efforts to overturn the 2020 election. let s get starts. kristen holmes is live. a lot of secrecy, kristen and this hearing and this witness and what we could learn today. reporter: kate, that s right, we re told in part that secrecy is actually about concerns about hutchinson s access to the testimony. given the proximity to trump s chief of staff mark meadows also proximity to events and sources described hutchinson as always by meadows side. and given the urgency at which the committee brought this hearing it just goes to show you how explosive they believe that this testimony may be. reporter: her testimony had rattled capitol hill. are you aware of any other reporter: once awe top aide to former white house chief of staff mark meadows, cassidy hutchinson is now a key witness in the house january 6 investigation. giving hours of testimony in multiple sessions. mr. gaetz and mr. brooks, i know, both advocated for blanket pardons of all members involved in that
the piece, she s spoken more than once, three times in closed hearings to the committee. the committee has played clips of her and testimony as we ve seen. is it clear what, i don t know, the range or the scope of new information that she could provide that s pushing this committee to do this at the last minute? no, really right now, that s incredibly unclear. the committee has not laid out in any way what the focus or what they re looking at during this testimony or for this hearing. but one thing that we did see in the last several hearings through the video testimony is not just that she had almost this unprecedented access to both former chief of staff mark meadows and donald trump, that isn t itself is critical to the committee but that lawmakers and principals were talking to her directly. she talked about lawmakers going to her to discuss pardons. that means she was privy to conversations that were going on, not just a fly on the wall, but actually having these direct
conversations. the other thing to look at is again the switching of attorneys. there s a question whether or not this allowed her to say more. that she wanted to say more and that s why she ended up doing that and that s how we got to this today. elie, what do you make of the emergency nature of this hearing, as an attorney and prosecutor yourself? it was a surprise. she s not an unknown pep she s spoken to the committee. we ve seen her clips so she s not somebody who parachuted in here. i ve been situation where is you have a piece of testimony that you feel is so important as a prosecutor you that just want to make sure you lock it in. we used to go to a grand jury, sometimes the same day. there may be an element that the committee feels is super important and not risk something happening. also, i ll tell you, it s really, really scary to testify. of course. let s remember the human element of this, this young adult is about to get in front of millions and millions of people
she may now have new information. i don t know what that might be. but this may simply be, again i don t want to say a rehash, but, again, her talking about things that she s already communicated to the committee. but perhaps the committee has discovered, or decided there are different ways to ask a question. that might jar a memory, or might get a different information. so, you know, i have no idea what might arise as a result of this hearing today. well, the good news is, you and i both know, we won t be guessing much longer. the hearing will begin in two hours and we can see it together. thank you again, attorney general. we ll see you. president biden will be meeting with turkey s president. can he convince him to support new members joining nato finally? details in a live report, nenex.
bolduan, once a former aide to trump s chief of staff now a star with the innocence today s insurrection hearing. the biden administration set to unveil its abortion plan now after roe was overturned. and dozens of migrants found dead in an abandoned tractor trailer in texas. that is what we re watching at this hour. thank you for being here. we re two hours away from the january 6 committee s next public hearing. a surprise hearing that wasn t on the schedule this time yesterday. cnn has learned the committee plans to present what it described as recently obtained evidence, with live testimony from someone who was in the west wing with the capitol attack unfolding. her name is cassidy hutchinson. she s not a household name, until now, she s a former aide to white house chief of staff mark meadows. and hutchinson witnessed many of the key conversations and january 6 and around trump s