the january 6th select committee is likely to subpoena pat c
steering wheel. mr. engel grabbed his arm, said sir you need to take your hand off the steering wheel. we are going back to the west wing, we are not going to the capital. mr. trump then used his free hand to lunge towards bobby engle, and when mr. renata had recounted the story to me he motioned towards his clavicle. so elliott, this is still ongoing, this january six committee. with testimonies that say i wonder what you make of the potential, if bobby engle corroborates what she said, which was challenged if you are at the time, what impact do you think this would have on the investigation and obviously the forthcoming report? not a ton, laura. i ve spent a bunch of time working for congress and then around congressman i was at the justice department, helping to protest one myself. my sense is that the committee is in cleanup mode, because as you said, there was a factual dispute over whether or not those altercation took place. now cassidy hutchinson gave that testimony, but
penalty of persecution if she lied to congress. that s why we re saying earlier is so important that we need to hear directly from the secret service agents. what made cassidy hutchinson so credible as a witness apart from her demeanor, her poise and the way she recounted things clearly and succinctly and answered all of the questions was that she was very honest and candid about what she heard directly and what was secondhand to her. she made absolutely no pretense that she had been in the car and even to the extent that when she was outside the dining room, i was about two feet away and i got to hear one conversation about mark meadows and i can hear in the background what was being said in the dining room. her memory is meticulous and either she took notes at the time or she had some kind of other way of keeping her memory clear because remember, now this is over a year ago, but her memory is clear and she is very specific about what she knew