new information that is both urgent and important. the panel has not revealed any details publicly, but cnn has confirmed through sources that cassidy hutchhutchinson, who wa top aide to white house chief of staff mark meadows will testify today live. hutchinson is considered to be one of the panel s most consequential witnesses due to her proximity to the white house chief of staff, mark meadows, before and on january 6. hutchinson has been interviewed by the select committee at least three times before behind closed doors. clips from those recorded interviews were played during previous hearings. we saw cassidy hutchinson testify on many different parts of then president trump s efforts to overturn the election. remember, this was not just about the mob that stormed the capitol on january 6, it was about various other trump schemes to undermine the democratic election. for example, hutchinson testified to the committee that mark meldadows and rudy giulian were involved in e
recorded testimony by former pence chief of staff mark short who was with vice president pence an january 6th. was a firsthand witness to trump s pressure campaign in the days leading up to it. we re told house investigators will try to make the case that the pressure on pence directly distributed to the insurrection at the capitol and the continuing ongoing threat to the rule of law and democracy in the united states. many aides are promising new information about what the vice president was doing during the riot, and where he was hiding as that mob chanted, hang mike pence, hang mike pence. the panel also will focus on the role of conservative lawyer john eastman in pushing the bo fgus unconstitutional theory that pence has the power to invalidate legal, lawful e electoral votes. let s go to ryan nobles on capitol hill right now. ryan, the chairman of the select committee congressman bennie thompson of mississippi just chaired a block buster new information about a potentia
showed up to navarro s home and served him with a subpoena specifically asking him to provide to a grand jury documents related to his refusal to comply with the house select committee. including any communications that he had had with former president trump or his lawyers. peter navarro has been public about his efforts to undermine the outcome of the 20 20 election. he was subpoenaed by the committee last february and refused to comply with that, citing executive privilege. the committee, though, at the time, said look, there s a lot of things we want to talk to you about that you ve spoken about publicly. you have published in your book, and that would not be covered by executive privilege. come in and answer our questions. he refused to do that. he refused to provide any documents. the house voted to refer him to the justice department for criminal contempt. he s been indicted by a grand jury. what happens next in the legal process? he s expected to appear in court la
and more complete context. today you will hear miss hutchinson relate certain firsthand observations of president trump s conduct. you will hear statements about the seniored a vie vors that day including mark meadows and his white house counsel. and we will begin to examine evidence bearing on what president trump and members of the white house staff knew about the prospect for violence on january 6th, even before that violence began. to best communicate the information the committee has gathered, we will follow the practice of our recent hearings, playing videotape testimony for miss hutchinson and others and posing questions to miss hutchinson live. mr. chairman, i yield back. thank you, very much. our witness today is miss cassidy hutch pson who served in the trump administration in the white house office of
in terms of con tenlt of congress. interestingly, the committee has expressed a lot of frustration that the justice department has not done enough to help them enforce these subpoenas, but the navarro case is much stronger because he has not provided any cooperation unlike, for example, former chief of staff mark meadows who did provide some documents and explosive stuff the committee has uncovered before he stopped cooperating. navarro was also not one of the president s absolute topped a vie vors. he s already missed about privilege are unlikely to shield him in this case. appreciate the hustle and breaking news. let s get to capitol hill with manu raju. now you have the indictment of peter navarro. following steve bannon. the committee has wanted and democrats have not just in the committee but wanted the justice department to do more investigating january 6th. investigating donald trump s role in all of it and to go