hot texas sun. and now word of children among the victims. plus, shocking new video of a powerful blast in the war that russia started, as the u.s. and allies rush to prevent any chance of a similar fate in two other countries. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start today with our politics lead and the paulout from the damning, stunning january 6th hearing yesterday. it is becoming more and more clear just how distressed trump and his allies seem to be in the wake of the testimony from former white house aide cassidy hutchinson. based on how relentlessly they re attacking her. nonetheless, the former top aide to the chief of staff, mark meadows, is standing by her comments. cassidy hutchinson s lawyers telling us in a statement, you re hearing about first on cnn, quote, ms. hutchinson stands by all of the testimony she provided yesterday. under oath, to the select committee to investigate the january 6th attack on the united states capitol. unquote. now, one mig
cassidy hutchinson to tell the committee she did not recall details even if she did recall details. joining me with more on this exclusive reporting cnn s paula reid. goodness. okay. what exactly did the lawyer tell cassidy hutchinson and what s the legal significance of that. it s incredibly significant. the just i m team has learned that the top ethics attorney at the trump white house allegedly advised his then client to tell the committee she did not recall details that she actually did. this is one of several instances in which the committee has accused members of trump s orbit of trying to obstruct the panel s investigation. interestingly, trump s save america political action committee funded the attorney and his law firm including paying for his representation of hutchinson. in a statement to cnn he said he did not advice hutchinson to mislead the committee saying, quote, i represented ms.
incident cassie hutchinson described having been told about by then secret service agent, tony renato, the story trump lunged for steering wheel and lunged at robert ingle, they will say it didn t occur, the event. i m gnaw sure if they re also claiming they didn t tell cassidy hutchinson that the story occurred. will they testify under oath in open hearing? well, first of all, ms. hutchinson testified under oath. i think she provided credible testimony to the committee. and if there are others who have information about the facts she covered, we would like to hear from them. we look forward to hearing their testimony under oath. and as to whether that will be in a public hearing or in a different part of our investigation, we look forward to receiving as much information from those secret service officers and others who can provide information relevant to the work we re doing.