hutchinson, a former top aide to trump chief of staff mark meadows. she s been in some of the most dramatic videotaped testimony. she talked about conversations around illegality of the fake electors scheme, she reportedly confirmed accounts that trump reacted approvingly to the chance of hang mike pence. and we re also learning federal agencies john eastman s cell phone last week. eastman is the architect of the scheme to install fake electors in order to overturn the election. joining us now, cnn anchor chris wallace, host of who s talking to chris wallace, chris, great to see you this morning. when you have an unannounced hearing like this, you raise expectations. whether you mean to or not. so clearly everyone looking at this hearing today at 1:00 wondering what is cassidy hutchinson going to talk about? what are you expecting? well, you re exactly right. in fact, when i unplugged last night we still didn t know the identity of the mystery witness. i woke up this
big day, unexpected and significant? absolutely. cassidy hutchinson has long been considered one of the most consequential witnesses for the january 6th committee due to her approximatety to trump many chief of staff mark meadows and therefore to critical events and conversations surrounding january 6. now, the committee has not released the topic of today s hearing, but the rush to get the hearing happening today shows just how important they believe this testimony could be. her testimony has rattled capitol hill. are you aware of any reporter: once a 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, and a handful of members that weren t at the december 21st meeting asked for preemptive pardons. mr. gaetz did. reporter: at times surfing a. hutchinson s accuracy proving critical. you hear those at the w
of staff mark meadows. she has been in some of the most dramatic motels of videotaped testimony. she identified the names of several republican lawmakers she said were asking about pardons. she talked about conversations around the legality of the fake elector scheme. she reportedly confirmed accounts that trump reacted approvingly to the chants of hang mike pence. we re also learning that the cell phone video of john eastman last week. you re looking at it as it s unfolding, eastman was there in order to overturn the election. we ll have more on that in a moment. let s bring in jessica schneider on the latest. brianna, cassidy hutchinson has long been considered a crucial witness since up close and personal to those at the white house. and she does have crucial details on what happened on january 6. we know she s been interviewed behind closed doors privately by the committee three times. and now, she will appear at this last-minute hearing in public. privately, we kno
aide to trump white house chief of staff mark meadows. she was present during many critical events and conversations in the white house and we know that she s been cooperating with the panel already sitting privately for at least three different times. you can see her there. cnn reporter marshall cohen is live in washington, d.c. good morning, what do you think that we could learn from hutchinson today? reporter: good morning, guys. we could learn a lot. and you know the committee thinks that this is super important because they scheduled this surprise hearing. it was supposed to be, you know, a little break, a little hiatus after the july 4th break. not so much. this afternoon we ll be hearing from cassidy hutchinson. as you said, she was there for a lot, in the trump white house, she was an aide to mark meadows and she witnessed all kinds of events. i ll break down some of the things that we ve already heard from her and some of the things that we might be hearing from he
mika, the feds took his phone. that s never good, honestly. he s the architect of the attempted coup and the feds have his phone. you know, we were asking, how could this guy not be in legal trouble? apparently he seems he may be. the battle over abortion hits the states, many are wondering if there s anything the federal government can do to protect services for women and what is the state of women s rights? we ll be talking about all of that. willie is with us. good morning. willie, joe and mika, together again. the team is back. welcome to morning joe. it s tuesday, june 28th. along with joe, willie and me, u.s. special correspondent for bbc news, katty kay, and pulitzer-prize winning columnist and associate editor of the washington post eugene robinson. willie, yesterday, i m here working, we re doing a show on i think the most one of the most significant other than bush v. gore, perhaps the most significant case of this supreme court in half a century,