An Explosive Jan. 6 Hearing

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🗓️ 29 June 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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On Jan. 6, 2021, when supporters of Donald Trump stormed the Capitol, Cassidy Hutchinson was at work in the White House alongside her boss, Mark Meadows, then the chief of staff. Her stunning testimony has provided a fly-on-the-wall account of what Mr. Trump knew about the events that day. Guest: Luke Broadwater, a congressional reporter for The New York Times.

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0:00.0	From New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is the Daily.
0:07.0	Today, in Explosive Testimony, a White House aide told the January 6th committee that on
0:20.3	the day of the riot, President Trump was warned ahead of time that his supporters were
0:26.1	armed, that he demanded security on the national mall be removed, and that he sought to personally
0:34.1	join the mall at the Capitol.
0:39.8	I spoke with my colleague, Luke Broadwater, about what we learned, and how likely it now
0:46.0	is that Trump will be charged with a federal crime.
0:56.4	It's Wednesday, June 29.
1:06.3	Luke, that has to have been the most astonishing congressional hearing I have ever watched,
1:12.7	and I have watched hundreds of congressional hearings.
1:18.1	Language almost fails me when I try to characterize the experience of watching that testimony
1:23.7	I'm gulps-backed.
1:25.6	It was really astonishing.
1:27.8	I too have never seen anything like it to have an aide like that with that kind of access
1:33.3	to the president give essentially a fly on the wall account of one of the most extraordinary
1:39.9	days in American history.
1:42.5	That is an extremely rare moment on Capitol Hill.
1:45.7	So set this all up for us, because everything about this hearing was a surprise.
1:53.3	It wasn't even supposed to happen.
1:54.9	Yes, that's right.
1:56.5	We were getting ready for a two week break on Capitol Hill.
2:01.2	The committee wasn't supposed to have its next hearing till mid-July, and then all of
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