developments and changes overnight on capitol hill. this afternoon, the committee investigating the january 6 insurrection will call a special witness in this surprise public hearing. that is former white house chief of staff mark meadows aide, former aide, cassidy hutchinson. she s expected to testify starting at 1:00 eastern today. last week in videotaped testimony, she revealed the names of several republican lawmakers who sought blanket pardons. so, let s begin with that, with our own correspondent jessica schneider. jess, there wasn t going to be a hearing this week at all. then when one was announced, didn t know who the witness would be. very similar in the leadup. why? yeah, last-minute announcement, possibly, poppy, to try to keep things secret because of concerns about security. the committee concerned about the security of cassidy hutchinson and other possible witnesses. that may be why it was kept under wraps to this point. cassidy hutchinson in her hearing tod
cassidy hutchison was aide to chief of staff mark meadows. she says she was in the room when a number of conversations happened. she spoke to a special session of the january 6th committee this afternoon was w. eye-opening testimony. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie is live on capitol hill with the latest. good evening, hash shah. good evening, bret. the former president has already responded almost immediately during that hearing calling this witness bad news. but, her testimony was dramatic and may have already caused serious damage. do you swear a last-minute hearing with a surprise star witness. cassidy hutchison, special assistant to former president trump in the chief of staff s office told the house committee during the riot she first felt scared when mark meadows predicted the day could go down hill. he said something to the effect of there s a lot going on cass, but, i don t know, things might get real, read bad. when january 6th came hutchison p
two deep blue states looking to capitalize on democratic failures in the white house pull off a victory. brooke singman has all of those results. brooke: good morning, yesterday s primaries setting up match ups for a big red wave in november midterm. in new york, congressman lee zeldin wins for governor, and will face kathy hochul, running for her first full term after rising to power in the wake of disgraced former governor andrew cuomo sexual assault scandals. zeldin promises to clean up the mess by their policies. she s been pandering, when tax and control spend nothing albany and pro liberal criminals incysts insist on taking our state in the wrong direction, kathy hochul didn t lead them, she got led by the far left. brooke: gubernatorial race in illinois, darren bailey is up against incumbent democrat j.b. pretzger. bailey says she is the change needed. illinois is a lot worse off than it was 40 years ago and time for something different. brooke: moderate de