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agency today. remember that explosive testimony from cassidy hutchinson who said or not himself told or the then president was furious when his security detail wouldn t take him to the capitol on january 6th? the president said something to the effect of. i am the president taking 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. he said sir we need to take your hand off the steering wheel. we are going back to the west wing, we are not going to the capitol. mr. trump then used his free hand to lunge towards bobby engle and when mr. ornado had recounted the story to me he had motion towards his clavicle s. we have lots more to come on that in just a moment, plus there is news on team trump s request for a special master to oversee the fbi s review. of the evidence seized in mar-a-lago. now the doj wants to file ....
and if you re just tuning in to cnn i have to tell you about betty thompson, the committee chair. he says that the january six committee has decided whether to subpoena mike pence or trying to call donald trump to testify. watch this? i think we would benefit from that testimony. they both have, i would think, significant knowledge about what goes on. but we have a committee. and we will work through the process. plus, first of cnn, multiple sources say a former trump national security council official will not testify, publicly, and thursday s primetime hearing. matthew pottinger resigned on january six after trump s tweet slamming his own vice president for refusing to overturn the election. one of my staff brought me a print out of a tweet by the president. and the tweet said something obvious to the effect of mike pence, the vice president didn t have the courage to do what s should have been done. i read that tweet. and made a decision at that moment. to resi ....
thanks for watching everyone. i ll be back tomorrow night. don lemon tonight starts right now. he doeleman. how are you doing a laura, great show i always call you buy your first and last name i just don t know what s about, it but don lemon has asian. don t upfront me, you know i don t speak french, out there you? i, pretend i m from louisiana, so i pretend. but you, know people do that a lot, it s always hageman, hey don lemon very few people just call me don, so, you know. now you do. all right, laura coates, i ll see you tomorrow. that i get it right? over. she, never mind. by. by. this is don lemon tonight. benny thompson is the committee chair. he tells cnn that the january six committee hasn t decided whether to subpoena mike pence or try to call donald trump to testify. watch this. i think we would benefit from that testimony. they both have, i would think, significant knowledge about what goes on. but we have a committee, and will work thr ....
first january 6th hearing broke the news that prior to trump s rally at the lips that day, those proud boys were actually casing the joint. just to be aware, to be advised, is probably about [inaudible] proud boys, marching eastbound and it s 400 block of independence, actually, towards the, lawn on the united states capitol. they went there 10 am, casing the capitol, at various entry points. on wednesday, we also learned about this nine-page document, strangely titled 1700s 76 returns, because it was filed in federal court by one of the proud boys and it shows their alleged december 2020 plan, including filling eight targeted buildings in the complex with their own footsoldiers and their protesters, whom they call patriots, laying a kind of siege where they could issue demands. but even if they got in, why would they think they would be in a position to hold the building and make demands? again, as the understanding has evolved, as more evidence has come in, they w ....
new york times broke ground in the collective understanding of what happened on january 6th. the proud boys paramilitary group were part of that crowd storming the capitol that day and donald trump had shouted them out before the election. but the way these groups achieved the grave, remarkable active breaching the capitol, during that long schedule national security, event that s not been fully accounted for. that s what we re going to get into right now. because this was, of course, one of the only days of the year that both houses of have congress have all their members gathered, along with the vice president. many people tend to bring their families as well for that swearing in ceremony. and yet they got in, the very first january 6th hearing broke the news that prior to trump s reilly at the ellipse that day, those proud boys were actually casing the joint. just to be aware, to be advise, there s probably about 300 proud boys, marching eastbound and it s 400 bloc ....