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
the chief of staff knew about the security situation before the riot. they knew there were weapons and wanted them to march onto the capitol. what they did or did not do to safeguard the capitol as a result. the president knew followers were armed that day and suggested they march on the capitol. and cassidy hutchinson said about the former president chief of staff and her boss mark m meadows. we were watching the tv and i could see the rioters were getting closer to the capitol. mark hadn t popped out or said anything about it. i went into his office and he was sitting on the couch on the cell phone, same as the morning when he was scrolling and typing. i said, are you watching the tv, chief? the tv was small. you can see it but i didn t know if he was paying attention. he s like, yeah.
that is something that a lot of people who worked inside the white house and spoke with trump frequently in those days don t deny. that is something they will ready agree with when you point out her story for example told by the valet that trump had thrown his lunch across the room and was so upset with what attorney general told the associated pres, that there was no widespread fraud in the election. those are stories that resonate with people who were around trump. this is the case and he was in this sense of thinking about focusing only on the election. and the same with mark meadows. oftentimes so many times in her testimony she talked about him absent mindedly skoacrolling ons phone when he was told critical information about what was happening. people agree with that in the white house. thanks so much. we now have more reporting just in on the reaction to the testimony. about what she says she was told the former president did after the plans to go to the capitol were rebuffe
of it. her boss. we re going to get to the willered hotel in the next series of meetings. who was in the meetings and talked today about well, mark wanted to go and decided he better call in on the phone. the heart of this conspiracy has developed and we re seeing a pattern and blocks fit into place. is the will lard hotel. because of the way things are fit together, why is it that donald trump is so intent in getting to the capitol and getting those people who he knows are armed and all the rest, what s the committee theory about this that maybe a lot more than a theory? they were going to stop the counting of the vote for the president of the united states. and try to prevent at 1:00 p.m. the only time there s law in the united states that says this is when and how you elect the president of the united states. they wanted to stop it. pence wouldn t do it and now
the bravery to get up there and describe everything in detail that happened. she should be commended. there are details here that people are focusing on that are in question. this is an easy thing to resolve. the secret service agents, the special agent in charge tony arnado as well. stated they will come and give their side of the story as to what happened on that day. i think we re getting lost a little bit in actually what happened. on that day, there was violence. there was intelligence around acts of violence and projections of increased violence at the u.s. capitol. that s why the secret service didn t bring the president there. who makes that decision? clearly the president wanted to go to the capitol. mark meadows seemed to have left it up to the secret service agent in the vehicle to tell the president, no, they weren t going. it wasn t just a secret service agent in the vehicle. it was a special agent in charge. that individual is responsible.