Cassidy Hutchinson
Work in Progress with Sophia Bush
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🗓️ 1 November 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
She found herself smack dab in the middle of a political firestorm during the Trump administration . . . now the former White House aide is telling all in her new book, "Enough."
Cassidy Hutchinson joins Sophia to discuss the events leading up to the January 6th Capital attack, Trump's gleeful reaction to the chaos, his refusal to send a tweet to diffuse the situation for hours, and her bombshell testimony before the House committee investigating the attacks and the fallout.
Plus, Hutchinson shares her journey to the White House, why she aligned herself with the Republican Party, and taking accountability for being complacent during the attacks on the Capital.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back for another episode of Work in Progress, Friends. |
| 0:08.8 | I am so excited about today's guest. |
| 0:12.3 | I am a fan and admirer, a person who has questioned their experience legacy. |
| 0:22.0 | I have wondered about everything from motivation to courage where today's guest is concerned |
| 0:27.4 | because we are joined by none other than Cassidy Hutchinson today. |
| 0:32.8 | Cassidy's desk, as you likely know from the January 6th hearings, was mere steps from |
| 0:38.0 | the most controversial president in recent, perhaps, total American history. |
| 0:44.5 | And in her book Enough, she is providing a riveting account of her extraordinary experiences |
| 0:50.5 | as an idealistic young woman who was thrust into the middle of a national crisis, where |
| 0:57.1 | she wound up having to risk everything to tell the truth about some of the most powerful |
| 1:02.4 | people in Washington. |
| 1:05.6 | Today I get to ask Cassidy what made her aspire to work in government, why she loves this |
| 1:12.5 | country, about her working class family background, and what led her to go and work for Republicans |
| 1:20.4 | on the hill. |
| 1:22.4 | And past that, the dramatic turn that her life took on January 6th, 2021, when it just |
| 1:28.6 | 24 years old, she found herself smack in the middle of one of the most extraordinary, |
| 1:34.1 | an unprecedented calamities in modern political history. |
| 1:39.0 | Cassidy was faced with a choice between being loyal to the Trump administration or loyal |
| 1:43.7 | to our country by revealing what she saw and heard in the attempt to overthrow a democratic |
| 1:50.5 | election. |
| 1:51.9 | And it's wild for me to think about what it must have been like for her, you know, just |
| 1:55.9 | a few years out of college to become one of the most pivotal witnesses in the House January |
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