Cassidy Hutchinson was one of the witnesses Trump world sought to influence, sources say

Anderson Cooper 360

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🗓️ 1 July 2022

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Sources tell CNN that Cassidy Hutchinson told the January 6 Committee that she was contacted by someone attempting to influence her testimony. This comes as Trump and his allies try to discredit her. Former Republican Congresswoman Barbara Comstock and Olivia Troye, a former adviser to Vice President Mike Pence, join Anderson to talk about what Hutchinson’s testimony says about the former administration’s view of staffers, especially women, who take the witness stand. And after 43 days on the run, the woman suspected of killing an elite cyclist who she thought was a romantic rival has been caught in Costa Rica. Randi Kaye has the latest in how the manhunt ended. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good evening.
0:01.9	We begin tonight with the effort to discredit Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony before the
0:05.4	House January 6th select committee, an effort to destroy the credibility of a 26-year-old
0:09.9	woman who had the courage to do what the former White House counsel and the former president's
0:14.1	own chief of staff do not have the courage to do.
0:17.3	Today is after telling the committee that the former president of the United States sent
0:20.1	to Maba people, some of whom he knew to be armed to the Capitol, Cassidy Hutchinson is
0:24.5	being attacked by the former president and his cotterie of defenders.
0:28.3	Then like Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan, top Republican on the Judiciary Committee, whose
0:32.0	Republican members are attacking her testimony, he does not have the courage she showed and
0:36.6	is refusing to tell the committee what he knows.
0:39.1	And like her former boss, then White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who are openly
0:42.9	defying us at Pina to testify and avoiding us as well.
0:46.5	We'd love to talk to him not under oath, but he's shown no willingness to even face questions
0:50.9	from reporters.
0:51.9	House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, me in time, is seeking to cast doubt on his Hutchinson's
0:56.1	testimony in the work of the committee.
1:00.1	This is just the continuation.
1:02.2	They're obsessed with Trump and this is all they want to do.
1:05.0	But this hearsay would never be allowed in the court of law.
1:09.4	We should point out nothing would be hearsay if Mr. Meadows or Pets of Polone would simply
1:13.3	testify under oath.
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