bolduan in for erin burnett, tonight, witness tamperings. cassidy hutchinson said someone in trump s world tried to influence her testimony to the panel and we know now, one of the two examples of possible witness intimidation presented to the committee in that block buster hearing was in fact sent to hutchinson, mark meadow s former aide. what they said to me is as long as i continue to be a team player, they know i m on the right team. i m doing the right thing, i m protecting who i need to protect. you know i ll continue to stay in good graces in trump world. and they have reminded me a couple of times that trump does read transcripts, and just keep that in mind as i proceed through my interviews with the committee. here s another sample, in a different context. this is a call received by one of our witnesses. quote, a person let me know you have your deposition tomorrow. he wants me to let you know he s thinking about you. he knows you re loyal and you re going to do th
undercut it is own authority, certainly not if thrp a trump department of justice so it s been a long time since its had its own mechanisms for enforcing its subpoenas and sad to say, probably time for them to try to find a way to revive that and maybe go back to the times when we send the sergeants in arms to arrest mark meadows or something like that, then we can have the haiti s case and see if he can get out of the prison in the basement of congress. well, despite the mental image of seeing all of that happen, let s see, if congress can t agree on anything, see if they can agree on something like that. great to see you, really appreciate it. outfront for us next, president biden takes on the supreme court, saying he supports a carve out to filibuster rules in order to protect abortion rights but is that a dangerous move? plus, following the story of american alex druhei captured in
tonight, the push to charge former president trump with a crime for his role in the january 6th selection, a new poll by the associated press shows 48% of americans believe trump should be charged, 31% saying he should not be charged, 21% saying they don t know. those responses, though, coming before the blockbuster testimony from former white house aide, cassidy hutchinson, outfront now with some perspective, former senior council to ken star during the clinton whitewater investigation. thank you for being here, paul, you wrote a piece a few months back detailing the challenges attorney general merick garland would face if charged with the role on january 6th, but now you say hutchinson s testimony makes it harder for garland to not bring charges against trump.
bolduan in for erin burnett, tonight, witness tamperings. cassidy hutchinson said someone in trump s world tried to influence her testimony to the panel and we know now, one of the two examples of possible witness intimidation presented to the committee in that block buster hearing was in fact sent to hutchinson, mark meadow s former aide. what they said to me is as long as i continue to be a team player, they know i m on the right team. i m doing the right thing, i m protecting who i need to protect. you know i ll continue to stay in good graces in trump world. and they have reminded me a couple of times that trump does read transcripts, and just keep that in mind as i proceed through my interviews with the committee. here s another sample, in a different context. this is a call received by one of our witnesses. quote, a person let me know you
that s right. doesn t get more stark than that. eli, quick, before we go, i want to ask about pat cipelloni, even more square in the spotlight now, that he may agree to a limited transcribed interview with the january 6th committee, received subpoena, we now know. if he can t talk about presumpt privileged conversations with the white house council which is understandable, how much difference can it still make? in an ideal world, you go to court with the committee and try to force him to talk about everything. i don t think he has a valid executive privilege claim, that said, under the gun here and made the calculation that something is better than nothing so even if they can t ask him about the most important thing, his conversations with trump, still had plenty of important conversations with other white house actors, we know about some from cassidy hutchinson, i would want to know what he discussed with mark meadows and other key players, to still get something really valuable