Welcome back today. We heard some of the most damning, stunning testimony. We've heard

to date not only in the January 6 hearings, but frankly in American history. This testimony

about what exactly former president Trump and those closest to him knew and did and on

and before January 6. For those of you who were just tuning in, today 26-year-old Cassidy

Hutchinson, a former top aide to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, publicly

testified on Capitol Hill. She says that Trump knew that some of his supporters had gathered

in Washington, D.C. on the National Mall with weapons and body armor on January 6. He

wanted a security to remove screening checkpoints with magnetometers because he felt, quote,

they're not here to hurt me. And then he wanted them, according to Hutchinson's testimony,

to go to March on the U.S. Capitol, knowing many of them were armed. I want to bring in

a member of the Committee Democratic Congresswoman Stephanie Murphy of Florida Congresswoman.

Thanks for joining us. So your committee vice chair, Congressman Liz Cheney says the committee

has evidence of potential witness tampering from the Trump world. Cheney says the committee

is considering, quote, next steps. Does that include possible criminal referral for possible

witness tampering or obstruction of Congress charges against members of the Trump team?

As you heard from the vice chair, we asked this question of all of our witnesses. And we

have gotten some troubling answers to the question of whether or not people have reached out

to them to talk to them in ways that are inappropriate as it relates to them being a witness

for the committee. And the committee takes this very seriously. And so we need to have some

further discussions as a committee. And that's pretty much where we are right now. And I

don't want to get beyond that and get in front of the committee.

So the committee had more than 20 hours of taped testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson. We

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