From page one 84 of the book. On the evening of december 18th, mark meadows, my boss, Chief Of Staff, returned from a meeting in the oval office and abruptly asked if i could tell his detail he wanted to go home, as if there was an emergency there. His detail quickly prepared his limo and he left campus without further explanation. Shortly after march departure, i walk down to visit with molly and get a sense of the presidency plans. Usually, if mark went home before the president went to the residents, i would stay at my desk in case the president needed anything from art or me. But since mark had left early with such confidence, i thought perhaps the president was wrapping up for the evening and i would get to go home early to. When i walked into the outer oval, i saw that the president was meeting with general mike flynn, the former National Security adviser, who had pled guilty to lying to the fbi about his involvement with russian officials, getting a Cooperation Deal with special counsel Robert Muellers inquiry into interference of the 2016 election. Three weeks before todays meeting, on november 25th, trump had issued flynn a president ial pardon. Why is mike flynn here, i asked molly. Im not sure, molly said. Then i did, hes just talking to the president about some things. Talking to the president about some things. Got it. I went back to my office and settled in. Molly came to my office soon after and asked if we had a wine opener. No, i said. Mark doesnt drink, so we do not keep alcoholic paraphernalia in his vicinity. I try to joke, but she did not crack even a slight smile. I side. I know the Vice President has won, all called his assistant. Once we secured the wine opener we back to our respected desks. A few minutes later, Eric Herschmann and derek barreled down the hallway past my office, and rounded the corner to the oval office. I was imagining various reasons mike flynn could have for being there that had the lawyers in a panic. But then i remembered, it was derek lines as last day at the white house. I figured, i was over thinking it. Flynn probably left, there was maybe a toast for derrick in the oval office to celebrate his tenure at the white house. Top aides and derricks fiancee, liz, wondered in, and asked if i knew what was happening in the oval office. She had dinner plans with derek, and could not get in touch with him. I said, im not sure. But a bunch of people are in the oval. On cue, we both turned towards the sound of raised voices coming from that direction. Although the oval office was about a ten second walk from my desk, it was highly unusual to hear any noise coming from their. We could not make it distinct towards that night, just people screaming at each other. Malik called me to come to the outer oval. Dan scavino was pouring the last of a bottle of wine into a glass. The screaming was much louder than i had anticipated. I looked into the oval office and saw a larger group. Along with the white house lawyers were mike flynn, sydney powell, and patrick byrne, the ceo Of Overstocked outcome. How did all those people get inside the building . I could tell the meeting was growing more contentious, so i decided to text tony, the deputy Chief Of Staff. Flynn is still here, and sidney powell, theres a brawl. He responded, oh holy heck. Tony mediately called and asked if i knew what they were rolling over. He had been in the oval office earlier that day and heard the president talk about invoking the Insurrection Act or martial law. If thats what they were arguing over, tony said, i need to get mark meadows back to the white house as soon as possible. Eventually, i got a hold of mark, who seemed reluctant to get in the line with the president. I urge him that it sounded like it was a matter of National Security. A secret Service Agent who was standing outside the oval office came by. The agent said, i dont want to hear all of that. Its really upsetting. I wouldnt recommend going down there. The west wing was officially unhinged. Hutchinson continues, things seem to be breaking up as people filed out of the oval and walked by my desk. Molly told me the president wanted to have dinner in the residence as will reconvene the meeting in the yellow oval after he finished eating. I told her i would stay in case something happened. She wished me luck and then she left for the night. Dance can be no stopped by on his way home and said this is up. Eric herschmann walked into mark meadowss office in a fury, pounding his fist on the wall. This cant be happening, he said. This is insane. Pat cipollone, looking traumatized, said to me, this is nuts. Mark needs to come back. Derek lines asked, quote, does the chief really need more of a reason to come back . Here it is. Martial law. I mean, for gods sake. We called rudy to come help us do damage control. Rudy giuliani, you know its bad when we call rudy for backup. The chief needs to come back. I continue to call mark. He continued ignoring my calls. So i called one of the secret Service Agents on his detailed. Go past your phone to mark, now. I ordered. Seriously . The agent asked. What if hes in bed sleeping . What do you expect me to do . Shake him away . I responded, yes. This is a matter of National Security. You need to put me on the phone with him. After a few minutes, i had marked on the line. Mark, the president s reconvening the meeting in the wrote rudy is on his way as backup for Pat Cipollone. Rudy, for Pat Cipollone. We are talking about the Insurrection Act, seizing voting machines. I felt my voice beginning to sound desperate. Please, mark. You need to come back here. He said, all right, im on my way. Hutchinson continues. I walk with mark to the residents, and he had asked me to come back at midnight to break up the meeting if it had not already ended by that. I heard the president scream, i dont care how you do it, just get it done. Mark and i exchanged a pained look, and he disappeared into the yellow oval. My hands were sweating as i walked back to my desk. I never heard the president sound so desperate before. I went to the residents around 11 55 pm, but the meeting had begun to end. I used my key to the rose garden to unlock the door to let everyone out. Mark exported Rudy Off The Present to make sure americas mayor didnt wander back to the residents. One hour after the meeting broke out, my watch budged with a trump tweet, quote, Peter Navarro releases 30page report electing elected a great report by peter, statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 election. Big protest in d. C. On january 6th. Be there, well be wild. Wild. Cassidy hutchinson was the witness who told us all of the worst things that we learned. About the plot to overthrow the government after former President Trump lost reelection. From Cassidy Hundreds and, we learned that the president was told by his Deputy White HouseChief Of Staff about the number of weapons and the types of weapons people had brought to the rally sites in washington d. C. On january 6th 2021. From Cassidy Hutchinson, we learned that the president , having been informed about all of those weapons, then ordered that the Metal Detectors be taken down so the armed crowd could be allowed in with their weapons. He then, as planned, told that crowd to march on congress. From Cassidy Hutchinson, we learned that he not only told the crowd at the rally out loud that he would go to congress with them, he also tried to do it. So once the president had gotten into the vehicle with bobby, he thought that they were going to the capitol and we dont have the assets to do it. Its not secure. Were going back to the west wing. The president had very strong, very angry response to that. Tony described him as being irate. The president said something to the effect of, im the president , take me up to the capital, now. To which bobby responded, sir, we have to go back to the west wing. The president reached up towards the front of the vehicle to grab at the steering wheel. Mr. Engel grabbed his arm, said sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel. We are going back to the west wing, we are not going to the capital. Mr. Trump then used his free hand to lunge towards bobby engle, and when mr. Renata had recounted the story to me, he had motion towards his clavicle. We learn from Cassidy Hutchinson and that remarkable day of public testimony that the former president not only tried physically to steer the president ial limousine to congress, and in her telling, physically lunged at the secret Service Agent telling him that the limo would not be going there. We learned from her as well that the president acknowledged repeatedly that he had in fact lost the election, but he just didnt want to have to admit. We learn from her that when trump was told that the rioters had in fact breached the Capitol Building and were surging in towards the members of congress who were trapped inside, he refused repeated requests to ask the rioters to stand down. We learn from Cassidy Hutchinson that when trump heard that the rioters were calling for the lynching of his Vice President , who was on the promises, mike pence, we learn from her that he said that pence deserved that faith. That the rioters werent doing anything wrong. She gave that testimony, she was 25 years old. Very much alone in the world, and very much without resources. And i mean that literally. To the extent that she was flat broke. She had a couple hundred dollars in her checking account, she had not paid her rent for months, her wifi had been cut off at her apartment, this was a very young woman who had had a very highend job at the white house. She was effectively the Chief Of Staff, the top staffer to the white house Chief Of Staff. But she was a young woman who had only ever hide government employment, when the Trump Administration and did the way it did, she was alone and very much without resources. This was a Working Class first in her family to go to college, all of the connections, all of the post she had in life, she had developed herself on her own. As much as a person can do by the age of what, 24 . When she was subpoenaed to testify, she was very much alone. She was unable to afford a lawyer on her own, she reluctantly therefore got one from trump. She says that that lawyer of actively encouraged her to not tell what she knew. That arrangement lasted for a few of her first depositions until she could no longer live with herself. She finally connected with new council who would represent her for free, and without what she felt was potentially conflicted loyalty. And then she told all. She says in her new book in the prologue, quote, before retaining my new lawyers, at times, i had told less than the whole truth to a Congressional Committee charged with investigating a matter of the highest national implants. A matter that posed a threat to americas future greatness. Or that had been recounted to me by witnesses. Those events had precipitated the shocking assault on the United States congress, and an institution i cherish. It threaten the continued success of american democracy. My conscience was bothering me. And i came to the decision in parliamentary language to clarify and extend my testimony. Well, that is how she ended up telling the whole truth. She is further clarifying and extending her testimony in this new book that is out tomorrow, which is called enough. It contains a lot of new information. I started off taking notes when i started reading the book, thinking that i would want to keep the main new points of information on a sheet or to have paper so that i could stay focused on what i wanted to talk to her about. I ended up taking 20 tiny scribbles, handwritten pages of notes. All about what was new here to me. The new information in this book includes information about bizarre, apparent mishandling of Classified Information, including some, at least previously Classified Information. Potentially still Classified Information, being carried around in a whole foods bag and dropped off with some reporters. There is a strange new story about what the white house Chief Of Staff did in the last 15 minutes that the Trump Administration existed on inauguration day. Something that required him to move with lights and sirens through downtown d. C. To get there before noon, whereupon joe biden would become president. Theres new information that as early as may 2020 the white house, the trump white house, may 2020, was already trying out the phrase stop the steal, and messaging about the 2020 election. Six months before the election even happened. There is new confirmation from Cassidy Hutchinson that trump was mortally ill from covid, that he was so ill his life was in danger when he was hospitalized with the virus. Theres confirmation from Cassidy Hutchinson that it was the former president himself who ordered the firing of the u. S. Attorney for the seventh district of new york, jeff berman. Mr. Berman telling us tonight that before hearing that thats whats in Capacity Hutchins and book, hearing from us tonight when we called for comment, hed been aware that his foreign had been ordered by president himself. There are six different allegations about various white house men groping or creeping on Cassidy Hutchinson in this book, although i should mention that two of the six are both matt gaetz, so theres six alleged incidents but only five different men. Well have more on that later. Theres a lot to talk about here. And im cognizant that were theres a lot to talk about in general. In the news right now, looks like the Writer Strike is finally over and in hollywood, when biden is going to walk the picket line tomorrow. Something no president has ever done before. Senator bob calling for his resignation after his indictment on corruption charges last week, and now former House Speaker nancy pelosi is calling for his resignation as well. In the senate, Democrat John fetterman was the first to call for minute disses racing nation. Now senator peter welch is also calling on him to resign. Senator menendez says he wont resign, but this is now a boulder that is running downhill at him. It is hard to see how Senator Menendez stays. We are still looking at a Government Shutdown by the end of the week. There are even odds that a shutdown might also bring with it the end of the speakership of House Republican leader Kevin Mccarthy. Someone with whom Cassidy Hudson is very close. Weve got the second republican president ial debate tonights from now, with former President Donald Trump still not planning on showing up despite his lead in the polls. Instead hes Making Headlines in the last few days for saying that this weekend that the chairman of the joint sleeves of staff should be executed for treason. And then today he said this news network youre watching right now should be investigated for treason, and it will be if hes elected president again. And this afternoon he tried to buy a gun. People under felony indictment arent legally allowed to buy a gun, but that was a real moment today. For Cassidy Hutchinson, it has been 15 months since her testimony if that turned the world on its ear. She has spent those 15 months out of sight, in part for her own safety. But also to write this book, and also to do three separate interviews with u. S. Justice department prosecutors and one with a Grain Journey in Fulton County. Former president she served and who she says she at one point adored and to whom she was quite loyal for a very long time, hes now been indicted in four different jurisdictions on dozens of felony counts. Cassidy hutchinson says she found the bravery to stop effectively lying by omission, to start telling which he actually knew, when she first read the story of this man. A man who had basically the same job as her, under a very different president. Alexander butterfield had also been affected the Chief Of Staff to the white house, Chief Of Staff under president mix. Sort of a low profile, low Name Recognition the law with access to very highlevel and sensitive goings on. Like Cassidy Hutchinson, he was a loyal republican, loyal to the president , didnt ever want to be anything other