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
would like to get and so far he s resisted all attempts and pat cipollone is someone who could corroborate many of the specific points becse heas many of thecific scenes that she recounts. she could corroborate exactly what she was saying. carol leonnig, luke broadwater, katty kay. ahead for us, legal facing donald j. trump and how the select committee s hearings may be playing or moving the ball forward over at doj. stay with us. d over at doj. d over at doj. stay with us until you re ready. then we deliver to your new home - across town or across the country. pods, your personal moving and storage team.
stopping the certification of the electoral counts that had been certified in the states and to overturn a free and fair election. and when he couldn t do that he sent the tweet knowing that mike pence was in danger, hoping that the mob would reach him, and they came within seconds and feet of him. and god knows what they would have done to him. the most important thing is that we know that pat cipollone who has to man up was adamant about the fact that they were going to that crimes and be charged with, quote, every crime imaginable, and i really hope if someone out there is owning a racehorse, they hope to run in the derby next year, they will use that name, every crime imaginable. this is such proof yesterday that everybody knew it would be violent and it would be illegal. it just it has nothing to do with the secret service and these people contradicting hutchinson, it has to do with the days before what we have learned about the plotting of the coup, how much of a crook and a
punch bowl news is reporting this, quote, the january 6th select committee is likely to subpoena pat cipollone, the white house counsel over donald trump unless he agrees to be deposed or to testify voluntarily. cipollone is just one of many potential witnesses that are in a back and forth negotiation with the panel. this morning an attorney for ginni thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas sent a letter to the january 6th committee asking for this, quote, better justification, why mrs. thomas testimony is relevant to the committee s legislative purpose. as if pressuring state lawmakers to overturn election results in corresponding with the coup architect memo authored john eastman as the washington post reported this month is not justification enough. as the committee made clear yesterday the panel faces an ongoing challenge in fending off what appears to be a campaign.
the way this white house functioned. that s not always the case, but it certainly was in this white house. what do you make of the pressure on not just the secret service agent and the deputy white house chief of staff of operations which was the title given to the ex-secret service employee, but to people like pat cipollone? yeah. by the way, mick mulvaney tweeted last night that he basically believed cassidy hutchinson, right? he was saying anyone who knows cassidy hutchinson would know that she didn t lie under oath. so there you have someone directly in the white house who did know cassidy hutchinson and who knew what she was doing and who had served as a character witness for her which again, makes us think she was under oath. there was no reason to believe and people who knew her have tweeted about this, that she was lying. so it seems like the important person to come forward is pat cipollone. she mentions him so often and mark meadows and that s who they