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service are backing up the bombshell testimony from a former trump white house aide that an irate president trump demanded to go to the capitol on january 6th. since cassidy hutchinson went under oath, there has been an ongoing campaign by trump and his allies to discredit her testimony about what she saw and heard on january 6th. cnn has now spoken with two secret service employees who both say they also heard about a confrontation inside the presidential suv that day, a story they say spread widely around the agency in the weeks and months that followed january 6th. they say trump indeed demanded to be taken to the capitol and when the secret service said no to the trip, trump berated his security detail, saying something to the effect of, i m the effing president of the united states, you can t tell me what to do. the other concerning development is the new information about who may have been pressuring hutchinson ahead of her sworn testimony. a source tells cnn one ....
cnn has now spoken with two secret service sources who both say they also heard about a confrontation in the presidential suv that day, a story they say was spreading widely inside the agency in the weeks and months that followed january 6th. they say trump indeed demanded to be taken to the capitol, and when the secret service said no to the trip, trump berated his secret service detail. despite that corroboration, trump and his allies have been working in overdrive to discrept hutchinson s testimony about what she saw and heard on january 6th. this lady yesterday, there s something wrong with her. is there something wrong? the woman is living in fantasy land. she s a social climber, if you call that social. she s got serious problems. let me put it that way, mental problems. what d you make of fox news? for this girl to sit there and just i think just make up and again, i hardly know who she is. of course she was a top staffer to the chief of staff at th ....
sworn testimony. the president had a very strong, a very angry response to that. tony described him as being irate. the president said something to the effect of i m the effing president, take me up to the capitol now. that tony you just heard mentioned, hutchinson said the information was relayed to her by tony ornato. cnn s tom foreman takes a closer look at ornato s role inside the white house. the president said something to the effect of i m the effing president, take me up to the capitol now. cassidy hutchinson s story of then president trump lunging at secret service agents january 6th spurred a quick denial from the man she says told her the tale, tony ornato. according to the secret service source, we re not saying this did not happen. so who is tony ornato as a high ranking secret service officer, ornato protected presidents for years. under trump he was given leave to be elevated to a new, unusual, and powerful role, assistant to the president and ....
hutchinson ahead of her sworn testimony. a source tells cnn one person who may have tried to influence her did so at the behest of then white house chief of staff mark meadows. the january 6th committee giving us a taste of that pressure campaign. this is a call received by one of our witnesses, quote, a person let me know you have your deposition tomorrow. he wants me to let you know he s thinking about you. he knows you re loyal and you re going to do the right thing when you go in for your deposition. cnn s ryan nobles is here with the latest. yeah, jim, we are getting more information about the concerns the january 6th select committee has about some of their witnesses being intimidated by the former president donald trump or some of his closest allies, and we re learning that those examples that they provided at the end of their hearing on tuesday were both directed at their star witness, cassidy hutchinson, and at least one of them, the belief is that it was ....
nevada. bill: we ll try to get a fair debate here soon. we ll see what happens in nevada on tuesday. thanks. thanks. dana: house committee investigating the january 6 riot at the u.s. capitol will soon hold its second in a series of public hearings today. they plan to focus on president trump s claims of voter fraud and efforts to overturn the 2020 election results. welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom. i m dana perino. good morning. bill: i m bill hemmer. that hearing delayed a bit as one witness, former trump campaign manager can t testify. he has a family emergency. won t testify today we should say. lawmakers plan to present evidence aimed at showing president trump spread false information to cast doubt on the election. what democrats are calling the big lie. protests take place outside the u.s. supreme court less than a week after the assassination attempt targeting justice brett kavanaugh. an event largely ignored by the networks. brit hume last ....