i, robert o'brien was traveling on the 6th. i reached him at about 430 p. m and told him of that i was submitting my resignation. he accepted the resignation, but he also asked whether i could stay in till he could get back to the white house . and i agreed to that we, we both of wanted to make sure that i was leaving in a responsible way. we still have foreign adversaries to worry about, you know, hackers, terrorists, nation states. and i did not want to leave my chair empty given that i was the top national security staffer in the white house. ah. so i ended up staying at my desk through the night when robert o'brien arrived back at the white house the next morning, the morning of the 7th. i debriefed with him and left for the last time. so, you know, i both share a passion for national security of our country. can you share with me what's your view on how january 6 impacted our national security? well, when you have a presidential transition, even under the best circumstances, it is a, it's a time of vulnerability. it's a ti

robert o'brien was traveling on the sixth. i reached him at about 4:30 p.m. and told him that i was submitting my resignation. he accepted the resignation but he also asked whether i could stay until he could get back to the white house. i agreed to that. we both wanted to make sure i was living in a responsible way. we still have foreign adversaries to think about, hackers, terrorist, nation states. i didn't want to leave my chair empty being i was the top security staffer in the white house. i ended up staying at my desk through the night. when robert o'brien arrived back the morning of the seventh i debriefed with him and left for the last time. >> so you and i both share a passion for national security of our country. can you share with me what is your view on how january 6th impacted our national security? >> will when you have a presidential transition even under the bit of circumstances it is a time of vulnerability. it's a time of vulnerability. for a contested election i was certainly concerned that some of our adversaries would be tempted to probe o

that was the national security advisor, robert o'brien. robert o'brien was traveling on the 6th. i reached him at about 4:30 p.m. and told him that i was submitting my resignation. he accepted the resignation, but he also asked whether i could stay until he could get back to the white house. and i agreed to that. we both wanted to make sure i was leaving in a responsible way. we still have foreign adversaries to worry about, hackers, terrorists, nation states. and i did not want to leave my chair empty given that i was the top national security staffer in the white house. so i ended up staying at my desk through the night. when robert o'brien arrived back at the white house the next morning, the morning of the 7th, i debriefed with him and left for the last time. >> so you and i both share a passion for national security of our country. can you share with me, what's your view on how january 6th impacted our national security? >> well, when you have a presidential transition, even under the best circumstances, it's a time of vulnerability. it's a time of vulnerability. when you ha

then robert o'brien former national security advisor to presidentt trump said america needs this legislation without delay. i want to also say a note of thanks to my own staff, my personal and my committee staff for their tireless efforts over the last year and a half on this issue. this is the culmination of a great deal of work by some very, very talented personnel, countless meetings, and mark up in may, a final vote by the senate in june after debate on the floor. all the staff members work nightsff and weekends. all of them contributed in many ways. iut will single out for recognition my policy director james meisel who was absolutely vital to d us and putting it all together and his entire team so thank you very much mr. president. i urge a yes vote and think the strong 64 vote we had on the cloture was indicative of the support and i anticipate its passage and look forward to the successful passage in the house of representatives. i yieldes the floor. >> i ask unanimous consent that i ben. allowed to finish my remarksns prior to the scheduled vote. thank you mr. president. i come to t

>> no, i wanted to first to talk to my immediate boss, that wasn't national security adviser, robert o'brien. robert or bryant was traveling on the sixth. i reached him at about 4:30 pm and told him that i was submitting my resignation. he accepted the resignation but he also asked whether i could stay until he could get back to the white house. and i agreed to that. we both wanted to make sure that i was leaving in a responsible way. we still have foreign adversaries to worry about. hackers, terrorists, nation states. and i did not want to leave the chair empty while i was the top national security staffer in the white house. so i ended up staying at my desk, when robert o'brien arrived at the white house the next morning, the morning of the seventh. i debriefed with him and left for the last time. >> you bopha and i both share a passion for the national security of our country. can you share with -- me what's your view on how january 6th impacted our national security? >> when you have a presidential transition, even though the circumstances, it is a time of vulnerability. it's a time of v

robert o'brien was traveling on the sixth. i reached him at 4:30 p.m. and told him i was submitting my resignation. he accepted the resignation. but he also asked whether i could stay until he could get back to the white house. and i agreed to that. we both wanted to make sure i was leaving in a responsible way. we still have foreign adversaries to worry about -- hackers, terrorists, nationstates, and i did not want to leave my chair empty given that i was the top national security staff in the white house. so, i ended up staying at my desk through the night. when robert o'brien arrived at the white house the next morning, the morning of the seventh, i with him and left for the last time. rep. kinzinger: you and i share a passion for the national security of our country. can you share with me, what is your view of how january 6 impacted our national security? mr. pottinger: when you have a presidential transition, under the best circumstances, it is a time of vulnerability. it is a time of vulnerability. when you have a contested election, i was certain

and by robert o'brien former national security advisor to president trump. so three distinguished and knowledgeable national defense officials and foreign policy officials are saying this about the bill we will soon vote on, ambassador lighthizer of the trump administration said on "kudlow" two days ago, we are in this existential competition with china. the battleground of that competition is technology and chips. that is where we are going to win it or lose it. and he goes on to point out the bill, while not perfect, is exactly the bill we can get done right now. and i don't know of any billets ever perfect. mike pompeo, secretary of states and that national point is this. congress must pass the chips act. for both our national and economic security. we have to become less dependent on china for critical technologies and this is how we do it. a bipartisan bill supporting rmd for semiconductor chip manufacturing is essential to securing vital technologies for our economy. banned our military. that is mike pompeo, president trump secretary of state. and then

>> no, i wanted to first to talk to my immediate boss, that wasn't national security adviser, robert o'brienor bryant was traveling on the sixth. i reached him at about 4:30 pm and told him that i was submitting my resignation. he accepted the resignation but he also asked whether i could stay until he could get back to the white house. and i agreed to that. we both wanted to make sure that i was leaving in a responsible way. we still have foreign adversaries to worry about. hackers, terrorists, nation states. and i did not want to leave the chair empty while i was the top national security staffer in the white house. so i ended up staying at my desk, when robert o'brien arrived at the white house the next morning, the morning of the seventh. i.d. briefed with him and left for the last time. >> you bopha and i both share a passion for the national security of our country. can you share with -- me what's your view on how january 6th impacted our national security? >> when you have a presidential transition, even though the circumstances, it is a time of vulnerability. it's a time of vulnerabi

, on the same topic, potential violence on january 6. >> i received a call from robert o'brien, that national security advisor. he had asked if he could speak with mr. meadows about potential violence that he was hearing about potentially happening on the hill on january 6. i asked if he had connected with tony, because he had a conversation with him, mark, about that topic. robert said, i will talk to tony. then i don't know if robert ever connected with mark about the issue. >> ms. hutchinson, can you describe to us tony's responsibilities as deputy chief of staff? >> the deputy chief of staff at the white house is arguably one of the most important positions somebody can hold. they are in charge of all security protocol for the campus and all presidential protect ees. anything that requires security for any individual that has presidential protection, for the chief of staff, or the national security advisor, as well as the vice president's team, too, tony would oversee all of that he was a conduit between white house staff and the secret service. >> thank you. he also describes a

russian president touching down in tehran a few hours ago, robert o'brien joins us. nks for spending time today. he is meeting with the turkish president erdogan, syria a big topic of discussion. one of the things out there, the current national security advisor, jake sullivan said iran might be inclined to sell hundreds of armed drones to washington to use in the war against ukraine. others have raised some skepticism about that. what do you hear? >> payback, the russians gave the s-300 anti-aircraft missile system to the iranians, and so this might be a way for the iranians to pay back the russians to some extent for the russians having supplied the anti-aircraft missiles. so, no surprise here. i mean, these evil regimes, russia, china, iran, closing ranks during this time, it shouldn't be surprising to see them together. >> john: interesting to see putin has some friends in certain places. >> well, look, beijing, tehran and moscow and a few other places like havana and caracas, total dominion over their own people and engage in terrible human rights abuses. engage

robert o'brien was traveling on the sixth. i reached him at 4:30 p.m. and told him i was submitting my resignation. he accepted the resignation. but he also asked whether i could stay until he could get back to the white house. and i agreed to that. we both wanted to make sure i was leaving in a responsible way. we still have foreign adversaries to worry about -- hackers, terrorists, nationstates, and i did not want to leave my chair empty given that i was the top national security staff in the white house. so, i ended up staying at my desk through the night. when robert o'brien arrived at the white house the next morning, the morning of the seventh, i with him and left for the last time. rep. kinzinger: you and i share a passion for the national security of our country. can you share with me, what is your view of how january 6 impacted our national security? mr. pottinger: when you have a presidential transition, under the best circumstances, it is a time of vulnerability. it is a time of vulnerability. when you have a contested election, i was certain

>> now, i wanted to first talk to my immediate boss, that was national security adviser robert o'brienmy desk through the night. when robert o'brien arrived back at the white house the next morning, the morning of the seventh, i debriefed with him and left for the last time. >> throughout the hearing, the committee has shown trumps negative impact on his most loyal followers. how they believed in him, believed they were doing something good for the country by working for him. and then, well, they were disappointed. it was something that vice chair liz cheney was explicit about last night. by our count, at least 15 of the 20 in-person witnesses of the hearing this summer have been republicans, conservatives. whether republican officials or former republican judges, legendary conservative judges like michael luttig. this is all intentional. because amongst other things, these hearings are a genuine attempt of persuasion. at reaching conservatives and republicans, and anyone who needs convincing that donald trump is a threat, a menace, an existential danger to american democracy. that cou

, on the same topic, potential violence on january six. >> i received a call from robert o'brien, the national security adviser. he asked if he could speak with mr. meadows about potential violence that he was hearing that was potentially going to happen on the hill in january six. i had asked if he connected it with tony ornato because tony had a conversation with him, with mark about that topic. robert had set, i will talk to toni, i don't know if robert ever connected with mark about the issue. >> miss hutchinson, can you describe for us mr. ornado's responsibilities as deputy chief of staff? >> the deputy chief of staff position for the white house operations is arguably one of the most important positions that someone can hold. they are in charge of all security protocol for the campus and all presidential protectees, primarily the president and first family but anything that requires security for any individual that has presidential protections, so the chief of staff or national security adviser, as well as the vice president team to. tony would oversee all of that. he was the c

he served under robert o'brien.here was a time, there was a moment when multiple senior officials nearly all quit together. matthew pottinger resigned after what he saw what trump posted about mike pence. one thing we'll see interesting what we'll likely hear him talk about on thursday there was a moment on january 6th, in this 187 minutes that the committee is going to be exploring. where matthew pottinger got a call from a friend about the national guard not showing up. he actually went to the oval office. trump was not had his office. matthew pottinger did run into mark meadows, the chief of staff, of course, and he talked to him about it. that is going to be an interaction that you'll see talking about. sarah matthews was a top aide to kayleigh mcenany also involved. >> and people have a story to tell. >> as well as cassidy hutchinson, of course, she was not a household name, known in the white house, look what she did. >> she's a household name now. >>> last night in uvalde, texas for about three hours, angry p

ambassador robert o'brien on putin's trip to iran, and why isn't there more business experience amonghe economic ship. i'm john roberts. sandra is out today. gillian turner and i will see you in the next hour for america reports. >> harris: breaking news now, a delaware court has just decided to fast-track a trial between twitter and tesla ceo elon musk. despite elon musk's efforts to delay that trial until next year. it's not set for october. twitter has accused must give using delay tactics to hurt the company and the court of public opinion. musk's team claims they need more time to dig into the real number of fake accounts on the platform. it's those bought accounts that prompted elon musk to pull out of the deal to buy the social media site. twitter filed a lawsuit to hold them to that deal. so, brian, part of the reason i'm sure he also pulled out is because it gives you an opportunity to get a better deal. >> brian: he doesn't want to pay that much for this thing. >> harris: i thought it was 44 -- sorry, talk to me like i'm six. >> brian: he doesn't want to pay that. this isn't

will be able to say what donald trump received in briefings from the national security adviser robert o'brienhat pottinger probably was in the room for. and he will be able to say what communications occurred within the executive branch which would include the department of defense or the department of justice. or any ever the intelligence community, the 17 agencies, that include the intelligence community. so, he will have a lot of information that day. and when you pair it with sarah matthews who was probably present with donald trump for much of the day, we're likely to get a much clearer picture of what donald trump was doing that day. i would add, that there is a witness that donald trump called -- we don't know the identity of that witness, but it is someone that liz cheney said has not yet appeared. and it is someone we understand who worked in the white house who donald trump did not have significant relationship with. i will be very interested to hear whether one of these witnesses received that call. i would suspect that is the case. >> cnn has been told by reporting that the staff

robert o'brien was out of town. matt pottinger has extraordinary credibility on a bipartisan basis across the board. former "wall street journal" beijing bureau chief but marine corps veteran, a credible person who, by the way, was close with vice president mike pence. i traveled to southeast asia on two occasions and matt pottinger advised him. sarah matthews, who is a personal friend of mine, worked just steps from the oval office in upper press in the white house and she's a tried and true republican. they're not going to be able to attack her by saying she's a rino, a never trumper. she came from the trump campaign. she was hand-picked to be the deputy press secretary. she's worked for republican lawmakers. so they lend an incredible amount of credibility of people who are public servants and wanted to be there but were so horrified by the actions that day. and they will be able to fill in the tiktoks. sarah will know quite a bit about trying to get the president to denounce the actions, what he was willing and

it may be that he was filling in for robert o'brien on a particular day as the chief deputy. he it would be curious to see what he saw at his vantage point was. because his office isn't anywhere near the oval office. it is curious to see what both these folks have to say. there they are interesting witnesses, in my mind, for the last airing on the primetime hearing. because of the distance from the president. >> obviously, this is a committee that has two fairly prominent republicans. i know they are named as republicans in name only, congressman liz cheney and congressman adam kissinger. you see this committee as a democratic committee and partisan one, or more of a bipartisan effort to uncover the truth? >> i don't describe it as bipartisan or partisan. it is anti trump, it just is, regardless of whether or not the people there are democrats or republicans. there is nobody defending the president from the podium. there is nobody defending the president in the interview room. there is nobody defending the president when they give testimony. that is when i say -- i very much

robert o'brien was not in the white house. this is a person with an incredible career, credibility across the aisle. he served as wall street wall street bureau chief. he went on to be one of the most renowned on a bipartisan basis. oon the other side, you have my friend, sarah matthews, who is a tried and true republican. she was hand picked by the trump campaign to come to the west wing. she worked with republican leaders on capitol hill. you can't claim it's a never-trumper or a r.h.i.n.o. so, they bring in credibility from two different arenas. and both are there and are going to be able to tell you what happened in those critical minutes, what the former president was able to do to call off the mob, and shed some light on what the senior advisers around him were willing to say, how far they were able to push him. >> so far we only have through mark meadows. that's as far as we get with cassidy hutchinson's testimony. we will get from people the whys, the idea of the national guard, potentially, why it wasn't deployed soon

he may have been filling to in for robert o'brien that day. curious to to see what he saw and what his vantage point was because his office isn't fear the off office. curious to see what they have to say. very interesting witnesses for the last hearing and primetime hearing because of their distance from the president. >> this is a committee that has two prominent republicans. they are named at rhino, liz cheney and adam kinzinger. do you perceive this as a democratic committee and partisan one or a bipartisan effort to uncover the truth? >> i don't video describe it as partisan or bipartisan. it's anti-trump regardless whether the people are democrats, republicans. there is nobody defending the president from the podium. there is nobody defending the president in the interview, when the folks give testimony. so that's what i say when i say it's the democrats. i wish very much that nancy pelosi had seated the republicans that kevin mccarthy asked for. i think in a roundabout sort of way it would have accomplished more of that pelosi wanted to

robert o'brien was not there. this is a person with an incredible career and ability across the aisle. he served as the wall street journal bureau and beijing. he was a marine corps officer. he was one of the most renounced -- on the other side, you have my friend sarah matthews, who is a tried and true republican. she was handpicked by caitlyn mcenany from the trump campaign to come to the west wing. she worked with repopulate is on capitol hill exactly, you can't claim it's never a trump or right now. they confronted different arenas, and both over there and can tell you exactly what happened in those critical moments, with the former president was or was not willing to say to call off the mob and also shed light on what the senior advisers around him were willing to say, how far they were willing to push him >> so far, we only had the idea of mark meadows, that's as far as it seems to get with cassidy hutchinson's testimony. mark meadows did not want to talk to him. he did not want to do anything. he kept sayin

ambassador robert o'brien, a secretary of state, mike pompeo involved in those. and trump brought home fifty five detainees around the world. >> he he knew how to get it>> done. we just haveve to add foreign policy and clout on the foreign stage to the areas of just utter failure of the bush administration. everyone should under remember joe biden was brought on to the obama presidential ticketf to be the foreign policy guy.ht and if y you remember the eight years i know you do, jason .ratr the obama administration, it was a foreign policy disaster. everything everywhere pretty much got worse. so there's nothing that's surprising about joe bidenin being incapable ofg negotiating a deal to get not just this american, but i want every american home from russiat ge wt brittney griner home, i want the other americans, including paul wailin home from russia. but the body administration doesn't have what it takes to negotiate. this deal obviously doesn't have the kind of persona gravitas, i think, with vladimir putin that would help move the needle and the russians kno

wow, look at donald trump did for a rocky he sent robert o'brien over there one of the best negotiators in the world. days later, a rocket withoutn asap. rocky didn't even like president trump. but you know what? de atwas for donald trump? america first get americans outd ,get american tom in his g administration. he got over fifty americans out of twenty two countries, john . twenty two countries, yemen, iran, so many countries in thisu world that he helped saveiv american lives. that's what lebron james should be saying. >> you know, they have to look at the connection with huntery biden and these countries, russia and china, because we have soft on russia policies. the approval of the nord stream two pipeline leo. oh, ukraine can have fighter jets in their battle againstei russia's invasion, whichin i thought was a little insane. fighting to win a war on china. we're now sending strategic petroleum reserves to china and we don't have enough oil in this country. it seems to me that all of this the soft on russia china policy has got to be rooted some way on the fact that the biden fam

and then robert o'brien, former national security advisor to president trump, said america needs this legislation without delay. so i want to -- i want to also say a note of thanks to my own staff, my personal staff and my committee staff, for her tireless efforts -- for their tireless efforts over the last year and a half on this issue. this is the culmination of a great deal of work by some very, very talented personnel. countless meet, a legislative hearing in april, a markup in may, a final vote by the senate in june after days and days on the floor. all of these staff members work days and nights and weekends, helping to manage almost 1,000 amendments through the committee on the floor and all of them contributed in many ways. i will single out for recognition my policy director, james mazel, who was absolutely vital to us in putting it all together, and his entire team. so thank you very much, mr. president. i urge a yes vote. i think the strong 64 votes we had yesterday on cloture was indicative of the support, and i anticipate its passage and look forward to its successful pas

robert o'brien was traveling on the sixth. i reached him in about 4:30 pm, and told him that i was submitting my resignation. he accepted my resignation, but he also asked whether i could stay until he could get back to the white house, and i agreed to that. we both wanted to make sure that i was leaving in a responsible way. with still had foreign adversary story about, you know, hackers, terrorists, nation states. and i did not want to leave my chair empty, given that i was at the top national security staffer in the white house. so, i ended up staying at my desk through the night, when robert o'brien arrived back at the white house the next morning, the morning of the seventh, i debriefed with him and left for the last time. >> so you and i both share a passion for the national security of our country. can you share with me, what is your view on how january 6th impacted our national security? >> well, when you have a presidential transition, even under the best circumstances, it's a time of vulnerability. it's a time of vul

, robert o'brien was travelling on the sixth. on the 20th, but our national security was harmed in a different way by january six was harmed in a different way byjanuary six and was harmed in a different way by january six and that is that it, ithink it by january six and that is that it, i think it emboldened our enemies by helping give them ammunition to feed a narrative that our system of government doesn't work, that the united states is in decline, china, the putin regime in russia, tehran, they are fond of putting those kinds of narratives and by the way, they are wrong. we have been hearing for the entirety of us history, from kings and experts that the united states is in decline and those kings and experts have been proven wrong every single time, but nonetheless, january six helped feed a perception that i think emboldens our adverse areas. the other part i think is simply our allies. i heard from a lot of friends in europe, asia, allies, close friends and supporters of the united states that they were concerned about t

that was the national security adviser, robert o'brien. robert o'brien was traveling on the 6th.d told him that i was submitting my resignation. he accepted the resignation, but he also asked whether i could stay until he could get back to the white house. and i agreed to that. we both wanted to make sure that i was leaving in a responsible way. we still have foreign adversaries to worry about, you know, hackers, terrorists, nation states, and i did not want to leave my chair empty given that i was the top national security staffer in the white house. so i ended up staying at my desk through the night. when robert o'brien arrived back at the white house the next morning, the morning of the 7th, i debriefed with him and left for the last time. >> so you and i both share a passion for national security of our country. can you share with me, what's your view on how january 6th impacted our national security? >> well, when you have a presidential transition, even under the best circumstances, it is -- it's a time of vulnerability. it's a time of vulnerability. you know, when you have

pottinger lasted four years and rose up to this position as deputy national security adviser under robert o'brien was one of the voices, for what it's worth, one of the few people sounding the alarm early on in the covid pandemic that this was something to be taken seriously. he had seen sars firsthand while he was out there. now, what happened on january 6th with matt pottinger? we know some of what he'll say. we've heard some of it already. he did not see trump that day, but he did see -- he was around the outer oval. he did see mark meadows. he tried to get mark meadows' attention, like a lot of aides were that day. one of matt's predecessors in that role, deputy nsa role, had gotten ahold of him and said the mayor of washington, muriel bowser was trying to get ahold of the white house, trying to get their attention to send national guard reinforcements. we know bowser called kellyanne conway several times. i think at least part of what we'll hear from pottinger on thursday will be this chaotic scene and trying to understand why the white house wasn't responding more quickly to what was happen

robert o'brien and jared kushner and others? in mike pompeo?nd europe, do not be over reliable on russia's energy because that will come back and bite you. that is exactly what's happened up your there are videos you can see of him basically imploring the germans, for example. you are becoming a hostage with putin. they totally ignored him and carried on with this insane policy of becoming massive reliable on russian energy. and got them right where they want him. so you are saying all over the place right now with what is going on sri lanka. a political economic disaster because the government decided to declare war on farmers. in the netherlands. again, the farmers there who are genuinely and rightly concerned about their livelihood and going out of business because again, pro-green policies being aggressively wasted upon them. in the current economic clinic of the world with the situation in ukraine with incredible strain on energy and food, it is absolutely ridiculous. you can see where this is now beginning to unfold around the world. so l

these are real republicans, charlie dent, jim greenwood, former says it hout speaker denny o'brien, senator robertchultz newman. tell us how you got all of the endorsements and how you got them today. >> you know, i've been talking to democrats, republicans and independents all across pennsylvania, and i think it's important to note that these prominent officials represent all corners of our commonwealth. it includes the first woman supreme court justice. it includes as you said people who are long-time servants of the republican party and also includes the head of the county commissioners from one of the most conservative counties in pennsylvania who currently serves and they've all come together largely for different reasons. number one, they fear that the dangerous extremism of my opponent, and number two, they know i'm a guy with a long track record of bringing people together to actually get things done, which is what people want now more than ever. they want folks to get things done, make their lives a little bit better and they trust i'll be able to do that. look, my opponent has said his n