with this reporting, quote, the former president has called witnesses throughout the investigation according to those who spoke anonymously to reveal conversations. they ruled out a number of former officials as the recipient of this latest call highlighted by cheney saying it was not former white house counsel pat cipollone whose deputy patrick philbin, former media officials, matthews or former pascale. the allegations of witness tampering by trump and his associates, though, do add new dimension to the wider scandal that is to overturn the 2020 election results which, as vice chair liz cheney added, trump was, quote, substantially and personally involved in. politico reports on the dual track of the committee s public hearings with this analysis. on the one hand, the committee is focused on filling out the historical record of the attempt to overturn the election and its violent conclusion. on the other, its members are laying out an unmistakable map to a potential crimina
most violent individuals that we all know that are violent and that were standing back and standing by, and we know that those words were said and we know that they responded to that in full force and they started planning in full view, in plain view of all of the authorities. they weren t hide. they were planning on how to bring guns. they were planning on sharing information on how to enter the capitol. blueprints, floor plans, if you will. so this is what we saw on that day and it is being borne out right now by the january 6th hearings. when you hear the testimony of cassidy hutchinson who makes clear that trump knew not just who was there because as you said, he invited them, but what they were carrying, how they were armed. he was aware that there were ar-15s on flds in trees and he was informed according to