reporter: just steps away from the president, david. but the presformer president is a flurry of statements while the hearing was still under way, attacking cassidy hutchinson, denying what she said. two things are clear, one, donald trump was watching this hearing, and the second thing is, that cassidy hutchinson s testimony clearly struck a nerve with him. and jon, we re also hearing tonight from the former chief of staff before mark meadows, mick mulvaney, who tweeted that he knows cassidy hutchinson and that he believes her. reporter: he said that and mulvaney said that the testimony was explosive and he predicted that others close to trump, as a result of testimony, would be testifying themselves soon.f tonight. jon, thank you. and one more question on this, so, let s bring in our chief justice correspondent pierre thomas, because this was a significant piece of testimony, pierre. cassidy hutchinson saying she was told that the former president lunged at that secret servic
Kristen: tha tonight, the revealing testimony before the american people. a former white house aide inside the west wing describing former president trump the morning of january 6th, saying he wanted security to allow armed protesters inside his speech. and she testified that she was told the former president later in the presidential suv lunged at a secret service agent when the president was told they could not take him to the capitol. cassidy hutchinson, a top aide to mark meadows, whose own desk was just down the hall from the oval office, testifying about the crucial days just before january 6th and then about the day itself. there for the president s speech at the ellipse that morning. she said she heard the president say, let the protesters who are armed in. the president saying, they re