cassidy hutchison was aide to chief of staff mark meadows. she says she was in the room when a number of conversations happened. she spoke to a special session of the january 6th committee this afternoon was w. eye-opening testimony. congressional correspondent aishah hasnie is live on capitol hill with the latest. good evening, hash shah. good evening, bret. the former president has already responded almost immediately during that hearing calling this witness bad news. but, her testimony was dramatic and may have already caused serious damage. do you swear a last-minute hearing with a surprise star witness. cassidy hutchison, special assistant to former president trump in the chief of staff s office told the house committee during the riot she first felt scared when mark meadows predicted the day could go down hill. he said something to the effect of there s a lot going on cass, but, i don t know, things might get real, read bad. when january 6th came hutchison p
David alexander just tweeted. a source close to the secret service. i agree with jonathan. it would be shocking to me january 6th committee stocked with former prosecutors didn t have testimony from the secret service agents to corroborate what she said. she had so much damning firsthand information it makes no sense why the january 6th committee would risk undercutting her credibility and their credibility to put second hand information without having any corroboration for it we have to wait and see do they have the secret service agents on tape saying that what she said was true? bret: they did talk to the secret service agent, byron. and for all the methodic call laying out and running soundbites and all scripted, they were not a part of this presentation today. and that s just part of the problem with this committee. cassidy hutchison had spoken, done interviews on video with the committee four times before this and yet this hearing was
jesse: there is no roof. judge jeanine: that s a hotel? kat: it costs hundreds of dollars for the experience. greyhound bus can you do the same thing way cheaper. jesse: smell the fumes. jesse: all the cigarettes can you smoke right next door. judge jeanine: go to the moon. dana: that is it for us. special report is up next. hey, bret. bret: smoke them in you have got them. good evening. welcome to washington i m bret baier. the french president raising concerns to president biden about energy production as the president meets with world leaders who have big questions about u.s. policy. the president s southern border policy under fire once again today after the deaths of dozens of migrants in a human smuggling disaster. we will take you there live. we begin with the woman who has a special assistant to then president trump s right-hand man detailing the drama inside the white house and as the capitol riot unfolded.
Of then trump to go up to capitol hill on january 6th to the point where she testified that he told the secret service agents driving the car, the beast that he wanted to go there and they said no you have to go to the white house. take a listen to that testimony. the president said something to the effect of i m the f ing president, take me up to the capitol 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 re going back to the west wing. we re not going to the capitol. mr. trump used his free hand to lunge towards bobby engel. bret: okay. just in the past few minute as tweet from peter alexander nbc
Popular, despite their best wishes but that s where the road map is heading. if that s the case just politically speaking, mara, isn t that antithetical what democrats would want that they would want to run against a donald trump who was, perhaps, weakened and if this committee politically achieves their goal to jonathan s point they wouldn t get to that. some democrats think donald trump is the most beatable. other democrats think it s such a danger to item did crazy it s better to weaken him in any way. that s what liz cheney wants. i said sarcastically this was a good day for ron desantis. this was a damaging day for donald trump. i think it weakens him e is no longer the 800-pound gorilla, is he 700-pound gorilla. still polling at the top for republican voters this was a bad day for him. this makes it just a little bit harder for him to be the nominee. bret: 10 seconds, byron. trump is losing influence inside the republican party