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tonight s other top headlines: how long the socialite who help jeffrey epstein abuse young girls will face behind bars. plus the rush on the morning after pill after the supreme court abortion ruling. and the new details in the deadly migrant tragedy in texas. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us on this busy tuesday night. as we detail for you the bombshell testimony today in the january 6 hearing. history is important. during the watergate hearings 50 years ago, there was only one surprise witness. it was alexander butterfield, who revealed there was a white house taping system. well, in the january 6 hearings, the surprise witness is cassidy hutchinson. then-chief of staff mark meadows top aide described the then-president s fits of rage, that included throwing plates of food, grabbing the steering wheel of the presidential limo and lunging at a s ....
Let s just watch it one more time. that s just too cool. captioning sponsored by cbs o donnell: tonight, for the first time, we hear what happened inside the trump white house on january 6 from someone who saw it happen, and how the former president wanted to join the riots on capitol hill. the dramatic testimony about donald trump grabbing the wheel of the presidential motorcade. the president said something to the effect of, i m the evan efeffin president, take me to the capitol now. mr. trump then used his free hand to lumpleg towards bobby engle. o donnell: president trump was warned for days not to interfere with the electoral count of the votes by his own white house counsel. ....
Wheel of the presidential limo and lunging at a secret service agent. hutchinson said trump was furious that secret service agents were keeping some of his supporters outside of the white house ellipse because they had weapons. the other big news we learned today is that rudy giuliani and the president s chief of staff sought pardons. that means we now know of at least nine individuals who sought pardons from president trump in the final days of his term. let s get straight to cbs scott macfarlane at the capitol with all the new details. good evening, scott. reporter: the house committee and this 26-year-old former aide to the former white house chief of staff painted a powerful picture, beginning with the trump white house, ignoring warnings of looming violence at the capitol, and ending with the chief of staff seeking that presidential pardon. when the day began, cassidy hutchinson was a name and face unknown to most americans. by the end of the day, she d made history, including ....
o donnell: stunning, really. jeff pegues, that was part of it. president trump knew there would be violence. what about other law enforcement? reporter: yeah, and that s a good point. early on, on january 6, the white house, we found out today, was getting warnings about the potential for violence. in fact, there were rep reportst some people were there in the crowd armed with ar-15s or handguns, even spears. and, yet, the inclination was, hey, let s not beef up security. let s lessen the security there because president trump wanted his supporters there. and as you know, i was in in te crowd that day at the capitol, and it was clear to me and others at the scene that police were outnumbered. it took hours for the national guard to shoip. so this testimony today, norah, raised serious questions about security that day. o donnell: jeff pegues, thank you. robert costa, what happens now? we are at a historic crossroads. all eyes turn to attorney general merrick garland. does he l ....
Moments of the hearing, hutchinson said both mark meadows and rudy giuliani sought pardons. trump respondd to the hearing saying hutchinson s story was a fake story and that he hardly knew her. norah. o donnell: scott macfarlane, thank you. let s turn to our esteemed political team who were all here watching this unfold with me. john dickerson, there was a lot that made today different. reporter: there was. we ve seen the outside picture on january 6. what this was today was the inside, intimate portrait, the closest look we ve gotten to president trump on that day and his inner circle. and we were given that view by somebody who had a unique perch. hutchinson worked for the chief of staff. that is like being in the air traffic control tower of a white house. so she witnessed the frantic lawyers running through the hall, the plea from members of congress, and her boss who wilted in the faceave president who was encouraging violence, ignoring the warnings, and even lunging at a secr ....