that hide behind phony claims of privilege or hide because they feel that they can get away with it i think will be damned by history. we re ready to face threats of russian aggression because quite frankly, there is no choice. in light of the log progress the progress we ve together, we support them joining nato. pretty big win for president biden saying the enlargement of that i to is exactly the opposite of what president putin wanted to see. we begin with a remarkable string of revelations in washington. the committee investigating the january 6 riots has presented new damning testimony offering crucial details about president trump s actions in the lead up to and during the attack on the capitol. cassidy hutchinson, a former aide to mark meadows gave her account of the conversations inside the trump white house that day describing just how much trump and his aides knew about the riots and what trump did or didn t do to stop the violence unfolding that day. ryan n
even in american history just be the poster child of sedition. and that is what we saw today and there will be a lot of scenes of this, the plate smashing and the ketchup and i m the fing president. the president of the united states didn t care that there were armed rioters on the capitol and said that they are not going to hurt me, meaning that they might hurt pence or pelosi or members of congress. it is not going to be the behavior of donald trump in the suv and did he or did he not, you know, try to lunge at the driver, the secret service. that will be all interesting, all important, but the fact of the matter is this was a riot and insurrection and the president was basically green lighting blood shed as long as it wasn t his own. so there is no president that has ever acted this repreh reprehensible. this is a twice impeached president who tried to have a coup on the united states. brinkley went on to say that tuesday s testimony put trump in a new kind of legal jeopardy.
him. his response came after the committee showed this rendering to show how close she was to the oval office. other aides and advisers to the former president tell cnn that they were stunned by hutchinson s bombshell testimony. a number of them said that they were taken aback by the description hutchinson offered of the outbursts by the former president, specifically when he learned on january 6 that he could not go to the u.s. capitol and when he first heard about the interview that attorney general bill barr gave confirming that there was no widespread fraud in the 2020 election. now, of course these are trump aides and advisers who have been witness to his temper themselves at times, but one adviser told me that this could certainly cut against the image that lot of trump supporters have of the former president and that is as somebody who was always this control. the republican vice chair of the house select committee says that the investigation has uncovered evidence of potent
overturn the 2020 election results. in late november 2020, meadows sept sent a text to ginni thomas, wife of justice clarence thomas. meadows said of the battle to keep trump in office, quote, this is a fight of good versus evil. evil always looks like the victor until the king of kings triumphs before do not grow we r weary. the fight continues. according to reporting by cnn and the new yorker, during the period after the 2020 election and before the january 6 attack on the capitol, mark meadows was burning both sides of a dangerous candle as he helped trump push lies about election fraud. at the same time he is telling people such as bill bar and others we don t believe in this stuff, he is if a still at a timing and putting in front of the president in the oval office the most anyone who comes to the door with some lunatic election fraud conspiracyadows
on january 6 was justified legally? no. do you believe in the peaceful transition of power in the united states of america? the fifth. most legal experts say the simple answer to all those questions is no, but michael flynn wasn t the only one doing trump s bidding. cassidy hutchinson revealed how much mark meadows knew about trump s actions. brian todd reports. reporter: cassidy hutchinson s testimony before the january 6 committee painting then chief of staff mark meadows as donald trump s enabler. at one point describing concern inside the white house, including from the white house counsel that meadows wanted trump to go to the capitol with rioters that day. it is my understanding that mr. cipollone thought that mr. meadows was indeed pushing this along with the president. reporter: it was the culmination of mark meadows commitment to help trump try to