engel, and others. the president became desperate, entering the new year, with january 6th fast approaching. he rushed back from mar-a-lago on january 1st, and called a emergency meeting with the departments leadership. here is mr. donoghue describing the last minute -- >> the president was a little more agitated than he had been in the meeting on the 15th. he discussed a variety of election matters. he did say, this sounds like the kind of thing that would want the appointment of special counsel. there was a point at which the president said something about one of you guys seized machines. >> mr. rosen, the president asked you to seize voting machines from state governments. what was your response to that request? >> that we had seen nothing improper with regard to the voting machines and i told him that the real experts of that had been a dhs and they had briefed us that they had looked at it and that there was nothing wrong with the voting machines. and so, that was not something that was appropriate

you will still grow up with me, and a few days later engels woke up at night from an incomprehensibleyou will not believe, uh, at the third hour some kind of children's voice is like this, or as if a cat says, dad help. dad help wake up. and what the hell, there was nothing else in the yard at home. i drank sedatives at five o'clock. dad help. dad help, damn it, all went out woke up i go out into the courtyard on the street, there is nothing, 5:15 calls. tells the temple how the man died. this is how it happened. the father went to pick up the body of his son to bury him in the family cemetery, and at that time, engels began to receive threats from militants who had previously fought in the caucasus and now they became mercenaries in our battalions in ukraine when i called in stavropol. i have already begun to call your son, our seconded. you are a jackal, you are going, yes, we will destroy you. this is from the other side of you traits. damn, i don't know ukrainian the numbers he had blown up would have done the right thing. i say, you should have been destroyed by the devils. damn

she told me the committee expects to talk to agents engel and ornato again. do you expect that that testimony will be live testimony, under oath like her testimony, and for the world to see? >> i think it is important that their testimony be under oath, and i understand very much the difficulty and the challenges that are presented when you are trying to protect somebody and the relationship that exists there. but that they have an obligation to testify truthfully to the committee. >> jon karl back with us now from washington. and jon, cassidy hutchinson testified that white house counsel pat cipollone was adamantly opposed to the idea of president trump going to the capitol on january 6th. cipollone, we know, has now been subpoenaed to testify. where does that stand now? >> reporter: i'm told, whit, that conversations are under way between cipollone's attorneys and the committee about an appearance. there is no agreement yet, but here's the interesting thing. both sides say that they believe that ultimately cipollone will testify before the committee. what k

engels magomedovich, the people's hero of the caucasus, at one time fought wahhabis in the mountains,d in the ministry of internal affairs of the chechen republic, kabardino-balkaria. ingushetia graduated from the academy of the ministry of internal affairs and the russian the academy of civil service was awarded three orders of courage, a medal for courage and a medal for military merit. the son took after his father. always asked him for advice. and having sent this photo, nurmagomed was interested in his father. what is the best jacket to take? father wrote. take a size up. you will still grow up with me, and a few days later engels woke up at night from an incomprehensible anxiety. you will not believe, uh, at the third hour some kind of children's voice is like this, or as if a cat says, dad help. dad help wake up. and what the hell is still in the yard there was nothing at home. i drank sedatives at five o'clock. dad help. dad help me, damn it, woke up without going out, i went out into the yard on the street, there was nothing, 5:15 calls. tells the temple how the man died. thi

engel did not correct or disagree with any part of the story. >> did mr. engel or mr. ornato after that tell you that what mr. ornato said was untrue. >> neither mr. ornato or mr. engel told me ever that it was untrue. >> while neither source says they heard about trump trying to grab the steering wheel, they did say this. nobody said trump assaulted him, they said he tried to lunge over the seat. for what reason, they had no idea. we're also learning new details about the attempt to influence hutchinson's testimony, multiple sources telling cnn someone on behalf of mark meadows contacted hutchinson before testified and that is crucial because hutchinson was one of his top aides and we know now, the details presented in the hearing were directed towards hutchinson and what was the message? listen. >> 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. >> hutchins

engel correct or disagree with any part of the story? >> he did not. >> did mr. engel or mr. orinato ever after that tell you what mr. engel had said was untrue. >> either ever told me it was untrue. >> a secret service agent now denies that trump grabbed the steering wheel or an agent, but cnn did speak to two secret service staffers who said that for more than a year similar stories had been circulating inside the agency about trump's behavior before and on january 6, this is as cnn also learns the u.s. secret service erased text messages from the day before and on the day of the insurrection. deleted after investigators requested them according to the inspector general, an allegation the secret service denies. and the january 6 committee member adam kinzinger tells the "wall street journal" the committee is still weigh ing ovr asking donald trump to testify and whether to subpoena mike pence or request a written interview. the committee has tspoken to to aides but so far pence has given no indication that he wants to engage with the committee. only saying this back in febr

his father engels can see his son. only in the photo is the star of the hero awarded posthumously making this step so that they are not the first to enter. they could give us big problems. we are going to their ancestral village to visit the grave of the one who on february 24, 2022 , the floor in which nurmagomed served was involved in the special military operation of the russian armed forces to protect the donetsk and luhansk people's republics that began then. commander of the guard company senior lieutenant nurmagomedzh. magomedov was in the colony of the tactical group, which moved forward for occupation , thankful, which would ensure the deployment of forces in the southern direction. he was among those who first entered the battle, his car was hit then nurmagomed, left it and immediately opened fire on attackers, which diverted their attention and made it possible for his fighters to disperse and take up all-round defense. during a fierce battle. he was in the most dangerous area, having been wounded, he contin

engel correct or disagree with any part of this story? >> mr. engel did not correct or disagree with any part of the story. >> did they ever after that tell you that what he just said was untrue? >> neither mr. engel or the other told me it was ever untrue. >> now that officer with dc metropolitan police department who was right there in the motorcade firsthand witness is corroborating details of what cassidy hutchinson told the committee and we have new reporting tonight which we will bring you in just a moment on the question of loss or erased, secret service text messages from january 5 and january 6 but i want to get right to that reporting now, first on cnn and dc police officer who talked to the january 6 committee is corroborating details of what happened in the president's suv when he tried to go to the capital after his rally and they are both here, hello to all of you, i want to start with you evan because you have the report and the secret service is responding that they had deleted text messages from january 5 and six, can you tell u

trump then used his free hand to lunge towards bobby engel. mr. engel and mr. ornado recounted the story to me, he motioned towards his clavicle's. >> was mr. engel in the room as mr. ornado told a story? >> he was. >> did mr. engel correct or disagree with any part of the story for mr. ornado? >> mr. engel did not correct or disagree with any part of the story. >> did mr. engel or mr. ornado after that say that what he said was untrue? >> neither mr. ornado or mr. engel said it was untrue. >> despite this physical altercation during the ride back to the white house, president trump still demanded to go to the capitol. here is what kayleigh mcenany, the white house press secretary at the time wrote in her personal notes and told a committee about president trump's desire to go to the capitol after returning to the white house. >> when you wrote that potus wanted to walk to the capitol, was that based solely on what the president said during his speech or anything that he or anyone else said afterwards? >> that is my recollection. i believe that when we got back

engel correct or disagree with any part of this story from mr. ornato? >> he did not. >> did they after that tell you what mr. ornato had just said was untrue? >> neither mr. ornato nor mr. engel ever told me it was untrue. >> so there's new reporting on that tonight as well as the apparent attempt to influence ms. hutchinson's testimony. cnn's ryan nobles is up on capitol hill for was more. what more are you learning about that alleged incident in the presidential suv back on january 6th? >> reporter: well, of course if you know that this is in dispute because soon after hutchinson's testimony, officials from the secret service started coming out saying they were prepared to refute part of what she had to say and they also followed up by saying both tony and bobby, the two agents in question would will willing to testify under oath and dispute part of what she said, specifically, that the former president made an effort to grab ahold of the steering wheel and there was some sort of physical altercation with bobby engel. what we have learned talking to t

engel correct or disagree with any part of the story? >> he did not correct or disagree with any part of the story. >> did mr. engel ever come after that, tell you that what was said was untrue? >> neither told me ever that it was untrue. >> okay. now you have someone who was there. not just her hearing about it, someone who was there with that detail, telling you what happened. the secret service official has denied that trump grabbed the steering wheeled, but cnn spoke to secret service staffers who said that for more than here, stories have been circulating about the behavior trump before and on january 6. now you have someone who was there talking about this heated exchange, corroborating the account by cassidy hutchinson. this comes as we learn the u.s. secret service erased text messages from the day of the insurrection and the day before, deleted those messages after investigators requested them. this is according to a department of homeland security inspector general. that is important. now committee member adam kinzinger tells t

mister engel did not refute what mister or said. the second witness is retired sergeant mark robinson of the dc police department who was assigned to the president's motorcade that day. he sat in the lead vehicle with the secret service agent responsible for the motorcade also called the tsa agent. here's how sergeant robinson remembered the exchange. >> was there description of what of what was occurring in the car? >> no, only all the only description i received was that the president was upset. and was adamant about going to the capitol and there was a heated discussion about that. >> and when you say he did is that there were is that the word that was described by the joe? >> are described by the tsa. any of that. the president was upset and he was saying there was a heated discussion about going to the capitol aboup how many times would you say you've been part of that motorcade with the president? finally over 100 times? >> in in a 100 times, have you ever? witness to a another discussion of the argument are heated discussion

we shoulder shoulder must protect the country his father engels can see his son.f the hero awarded posthumously made this step so that not the first one entered. they could cause us big problems in order to inflict the grave of someone who fulfilled his military duty to the end. on february 24, 2022, the floor in which nurmagomed served was involved in then began a special military operation of the russian armed forces to protect the donetsk and lugansk people's republics. commander of the guard company senior lieutenant. nurmagomed gadzhimagomedov was in the colony of the tactical group, which advanced to occupy a bridgehead that would ensure the deployment of forces in the southern direction. he was among those who first entered the battle; his car was then hit by nurmagomed, left it and immediately opened fire on the attackers, which diverted their attention and made it possible for his fighters to disperse and take up all-round defense. during a fierce battle. he was in the most dangerous area, having been wounded, he continued to fire until the last bullet an

engel in the room when he was telling the story? >> he was. >> did he disagree with any part of the story? >> he did not correct or disagree with any part of his story. >> did they ever act on that and tell you that what he had just said was untrue? >> neither of them told me ever that it was untrue. >> and despite this altercation, this physical altercation during the ride back to the white house, president trump still demanded to go to the capitol. here is what kayleigh mcenany, the white house press secretary at the time, wrote in her personal notes and told the committee about prison trump's desire to go to the capital after returning to the white house. >> when you wanted to walk to the capitol, was that based solely on what this president said during his speech or what anybody else afterwards? >> to my recollection, i believe when we got back to the white house, he said he wanted specifically to walk with the marchers, according to my notes, he then said he would be fine with just riding with me. but to my recollection, he wan

we shoulder to shoulder should protect the country his father engels can see his son now only in thetar of the hero was awarded posthumously. take this step so that you are not the first to enter. they could create big problems for us. we are going to their family home. village to visit the grave of the one who fully fulfilled his military duty on february 24, 2022, the floor in which nurmagomed served was involved in the then-begun special military operation of the russian armed forces to protect the donetsk and luhansk people's republics. commander of the guard company senior lieutenant. nurmagomed gadzhigomedov was in the colony of the tactical group, which advanced to occupy a bridgehead that would ensure the deployment of forces in the southern direction. he was among those who were the first to fight his the car was then hit by nurmagomed, left it and immediately opened fire on the attackers, which diverted their attention and made it possible for his fighters to disperse and take up all-round defense. during a fierce battle. he was in the most dangerous area, having been wound

we both know tony ornado and jeff engel.ing politics into the secret service and trying to attack these guy's characters. this is a new low. >> it is. to think that any secret service agent would want to be tied to a failure where a president got hurt is insane. it's mission over politics every time, period. dan: you and i -- i worked with jeff for a long time, but one of the big dangers of dragging the secret service into this is if the secret service protectees, democrat or republican, assume this guy is a political player and not a security agent, then that protectee will want to create distance. they are going to feel like they are being spied on. >> proximity. protection requires proximity. we need to be close enough to someone to react quickly immediately if we see a threat. >> we have seen this -- this is not the first time this has happened where political actors have tried to drag secret service agents into a political fight. you and i both know these two agents ornado and bobby engel. they have a decorated history

engel grabbed his arm and said, circumstances you need to take your hand off the steering wheel.re going back to the west wing. >> there's also incident involving former vice president mike pence. shortly after he was escorted out of the capitol by secret service to a waiting armored limo and reportedly worried they wouldn't let him stay to do his job, first revealed in the book "i alone can fix it." pence was telling the agent if i get in that vehicle you guys are taking off. i'm not getting in the car. committee member jamie raskin called those remarks the most chilling six words that i've seen so far. now there's a third bomb steal could be relevant to thing one and thing two. nbc news has learned that the secret service erased text messages from january 6th and the day before. the messages were erased after the department of homeland inspector general requested communications related to the insurrection. their spokesman -- the secret service denied the insinuation that the texts were maliciously deleted adding, quote, the secret service has been fully cooperating with the ins

bobby engel said no to the president. that's what sparked all of this. in the moment to say we cannot take the sitting president of the united states to the capitol because there was a destabilized threat environment that is what sparked the president's anger. now what's in dispute right now isn't that the president was angry on that day, it's the level to which he acted. did he lunge for the wheel? >> allegedly assaulted. >> that will come out in sworn testimony. right now, that's what we're focused on. i just do not believe bobby engel would engage in any type of whisper campaign or witness tampering. >> all right. we're going to leave it there for now. jonathan wackrow and norm eisen, we'll talk about it again especially after we hear any potential testimony on that. thanks so much, gentlemen. >>> all right, the trial for former trump adviser steve bannon is set to begin this week in washington. bannon has been charged with contempt of congress for failing to cooperate with the january 6 committee. bannon's efforts to delay the trial were rejected las

trump then used his free hand to lunge toward bobby engel. quoted an exchange when some were chanting, "hang mike pence." >> they were literally calling for the vice president to be hung, and he responded something to the effect, he thinks they deserve it, he doesn't think they're doing anything wrong. >> we heard absolutely shocking details, all the behavior of the president of the united states on january 6th. >> listen, testimony is, first of all, stunning because we haven't heard this. >> i think that she comes across very credible. she has a good memory for all of these different conversations. >> as far as building the case about what the president knew and when he knew it and how illegal his acts were, boy, did she paint a damning picture. >> and as their surprise witness testimony blows up this many their faces, there's another problem for the democrats. it turns out that voters just don't care about this january 6th charade. >> i was really taken by, a young woman character to show america and the world the trout. >> today we heard m

trump then used his free hand to lunge towards bobby engel, and when mr.d recounted this story to me, he had motioned towards his clavicles. >> seth: my favorite part of this story is imagining what would have happened if trump had actually succeeded and gotten his hands on the wheel i mean, can you imagine him driving a car? i mean, we've seen him drive a golf cart, but could he handle a, you know, a steering wheel that doesn't come with a tiny pencil holder? i mean, remember the one time he sat in the driver's seat of a truck and handled the wheel like a fifth-grader in a bumper car [ laughter ] let's say he really did get his hands on the wheel and drove the car. what would that look like? "alright, hands at 10:00 and 2:00, adjust your mirrors. check your blind spots, turn signal on, and we crashed into a tree guys, you got to tell the cops a cat ran out and i swerved to save the cat i can't get another ticket or they're going to take my license away and mel already told me she won't drive me anywhere. you got to get my back, guys." we've said this a lo

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engel grabbed his arm. said "sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel." >> trump has dismissed hutchinson's testimony, but a washington, d.c. police officer who was in that motorcade corroborated details of the heated exchange to the committee. that's according to a source familiar. >> mr. trump then used his free hand to lunge toward bobby engel. and when mr. ornato had recounted this story to me, he had motioned toward his clavicles. >> reporter: the secret service has not given a public account of what happened. one official telling cnn that the agents dispute hutchinson's account. but hutchinson's lawyers say she stands by her testimony. >> if people want to come forward and have different recollections, we would encourage them to come forward and give testimony under oath. that's very different than puppeting putting out anonymous statements. >> the committee has just announced plans for an eighth and possibly final hearing. it will happen thursday at prime time, 8:00 p.m., and it will fo

trump then used his free hand to lunge toward bobby engel and when mr.ry to me he had motioned toward his clavicles. >> reporter: cnn learning that accounts of an angry trump demanding to go to the capitol over secret service objections and lunging forward in the suv started circulating among agents in the months after january 6th. cnn has learned that agent tony ornato, who was also trump's deputy chief of staff, has met with the committee on two previous occasions. some committee members say his version of events on that day were murky. >> mr. ornato did not have as clear of memories from this period of time as i would say miss hutchinson did. >> reporter: meanwhile, the work of the committee was front and center last night in wyoming. >> the only time that the j 6 situation ever comes up is when people talk about how unfair this entire committee is. >> reporter: vice chair liz cheney's opponent harriett hageman promoting conspiracy theories about the election results while cheney accused hageman of doing trump's bidding. >> she knows it wasn't stolen.

trurp then used his free hand to lunge towards bobby engel. when mr.rnato recounted this story to me, he motioned towards his clavicles. >> reporter: cnn learning that accounts of an angry trump demanding to go to the capitol over secret service objections and lunging forward in the suv started circulating among agents in the months after january 6th. cnn has learned that agent tony ornato who is trump's deputy chief of staff met with the committee on two previous occasions. his versions of events on that day were murky, some say. >> mr. ornato did not have as clear of memories from this period of time as i would say ms. hutchinson did. >> reporter: meanwhile, the work of the committee was front and center last night in wyoming. >> the only time that the j 6th situation ever comes up is when people talk about how unfair this entire committee is. >> reporter: vice chair liz cheney's opponent promoting conspiracy theories about the election results. while cheney accused hagueman of doing trump's bidding. >> she knows it wasn't stolen. i think she can't s

engel and others.with january 6th fast approaching. president trump brushed back early from mar-a-lago on december 21st and called an emergency meeting with the departments leadership. here's mr. donahue describing the last-minute meeting held at the white house on new years eve. >> the president was a little more agitated than he had been on the meeting, in the meeting on the 15th. he discussed a variety of election matters. he did say, this sounds like the kind of thing that would warrant appointment of the special counsel. it was a point at which the president said, something about, why don't you guys sees machines? >> mr. rosen, the president asked you to seize voting machines from state governments. what was your response to that request? >> that we had seen nothing improper with regard to the voting machines, and i told him that the real experts there had been a dhs and that they had briefed us. they had looked at it. there was nothing wrong with the voting machines. so, that was not something th

steven engel, former assistant attorney general for the office of legal counsel. he was nominated by the former president and confirmed by the senate during the trump administration. he served from november 2017 until january 2021. he has now returned private practice. i will now swear in our kisses. witnesses please stand and raise your right hands. do you swear under penalty of perjury the testimony you're about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. so help you god. >> thank you, you may be seated. let the record reflect the witnesses all answered in the affirmative. i now recognize myself for questions. first of all gentlemen, thank you for being here today. all of you served at former president trump's pleasure at the department of justice. and trump leadership positions with tremendous responsibility. former attorney general, bill barr, told us like committee that before he left the department in december of 2020, he told president trump, on at least three occasions, there was no evidence of widespread election fraud that would've

trump then used his freehand to lunge towards bobby engel. when mr. renando recounted the story to me he pointed towards his clavicals. >> secret service pushing back saying the agents involved would testify and deny it. but they haven't. so, how does all of this look now to you? >> well, it looked at -- cassidy hutchinson's testimony stands as of now unrebutted. circulating widely in the metropolitan police department and the secret service and in the reporting today it is great reporting that shows, you know, it is consistent with what cassidy hutchinson said. it is more important to take a step back and to remember that whether or not trump actually lunged at a secret service agent and if he tried to grab at the steering wheel is not the point. the point is he wanted to go. he was insist ant ongoing up to capitol hill and no one, not even the behind-the-scenes whisperers at the secret service who do not seem to be ready to offer up a sworn testimony not even they can attest that. that is the fact, that is the fact that matters and that is what all

engel grabbed his arm. your hand off the wheel. >> reporter: a washington d.c. police officer who was in that motor kaed corroborated details of the heated ek change to the committee. >> mr. trump used the free hand to lunge and recounting the story he motioned toward his clavicles. >> reporter: the secret service did not give a public account of what happened. one said that they dispute the hutchinson account. >> if people want to come forward and have a different recollection we encourage them to give testimony under oath. that is different than putting out anonymous statements. >> reporter: there's a ailt and possibly final hearing. it will focus on what was happening in the 187 minutes when trump was out of public view and not stepping in as rioters attacked the capitol. wolf? >> we'll be watching. thank you. >>> let's get more on this right now. joining us cnn law enforcement andist and former secret service agent and chief legal analyst jef jeffrey toobin. is there a reason to erase the information? >

engel grabbed his arm. said sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel. >> reporter: trump had dismissed hutchinson's testimony, but someone in the motorcade corroborated. >> mr. trump then used his free hand to lunge toward bobby engel. he motioned toward his clavicles. >> reporter: one official telling cnn that the agents dispute hutchinson's account, but huctchinson's lawyers say se stands by her testimony. >> if people have a different recollection we encourage them to come out and testify under oath. that's very different than putting out anonymous statements. >> reporter: the committee has announced plans for an eighth and final hearing on thursday at 8:00 p.m. and will focus on what happened in the 187 minutes when trump was out of public view and not stepping in as rioters attacked the capitol. jessica schneider, cnn. >>> georgia's republican party chairman david shavfer has received a letter warning him that he may be indicted. he helped organize a slate of fake electors in the state an

engel grabbed his arm and said, sir, you need to take your arm off the steering wheel. back to the west wing. mr. trump then used his free hand to lunge toward bobby engel. >> does this sound like the donald trump you've covered for all these years, or does this seem more extreme? >> well, it sounds like the person that he imagined himself to be. so this is a fellow who told me he's the hero in his own comic book, that he loves to fight all kinds of fights, even physical fights. the record doesn't show he's really done that. i think it's unlikely that he would somehow make his way across the beast and grab the steering wheel, but i think it's the kind of story people would tell about him. the part that is credible to me is the idea he insisted on going to the capitol himself. now we can only tremble at the thought of what would have happened if he had done that. i think the outcome would have been very different. the idea that he imagined being the president that would take over the car, force it to go up to the capitol, is how he would have thought about himself. but i

engel, grabbed his arm, and said sir, take your hand off the steering wheel, we're going back to theol. mr. trump then used his free hand to lung towards bobby engel and recounted the story to me, motioned toward his clavicles. >> now, just as troubling as is his own violent behavior was the president's apparent knowledge of his supporters violent intent that day and he knew they were armed. the president was told many in the crowd, he had assembled, were armed. and yet, according to the testimony, he demanded the removal of the screening devices that would have detected those weapons. what should the consequences be for this type of behavior from the commander in chief of the united states? >> i think if you accept cassidy hutchinson's testimony and granted it has to be tested against other people's memories of those days, it means the department of justice needs to investigation whether or not the former president, while he was sitting in the office, knew that there was an attempt to use violence to prevent the certification of an election, and said i am going to help advance that

engel grabbed his arm, said, sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel.re going back to the west wing. mr. trump then used his free hand to lunge towards bobby engel. >> so, this is the part that governor noem was referring to and some secret service sources are disputing the account. others say, though, it tracks with what they heard. the question is, trump allies are trying to use this to discredit all of her testimony. why did the committee put this out there, ask her about this, that she heard secondhand without first obtaining corroborating evidence? >> well, i'm not going to say what we do or don't have in terms of corroboration, but let me say this, what she said is this is what she heard. at no point did she say she was in the beast with the president and saw this happen. now, you guys have done a good job of reporting secret service sources saying, they heard the same story. what you're seeing now, and this is typical for trump world, that nobody has argued, nobody has argued that the president didn't want to go to the capitol. nobody has argued

trump then used his free hand to lunge toward bobby engel, and when mr.unted the story to me, he had motioned toward his clavicles. >> stephen: he went for the throat! when you get into the secret service, you know you have to take one for the president, but you never expect to take one from the president. ( laughter ) "thank you for your service! let's keep this part secret!" the limo wasn't the only place the president got violent. hutchinson talked about the day bill barr went on the record saying there wasn't any fraud in the election. >> i noticed that the door was propped open, and the valet was inside the dining room, changing the tablecloth off of the dining room table. he motioned for me to come in, and then pointed towards the front of the room near the fireplace mantel and the tv, where i first noticed there was ketchup dripping down the wall, and there's a shattered porcelain plate on the floor. the valet had articulated that the president was extremely angry at the attorney general's a.p. interview, and had thrown his lunch against the wall.

engel grabbed his arm and said, sir, you need to take your hand off the steering well and mr. trump used his free hand to lunch toward bobby engel. >> a secret service official would only speak on backgrounds of the agents involved in this would deny it but today abc police officer says, it did happen. >> and members of the january 6th panel are working on the next steps in their investigation does it include calling former president trump and vice president pence to testify? they are mulling it. we are staying on top of all of that. let's get to jessica snyder now. let's talk about these texts. tell us what happened? >> a lot of lingering questions here. we just learned the inspector general, first brought to light the text messages from the secret service were erased. he just briefed all nine members of the committee. he was caught on capitol hill by our team there. this is all in the midst of what has become a back and forth between the inspector general and the secret service, so here's how it's been playing out. the ig send this to lawmakers two days ago and in it, he sai

engel grabbed his arm and said, sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel. we're going back to the west wing. we're not going to the capital. mr. trump then used his free hand to lunge towards bobby engle, and that's when mr. renato had recounted the story to me, he motioned towards his clavicle's. >> and was mr. engle in the room as mr. renato told you the story? >> he was. >> did mr. engle correct or disagree with any part of the story for mr. renato? >> mr. engle did not. correct or disagree with any part of the story. >> did mr. engle or mr. renato ever tell you that when mr. varnadoe had said was untrue? >> neither mr. ronaldo nor mr. engle told me ever that it was untrue. >> but now that officer with the tea metropolitan police department who is right there in the motorcade, a firsthand witness, is corroborating details of what kathy hutchinson told the committee. and we have new reporting tonight, which we are going to bring in just a moment, on the question or loss or erased secret service text messages from january 5th and january 6th. i want to get

engel grabbed his arm, said, sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel. we're going back to the west wing. we're not going to the capitol. mr. trump then used his free hand to lunge towards bob by engel and when he recounted this story to me he had motioned towards his clavicles. >> let's start with the new reporting. cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles has it. what are you learning? >> yeah, that's right, victor. this comes from two different sources within the secret service who spoke to our noah gray who said that this story of the former president being irate and demanding to be taken to the capitol on the day of january 6th was something that was spread around the secret service in the weeks, months and days after what happened on january 6th. some recounting this story as early as february and the two different sources have stories that are very similar to the one that cassidy hutchinson testified to in the hearing on tuesday saying that the president was mad and that he lunged toward the steering wheel in an effort to try and get the detail

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trump then used his free hand to lunge toward bobby engel and when mr. donato had recounted the story, he motioned to his clavicles. >> a glimpse there at the rage of donald trump then president of the united states when he couldn't go to the capitol but is that the important point or is it now, cnn reports that adc police officer assigned to the motorcade sought a heated exchange. is that important or is the fact that matters or is the fact that he simply wanted to join the protesters at the capitol. >> i think that's the big point here, obviously the details matter and i think it's important that that part of her testimony was cooperated. that was the one part where cassidy hutchinson acknowledged, this was not something she had witnessed firsthand and aborted because that was the one part of her testimony that trump world seized on to try to dispute her credibility and to my understanding, the people who said they be willing to talk to the committee have so far not spoken to the committee. we can't answer these questions or that there is a dispute abo

. >> when you say the officers have retained counsel, is that referring to ornato and engel? >> and the driver. >> and the driver? >> yeah. >> the congresswoman is referring to former white house chief of staff, tony ornato, who had served as a secret service agent to robert engel, the former head of trump's security detail. during last night's hearing we saw and heard evidence of what the agents assigned to protect mike pence were facing as rioters stormed the capitol. >> [noise] -- >> oh, they've entered the building. >> hold. >> we need to move now. >> if we are moving, we need to move now. >> copy. >> if we lose any more time we may lose the ability to leave. so, if we are going to leave, we need to do it now. >> they've gained access to the second floor and i've got public about five feet for me down here below. >> okay, copy. >> they're on the second floor. moving in now. we may want to consider getting out and leaving now, copy? >> that day was start of the public political rift between former president trump and mike pence. tonight, they are both in arizona, campaigni

trump then used his free hand to lunge towards bobby engel, and when mr. renato had recounted the story to me, he had motioned towards his clavicles. >> cnn learning that accounts of an angry trump demanding to go to the capitol over secret service objections and lunging forward in the suv started circulating among agents in the months after january 6th. cnn has learned that agent tony orr ornato has met with the committee on two occasions. some say his versions of events on that day were murky. >> mr. ornato did not have as clear of memories from this period of time as i would say ms. hutchinson did. >> reporter: meanwhile, the work of the committee was front and center in wyoming. >> the only time that the j6 situation ever comes up is when people talk about how unfair this entire committee is. >> reporter: vice chair liz cheney's opponent promoting conspiracy theories about the election results, while cheney accused hagaman of doing trump's bidding. >> she knows it wasn't stolen. i think she can't say that it wasn't stolen because she's completely behol

engel grabbed his arm and said sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel, we're going back to the west wing, we're not going to the capitol. mr. trump then used his free hand to lunge towards bobby engel and when mtold me, he pointed toward his clavicles. >> what is the committee hearing from this officer because that was the big question afterward when the secret service refuted it. remember the that's right. w . >> reporter: that's right. what the committee heard is now being verified by this officer. my colleagues confirmed that d.c. police officer who was in the motorcade talked to the house committee about this incident and he or she is intentionally corroborating some of the details from hutchinson's testimony and that is according to a source familiar with it. so we don't have more yet on exactly what this witness told the committee, but one thing that has played out since hutchinson's testimony is this debate over the accuracy of the story that she heard. the house is still trying to work to nail that down, what actually happened there. but the takeaway here today i

recollection of what occurred at that time, and that they're ready to allow tony ornato and bobby engelbefore the committee and testify under oath about their experience. the new reporting we're getting, and this comes from noah gray, who has spoken to two different sources who are longtime employees of secret service, who said that a version of this story has been passed around through the secret service for some time after the incident took place, in the days after what happened on january 6th, as early as february and then many months after. and these two different sources, both heard versions of the story. their versions of the stories do slightly differ. the first source telling us that there were many people talking about the former president being very angry, lashing out at the individuals in the car and demanding to go to the capitol on that day, and that even that he lunged in the direction of the front seat. now, they do not confirm what cassidy hutchinson said about the steering wheel or any type of physical altercation that took place on that day. hutchinson never accused th

trump then used his free hand to lunge towards bobby engel, when mr.is story he mentioned towards his clavicles. >> reporter: by 2:00 the capitol goes into lockdown, the senate abruptly adjourns soon after. back at the white house white house counsel pat cipollone tells meadows trump should intervene or people will die. >> mark had responded something to the effect of you heard it, pat, he thinks mike deserves it, he doesn't think they're doing something wrong. mark, something needs to be done or people are going to die and the blood will be on your effing hands. >> reporter: minutes later trump tweets, slamming pence for not overturning the election. >> the situation is already bad, so it felt like he was pouring gasoline on the fire by tweeting that. >> we need an area for the house members. they are all walking over now through the tunnels. >> reporter: at 2:30 u.s. capitol police start evacuating lawmakers and the secret service removes pence from the senate floor. and shortly after trump sends another tweet for everyone to remain peaceful, but doe

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