Good evening, Anderson Cooper here in Washington along with Jake Tapper. Tonight, a hearing

of the January 6th Committee for which no adjective is possible because no superlative

may be sufficient. After all, how do you characterize testimony now being disputed that the

Commander-in-Chief was sole authority to launch a nuclear strike, allegedly was literally,

as in physically, grabbing a secret service agent.

Have you described testimony that the leader of the greatest democracy on earth sent a mob

he knew to be armed to the seat of that democracy, then agreed allegedly with members of the

mob who were crying out that his vice president, Mike Pence, should be hanged.

From the beginning to end today, what former White House staffer Cassidy Hutchison testified

she saw and heard as a close aide to then chief of staffed Mark Meadows has never been

said publicly before and some of it has probably never been considered imaginable before in

the President of the United States. Hutchison testified in person and previously on tape that

his crowds were gathering for his January 6th rally. He wanted metal detectors outside

the ellipse, known as magnetometers or mags, taken away. That he wanted it even though

he knew that some who tried to get through already had been armed.

When we were in the off stage announced tent, I was part of a conversation. I was in the

vicinity of a conversation where I overheard the President say something to the effect of,

you know, I don't effing care that they have weapons. They're not here to hurt me. Take

the effing mags away. Let my people in. They can march the capital from here. Love the

people in. Take the effing mags away.

Just to be clear, Ms. Hutchinson, is it your understanding that the President wanted

to take the mags away and said that the armed individuals were not there to hurt him?

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