intelligence available before january 6th identified plans to "invade" the capitol, occupy the capitolke other steps to halt congresses count of electoral votes that day." >> sean: okay, so they all knew the violence was preplanned. now, that brings us to january 5th, 2021. that evening, we now know that the fbi shared intel with the capitol police revealing that some january 6th attendees were plotting and attempt to violently storm the capitol. that is the day before, "an online threat discussed specific calls for violence to include stating to be ready to fight, congress needs to hear glass breaking, the doors being kicked in from the intercepted intel, goes on to say, "get violent, stop calling this a march or rally or protest, go there ready for war." they knew this on the fifth. according to this document on your screen, the capitol police emailed the senate sergeant-at-arms, warning this group that is "promoting the photos of the capitol tunnel system online and stating their goal of blocking them from even entering the capitol. the same revealed rioters are planning to create a

>> walking to the capitol? no. >> driving to the capitol? >> it came up. >> what was discussed? >> he said, i want to go down to the capitol. >> what about him marching january 6? >> yes. tell us about that. >> it is kind of a general thing , i was aware of the desire of the president to potentially march to the -- or accompany the rally attendees to the capitol. >> when did you first hear out this idea of the president accompanying them on the sixth? >> this is after he finished his remarks. >> when the president said he would be going to the capitol, secret service scrambled to find a way for him to go. we know this from witnesses and the secret service. also from messages amongst staff on the president's national security council. staff or monitoring the situation in real time. you can see how the situation evolved, and the following chat logs the committee has obtained. as you can see, staff believed the president was "going to the capitol," and "finding the best right now -- and "they are finding the best route now." they learned about the attack in real time. one president

capitol attack and ongoing investigation. tomorrow we hear from the vi chair of the january 6 committee . life at 9:00 p.m. on c-span. you can also watch on the c-span now video app or online at c-span.org. now available in the c-span shop, c-span's 2022 congressional directory. go there to order a copy of the directory. this spiral-bound book as your guide to the federal government with contact information for every member of congress also contact information for state governors and the biden administration cabinets. order your copy today at c-span shop.org or scan the code with your smart. every purchase helps support c-span's nonprofit organization. next, the january 6 committee hearing in person testimony from cassidy hutchinsowho works as a senior aide to mark meadows. she gives her accounts of the events leading up to the capitol attack and how trump and others reacted to the news of the security breach. ms. hutchinson claims he knew there was arms people trying to attend the rally on july 6 -- january 6. >> the select

capitol. that, i mean,. that, i mean,. >>> we got an answer about the mob that day looking for individual members of congress, hunting down individual lawmakers they wanted to target. the answers we got today were the worst possible answers. we have been looking at this. we've been asking questions about this for a long time, since right after the attack, including multiple segments here on this show talking about it. now, as of today, the whole country looks like we finally know. it started, for us, we first got word of this worst-possible scenario, as i say, right after the january 6th attack. it was a week after january 6th, 2021. congresswoman mikie sherrill, who was a navy veteran, former federal prosecutor, she made a just hair-curling public allegation about other members of congress, republican members of congress. it was very, very worrying, again, one week after january 6th. >> not only do i intend to see that the president is removed and never runs for office again and doesn't have access to class

they for the men and women ofhe the capitol police force or for the lawmakers in that capitol building, they were making a political bui statement and that's why they turned downl this out that same night when the deputy police chief sean gallagher begins c getting this information coming in from the fbi. there are two waves of, fbi information that come in between five o'clock and about nine thirtyth on the night. the first one is a what weene would call an intelligenceca warning. gi it comes from norfolk, virginia and it's very specific. there's going to t be youhe read some of it, there's going b to be violence. they want to breach the capitol. they want to target lawmakers. t very clear what they're trying to do a few hoursrs after the national threat center, the fbi here in washington, c. began getting information from our website. a website owner said, hey,a i'm seeing some weird activity of some of the people talking about going to the capitol tomorrowinoi. i don't like to look at this . would you look at and they start pulling down and they see the people coming out. the bad ac

capitol . and so they did so at the encouragement of the president of the united states. the president of the united states, trying to stop the transfer of power. a president that had stood for 220 years, even as our democracy had faced his most difficult test. thinking back again to the civil war in the summer of 1864, the president of the united states believed we would be doomed his bid for reelection. he believed his opponent, general george mclaren, would waive the white flag when it came to preserving -- but even with that grim face hanging in the balance, >> president lincoln was ready to accept. he made a quiet pledge. he wrote down the words, this morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this administration will not be reelected. then it would be my duty to so cooperate with the president elect. it will be my duty. lincoln fielded that memo and asked his cabinet secretaries to sign it sight unseen. he asked them to make the same commitment he did to accept def

>> walking to the capitol, no. >> driving to the capitol? >> it came up. >> how did it come up and what was discussed? >> he brought it up, he want i want to go to the capitol. >> what about him marching to the capitol on the 6th? >> yes. >> tell us about that. >> so kind of a general thing, get into the specifics of it -- i was aware of a desire of the president to potentially march to, or accompany the rally attendees to the capitol. >> when did you first hear about the idea of the president accompanying rally attendees to the capitol on the 6th. >> this was the 6th, during the, after he finished his remarks. >> when the president said he would be going to the capitol during his speech on the ellipse, the secret service scrambled to find a way to go. we know from witnesses and the secret service, also from messages of the national security council. they were monitoring in realtime and see how the situation evolved in the following chat log the committee has obtained. as you can see, n.s.c. staff believed mogul, the president, was "going to

capitol. mr. trump then used his free hand to lunge towards him and he recounted the story to me he motioned towards his clavicle. >> now just to be clear that's cassidy hitch hutchen son testifying what she says she was told by a secret service agent. we got reporting saying after the testimony, a secret service official familiar with the matter told cnn tony the secret service agent in question denies telling cassidy hiutchenson the story. that he grabbed the steering and wheel and lunged for an agent. we'll have more on this shortly. she recounted scenes of donald trump throwing plates and overturning table settings in fits of rage. >> jake, the depth of the rage and meadows detachment on january 6. here's the taped testimony about efforts to get the former president to stop the violence that day. >> not long after the rioters broke into the capitol, you described what happened with white house council pat cipollone. >> no more than a minute, minute and a half later i say pat cipollone barr

we're going to walk down to the capitol. >> and the crowd as we know did proceed to the capitol. it soon became apparent to the secret service, including the secret service teams in the crowd, along with the white house staff, that security at the capitol would not be sufficient. in ago vice chair of the committee liz cheney questioning cassidy husted -- cassidy hutchinson. when we come back, cassidy hutchinson accuses donald trump of attacking his own presidential secret service agent january 6 after the agent refused to drive trump to the capitol to join the armed mob gathering outside congress. stay with us. ♪♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. as we bring you highlights of tuesday surprise hearing about the house select committee to investigate the january 6 attack on the united states capitol. we return to cassidy hutchinson, former aide to trump's white house chief of staff mark meadows, questioned by republican committee co-chair liz cheney about what happened january 6 when then president trump motorcad

the capitol. who sought to thwart the will of the people, to stop the transfer of power, and so they did so at the encouragement of the president of the united states. the president of the united states trying to stop the transfer of power, a precedent that had stood for 220 years, even as our democracy had faced its most difficult test. thinking back again to the civil war, in the summer of 1864, the president of the united states believed we would be doomed to his bid for re-election. he believed his opponent, general george mcclellan, would wave the white flag when it came to preserving the union, but even with that grim fate hanging in the balance, president lincoln was ready to accept the will of the voters come what may. he made a quiet pledge. he wrote down the words, "this morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this administration will not be re-elected. then it will be my duty to so cooperate with the president-elect. it will be my duty." lincoln sealed that me

>> we have a breach of the capitol! breach of the capitol! on the upper level. >> be advised they're asking additional resources on the east side as they have broken through that window and they're trying to kick it in. >> without objection, the chair declares the house in recess, pursuant to clause 12-b, of rule 1. >> mike pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution. giving states a chance to certify a corrected set of facts. not the inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. the u.s. demands the truth. >> hang mike pence. >> bring it o on! >>>> bring g out pence! >> hang mike pence! hang mike pence! hang mike pence! >> you pepper sprayed someone fighting for you! >> whose house? >> our house! >> we can't hold this. we have too many fucking people. we're fucked. >> we need an area 4"b," house members, they're all walking over now, through the tunnels. >> we're trying to hold the upper deck. we are trying to hold the upper deck now! we need to hold the doors of t

capitol. the january 6th committee revealing its findings to the american people. the never before seen images, the testimony, the depositions. abc news team coverage of the prime time hearing starts now. >>> this is an abc news special. the seat of democracy attacked. was there a conspiracy to overthrow an election? tonight, the search for answers. what exactly happened? >> before. >> you'll never take back our country with weakness. >> during. >> storm the capitol! >> hang mike pence! >> all we want is pelosi! >> and after. >> we will not be kept out of this clhamber by thugs, mobs, o threats. >> january 6th will go down as one of the darkest days in recent american history. >> attack on the capitol. the investigation. now reporting, david muir. >> good evening. we are coming on the air tonight because the nation is about to witness a defining moment. the first hearing before the country, the results of the january 6th investigation. the house committee investigating for nearly a year now, l

tweet the crowds both outside the capitol and inside the capitol surged. the crowds inside capitol were able to overwhelm the law enforcement presence and the vice president was quickly evacuated from his ceremonyial senate office to a secure location within the capitol complex. 2:24 p.m. the secret service improved mike pence across the hall >> the noise became audible at which potent we recognized maybe they had got end into the building, president trump tweeted mike pence didn't have the courage to do what should have done to protect our country and constitution giving states a chance to certify a corrected set of facts not the fraudulent or inaccurate one which they were asked to previously certify. usa demands the truth. >> bring him out. >> it was clear that it was escalating and escalating quickly. so then when that tweet that mike pence tweet was sent out, i remember us saying that that was the last thing that needed to be tweeted at that moment. the situation was already bad. and so it felt like he was pouring gasoline on the fire by tweeting that

>> walking to the capitol? no. >> driving to the capitol? >> it came up. >> okay.d what was discussed? >> he brought it up. he said i want to go down to the capitol. >> what about him marching to the capitol on the 6th? >> yes. >> tell us about that. >> so, it's kind of a general thing. i mean, to get into the specifics of it, i -- i was aware of a desire of the president to potentially march to the -- or accompany the rally attendees to the capitol. >> when did you first hear about this idea of the president accompanying rallying attendees to the 6th. >> this was at the 6th. this was during the -- after he finished his remarks. >> when the president said that he would be going to the capitol during his speech on the ellipse, the secret service scrambled to find a way for him to go. we know this from witnesses and the secret service. also from messages among staff on the president's national security counsel. the nse staff were monitoring the situation in realtime. and you can see how the situation e evolved in the following chat log that the committee has obtained

capitol police but says the u.s. capitol police looked into this question of whether they were tours the day before the attack. and yeah, there was a tour led by congressman barry loudermilk, the british or nothing suspicious happened in that door. since the tour didn't go into the capital building itself. , butler didn't go into the building with the big rotunda, in the house and senate jane chambers. i say this with a strange letter from the u.s. capitol because who cares whether barry latter mix was -- complex. this is a strange assertion, from the capitol police that the tour wasn't suspicious, because it didn't go into the capital building itself. it's like if you're investigating an arson, saying yeah, we do have doorbell camera footage of a guy standing on the front stab holding a gas can and let opens up. [laughs] but we didn't see him set that front door on fire, so probably that guy didn't set the rest of the house on fire. he was just passing by. no sign of potential arson here. your. clear. that's somewha

capitol? >> it was to succeed where he had failed through any other means, and that was to stop the transfer of power, to overturn the election, to cling to his office. and chris, i think you put your finger on what was most important, in my view, in the testimony yesterday. and that is, when the president was told this crowd was armed, they wouldn't go through the magnetometer's because, if they did, they would have the weapons taken away, the presidents response wasn't good, we don't want them to have weapons, the president's response was, take the magnetometer's down. he wanted them to be able to march with him to the capitol armed. and so his knowledge, his intent, i think, we got the most direct view of that in the testimony is today. the fact that when that attack was going on, having been frustrated in his efforts to accompany this armed mob, he is sitting in the safety of the white house, he is asked over and over to do something about it. but he won't do anything about it because he t

we they are trying to reach into the capitol-— the capitol. we copy. chanting:. - the capitol. line. we are _ chanting:. hold the line. hold the line. we are trying - chanting:. hold the line. hold the line. we are trying to - chanting:. hold the line. lec the line. we are trying to make our way through this.— our way through this. open it! 0 en it! go! go! go! into the upper level, break— go! go! go! into the upper level, break in _ go! go! go! into the upper level, break in the - go! go! go! into the upper level, break in the capitol. under— level, break in the capitol. under the east side, they are trying to kick in the window. without objection, as the chair declares — without objection, as the chair declares that house in... chanting: bring out pence! screaming.— we cannot hold this. there are too many fucken people. we need an area for the house members. they are walking down the tunnel. irate members. they are walking down the tunnel-— the tunnel. we are trying to hold the upper— the tunnel. we are trying to hold the upper area - the tunnel. we are trying to hold the upp

capitol? remember, he's asking for the secret service agent to put themselves in peril. if he is now going to not have the where with all to protect himself and be naive about what violence could happen. he's asking those he later he assaulted to do that. they're marching towards the line of succession. the vice president is in the capitol. the house speaker in is the capitol. the president pro tem is in the capitol. you're going to have to go down to the fourth person in line for the idea of the power of democracy. pat cipollone said it best through hutchinson. that if they go down to the capitol, they will be charged with all sorts of crimes, including some of the ones that liz cheney has been speaking about. the idea of obstructing an official proceeding. trying to defraud the united states. all this comes down to the state of mind. what you knew when you knew it. for the president of the united states to be aware two to three minutes before going on stage that there was an armed crowd of p

capitol." mr. trump then used his free hand to lunge towards bobby angle and when mr. runottau recounted the story, he motioned near his clavicles. >> that's cassidy hutchinson testifying about what she was told by a secret service agent. we got this information from josh campbell and ryan nobles. they say a secret service official familiar with the matter told tony denies telling cassidy hutchinson that story, that the former president grabbed the steering wheel and/or lunged towards the agent. cassidy hutchinson recounted mr. trump over turning tables in fits of rage. >> and mark meadows' detachment the 6th. and here's about efforts to get the former president to stop the violence that day. >> not long after the rioters broke into the capitol, you described what happened with white house counsel, pat. >> no more than a minute, minute and a half later, i see pat barrelling towards the office and said is mark in his office? and i said yes. he looked at me and started shaking his head. and went

capitol! upper level! >> be advised, questioning additional resources, eastside has a [inaudible] trying to kick it in. >> without objection, the chair declares the house in recess, pursuant to clause 12 b. rule 1. >> mike pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done, to protect our country and our constitution. giving the chance to certify the correct set of facts. [inaudible] inaccurate one which they were previously asked to certify. the u.s. demands the truth. [inaudible] >> hang mike pence. >> hang mike pence, hang mike pence! >> hang mike pence! [inaudible] >> can't restrain [inaudible] [noise] [inaudible] [inaudible] [noise] [inaudible] [noise] [inaudible] [noise] [noise] [noise] [noise] >> we can tell this, we are going to continue [inaudible] [noise] >> we need -- i need a full. the house members, they are all walking over now, to the tunnels. we are trying to hold the [inaudible] we are trying to [inaudible] walk the upper deck now. we need the hold the doors of the

[bleep] [background sounds] knox. >> 50, we have a breach at the capitol! breach of the capitol! the upper level. >> be advised, they're requesting additional resources on the east side as they broke into that window and they're trying to kick it in. >> without objection, the chair declares the house in recess pursuant to clause 12b of rule one. >> mike pence didn't have t been done to protect our country and states a chance to certify or correct -- [inaudible] inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. u.s. demands the truth. [inaudible conversations] [background sounds] >> [inaudible] [bleep] [inaudible conversations] [background sounds] [bleep] [background sounds] >> we can't hold [bleep] look at this. [inaudible] >> we need -- house members, they're all walking over now through the tunnels. >> [inaudible] >> we're trying to hold the upper deck. we are trying to hold the upper deck now. we need to halt the doors of the capitol. i need -- [inaudible] [background sounds] >> [inaudible] >> we've lost the line, we've lost the line. get back! up to the upper deck.

we're not going to the capitol. mr. trump then used his free hand to lunge towards bobby engel and when mr. arenado recounted this story he mentioned towards his clavicle. >> reporter: a secret service agent familiar with the matter said arenado denies trump grabbed the steering wheel or agent. they said that the agents involved are prepared to testify under oath that the incident did not occur. the committee standing behind hutchinson's account while encouraging others with information to come forward. >> look, i believe cassidy hutchinson, i think she is a very, smart, capable, honest individual. she has no incentive to make up something that isn't true. >> reporter: the committee also says it has evidence that has emerged of witness tampering. liz cheney presented several messages from witnesses saying they have been pressured from trump allies to say the right thing. cheney says the committee is taking it seriously and indicated they're looking into next steps, something that could potentially indicate a possible cr

capitol. >> and then we went for lunch. we went to talk to us. >> so mister quested, you injure a less. so you are careful to stick to things that you have there. what you told us. is highly relevant. let me highlight a few key facts that you and others have provided the committee. first, there was a large group of proud boys present at the capitol. we know that from multiple sources. you now estimate that there were around 250 to 300 individuals that you testify. they want their for president's trump's speech. we know this because they left that area to march toward the capital before the speech began. they walked around the capitol that morning. i'm concerned this allowed them to see what defenses well in place and where weaknesses might be. and they decided to launch their attack. it depicts the circle, which is a front door of the capitol complex. it's the first secure the perimeter that those marching from they lips would have to come to as they move toward the capital. the piece circle w

capitol following the january 6 attack. it is just under an hour. >> subcommittee will come together to discuss the budget. the director of the office was also scheduled to join us but he cannot join us because he is in medical quarantine. we wish you well. let me begin by thinking the woman and men who preserve and protect the senate. you ensure we are safe not just members of staff, but the millions of visitors that are returning. our cyber space and infrastructure are also secure. during the pandemic, both the senate and house have continued to meet which means many of employees have had to show up. they provide the capital campus with food service and critical i.t. enhancement for remote work. then the january 6 attack happened adding a whole new wave while maintaining an open campus environment so that all people can share this special place. we want to make sure they have the tools needed to continue keeping a safe and keep up with known and emerging threats. balancing openness with needs is not cheap. the budget requ

>> walking to the capitol? no. >> driving to the capitol?it came up. >> how did it come up and what was discussed? >> he brought it up and he said i want to go down to the capitol. >> what about him marching to the capitol on the 6th? >> yes. >> tell us about that. >> so, it was just a general thing, i was aware of a desire of the president to potentially march to, or accompany the rally attendees to the capitol. >> when did you first hear about this idea of the president accompanying rally attendees? >> this was at the 6th, after he finished his remarks. >> when the president said he would be going to the capitol after his speech the secret service scrambled to find a way for him to go. we know this from witnesses and the secret service. also from messages among staff on the president's national security council. the staff was monitoring the situation in realtime and you can see how the situation evolved in the following chat log that the community obtained. as you can see, staff believed that mogul, the president, was going to the capitol.

capitol attack. over the last 11 months, the committee has conducted more than 1000 closed-door interviews and issued nearly 100 subpoenas to gain a clearer picture of what happened on january 6. this first hearing included taped depositions from former white house officials and newly released video of security breach. there was also testimony from a u.s. capitol police officer and a documentary filmmaker who were at the capital on the day of the attack. [gavel bangs] >> the select committee to investigate the january 6 attack on the united states capital will be in order. without objection, the chairs off the wire -- authorized to declare the committee and recess at any point. pursuant to house deposition authority regulation 10, the chair announces the committee's approval to release the deposition material presented during tonight's hearing. thanks to everyone watching tonight for sharing parts of your evening to learn the thoughts and causes of the events leading up to and including the violent a

>> there's a lot of finger-pointing with the capitol police board which is the architect of the capitole house the house sergeant-at-arms in the senate sergeant at arms. they're the ones that have to declare the emergency to get the national guard they are. when i know through my research is that how sergeant at arms who is no longer there, he was waiting to get approval from leadership the article the approval from leadership is nancy pelosi. >> laura: fungus mcdonald , they aren't really content to punish people who broke the law or political opponents for that matter. what they perceived to be a tax, but once they are sure of going to happen going forward. watch. >> our work must doom much more than look backwards because of our mock rc remains in danger, the conspiracy of the will of the people is not over >> laura: if they lose in the midterm, is that part of their erosion of democracy they're worried about? >> i believe so. i watch the entire two hours of the mess and the reality is that all they are doing is trying to paint a new political narrative that voters need to think abou

capitol.bers heard from two witnesses, a police officer who was injured at a, and a documentarian who was embedded with the proud boys. this is just over an hour and 40 minutes. [gavel bangs] >> the select committee to investigate the january 6 attack on the united states capital will be in order. without objection, the chairs off the wire -- authorized to declare the committee and recess at any point. pursuant to house deposition ryone watching tonight for sharing parts of your evening to learn the thoughts and causes of the events leading up to and including the violent attack on january 6, 2021. our democracy, electoral system, and country. i am bennie thompson, chairman of the january 6, 20 committee. i was born, raised and still live in bolton, mississippi. a town with a population of 521, which is midway between jackson and vicksburg, mississippi, and the mississippi river. i'm from a part of the country where people justified the actions of slavery, the coop -- the ku klux klan and lync

capitol. >> the president of the united states, his chief of staff, his closest advisers, preparing for the violence, and then, trying to save themselves. >> i recall hearing the word, oath keepers. and hearing the word, proud boys, closer to the plan of the january 6th rally, when mr. giuliani was present. >> did white house chief of staff mark meadows ever indicate that he was interested in receiving a presidential pardon related to january 6th? >> yes, ma'am. >> tonight, one of the members of the january 6th investigation, congresswoman elaine luria. plus, joy reid, chris hayes, lawrence o'donnell, ari melber, nicole wallace, simone sanders, all here for our special primetime recap of today's hearing from the january 6th investigation. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> good evening. i'm rachel maddow here at the msnbc mothership in new york city, with some of my beloved colleagues. lawrence o'donnell is here. ari melber is here, the great joy reid, chris hayes. we're gonna be joined by other colleagues tonight, sim

capitol that day.e for that, in terms of whether or not this was the intentional violence he set out to create and was therefore enjoying it. but once the country was at that level of threat, the vice president pence tried to call in all of those assets to defend the country and the president made no call for any of them to do anything to stop the harm. does that resonate in a new way today after this hearing. i >> think it does. i think americans, as partisan as we are right now, we saw with ukraine. there is still a desire -- moments of crisis -- moments we want a president to bring us together. we really do. and a moment of crisis -- and i can picture trump, because i know exactly that dining room. i know exactly how he was sitting there, watching a bank of television screens. he watched them break those windows. he watched them attack police officers. this was the president of the united states, watching capitol police officers be attacked. and violence. and someone being shot! and he thinks it's a

breach of the capitol!e advised they are requesting additional resources as they broke in the window and trying to kick it in. amy: joe biggs enters the capitol. >> without objection, recessed pursuant to clause 12 the of roll 1. amy: outside. amy: there is a hangman's noose outside. >> house members -- amy: leader mccarthy. amy: police are being attacked outside. >> we have lost the line. we have lost the line. all pd fall back. amy: inside, the crowd chants "nancy." >> be advise the capitol police are moving resources inside. there are officers hurt. amy: oath keepers our approach central east door. it is 2:38 p.m. oath keepers enter building. >> with doors barricaded, people caught in the hallways who have no way out. >> officers still remain on the house floor. prepared to evacuate. copy. >> it is up to us people now, the american people. >> what are you ready to do? >> whatever it i will lay down my life. that is why we showed up today. pres. trump: there were peaceful people. the crowd was unbelievabl

capitol.acked with never before seen video and testimony. the select house committee is aiming to draw a direct line between the deadly insurrection and then-president donald trump. they want to make the case that the former president was at the center of a well-organized conspiracy to overthrow the results of a legitimate election. our correspondents are digging for new information as we head into the hearing. ryan nobles and manu raju are on capitol hill, jamie gangel is with us in the studio, bryan, let me start with you, the members of the january 6th select committee, bipartisan group, they're very aware of the high expectations tonight. tell us more about that and who is going to be in the room watching the proceedings. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, jake, no doubt the committee members understand that this is their first opportunity to present what they've been working on the past 11 months and also very aware it has been a year and a half since the violence and chaos took place on ja

the president then urging the crowd to go the capitol. and she testified the former president wanted to be to the capitol, too, and what she says she was told, how he reacted when the secret service told him they were taking him back to the white house instead, telling him it wasn't safe. she says she was told he lunged at the secret service agent. cassidy hutchinson, 26 years old, she sat just down the hall from the oval office. a loyal trump aide, she testified about when she became concerned, scared about what could happen on january 6th. the disturbing incidents she says she witnessed. four days before january 6th, she said she escorted rudy giuliani out of the white house and that he asked her if she was excited about january 6th, saying the president would be going to the capitol. when she asked her own boss, former chief of staff mark meadows, about that, she testified he said, "there's a lot going on and things might get real, real bad on january 6th." then on the morning of january 6th, she testified reports started coming in of

we're not going to the capitol. mr. trump then used his free hand to lunge toward bobby engle and when had recounted this story to me, motioned towards his clavicles. >> and was mr. engle in the room as mr. ornato told you this story? >> he was. >> did mr. engle correct or disagree with any part of the story from mr. ornato? >> mr. engle did not correct or disagree with any part of the story. >> did mr. engle or ornato after that tell you that what mr. ornato said was untrue. >> neither told me ever that it was untrue. >> trump in part, denying some of the damning claims from hutchinson's testimony she made under oath. pamela brown is out front live on capitol hill. what more are you learning tonight. >> reporter: erin, i spoke to a capitol police officer who was here on january 6th and heard the hearing today, said he felt a sense of betrayal listening to cassidy hutchinson's testimony, relaying the warning signs chief of staff and mark meadows willfully ignored time and time again and while it was shocking to white ho

the capitol. who sought to fraught the will of the people to stop the transfer of power. and so they did, at the encouragement of the president of the united states, the president of the united states trying to stop the transfer of power. a precedent that had stood for 220 years, even as our democracy had faced its most difficult test. inking back again to the civil war in the summer of 1864, the president of the united states believed he would be doomed for his bid to reelection. he believed his opponent, general george mcclellan, would wave the white flag when it came to preserving the union. but even with that grim fate hanging in the balance, president lincoln ready to accept the will of the voters, come what may. he made a quiet pledge. he wrote down the words, this morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this administration will not be reelecting, and it would be my duty to so cooperate with the president-elect. it will be my duty. lincoln sealed that memo and aske

in fact, wanted to join them at the capitol.one senior house republican, someone who did not vote for impeachment we should point out told me they thought there would be indictments after this testimony potential for mark meadows or trump himself. another republican was joking with me after watching the hearing they wanted to throw their lunch against the wall which is something we heard trump apparently did whenever he was angry. another republican said they thought this hearing shed light on trump's state of mind on january 6. they said this does show how emotionally trump was in the january 6 events. he really cared about what was happening at the capitol. he wanted to be a part of it. now, again, the fact that they are not saying it on the record i think is also really telling. as of right now there are no signs that trump's support at least on capitol hill is waning and all these republicans that i talked to also said that they still don't think any of this is going to matter in the upcoming midterms. at the very least it s

to the capitol to stop the count. white house lawyers have been trying for days to try to get him not to do that, because it could result in charges, in the results words of pat cipollone, every crime imaginable. white house lawyers were trying right up to the morning of his speech on january 6th to try to get him not to say certain things that could incite the crowd to violence. and then, backstage that morning, trump makes clear that he wants his armed supporters allowed into his rally, so they can march on the capitol from there. legal experts who spoke to the new york times today said that, quote, knowing that his crowd of supporters had the means to be violent when he exhorted them to march to the capitol the clear that he wanted to go with him could nudge mr. trump closer to facing criminal charges. one justice department official tells the times, quote, what just happened changed my bottom line. i have gone from trump's lesson less than likely to be charged to he is more than likely to be charged. even trump's