knew to be armed to the seat of that democracy then agreed allegedly with member of the mob who were crying out that his vice president mike pence should be hanged. from the beginning to end today what former white house staffer cassidy hitchenson testified she heard and saw. as never been said publicly before. and some of it has never been considered imaginable before in a president of the united states. she testified in person and previously on tape the crowds were gathering for the rally he wanted metal detecters outside taken away. had knew some who tried to get through already had been armed. part of the conversation i was in the vicinity of a conversation whether i overheard the president say something to the effect of i don t care they have weapons. they re not here to hurt me. take the fing bags away. let me people in they can march the capitol from here. let the people here. take the mags away. just to be clear, is it your understanding that the president wante
grabbing a seekcret service agency. how ado you adescribe that the leader of the greatest democracy on earth sent a mob to members who were crying out that his vice president, mike pence, should be hanged. from the beginning to end today, what former white house staffer testified she saw and heard to chief of meadows has never been said publicly before and probably never been considered imaginable before in the president of the united states. hutchinson testified in person and previously on tape that crowds were gathering for the skran ware 6th rally. he wanted medal detecters outside taken away. even though he knew some who tried to get through already had been armed. they re in the off stage tent. i was part of a conversation. i was in the vicinity of a conversation where i overheard the president say something about i don t care that they have weapons. they re not here to hurt me. let my people in. they can march the capitol from here. let the people in. take the f i
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
gal low is being built. speaker of the house in the session of congress. they would have all been in danger and who else? the capitol police. who he knew were out gunned and out manned. and march them right to the people. it s astounding the criminality about this is really really high. astounding day of testimony. a lot more ahead. for more on the reaction from the former president and his people let s go to cnn chief white house correspondent. caitlyn, obviously a day of devastating testimony from former trump loyalist. what has donald trump s reaction been to the bomb shell testimony? he started denying it in realtime. she was still up there testifying in front of the committee, you already saw the former president responding. he is disputing the most sensational part of the story today. her testimony about him lunging at the secret service and overheard from other agents and
hhow many votes he had in a senate trial. say you may have four to six vote ands don t have mine. everyone stay with us. that s a great story. that s when he decided he had to resign and announced the next day. the next day. coming up next a former d.c. cop seriously hurt defending the capitol that day also a former secret service member on some of the testimony we heard today. and now the rebutle to about the president allegedly lunging at a secret service agent. later someone who knows professionally what makes people tick and knows personally what makes trump tick. mary trump joins us.