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Coming up, a preview of today's abruptly announced January 6th hearing.

It's your Politico Playbook Daily briefing.

On Monday afternoon, the House January 6th committee, which was supposed to be on a hiatus for the next two weeks,

abruptly announced it would be holding a hearing today at 1 p.m., to quote, present recently obtained evidence and receive witness testimony.

The star witness today is Cassidy Hutchinson, a former executive assistant, two ex-chief of staff Mark Meadows,

who's already testified three times behind closed doors back in February, March, and May.

Hutchinson, quite simply, knows a lot. Before, on, and after January 6th, she had close proximity

to both Meadows and then President Donald Trump. She told the committee back in March, quote,

almost all, if not all meetings Mr. Trump had,

I had insight on.

She's already been the source of a series of extraordinary revelations.

Politico's Betsy Woodruff Swan and Kyle Cheney reported back in May that Hutchinson, quote,

told the panel investigating the Capitol attack that she saw Meadows incinerate documents after meeting in his office with

Representative Scott Perry. Hutchinson testified that she remembered a Secret Service agent,

quote, coming in and saying, though we had Intel reports saying that there could potentially be

violence on the sixth. Hutchinson told the committee that the White House counsel's office

during a meeting with Meadows and Rudy Giuliani and others advised that the

scheme to have alternate electors meet and cast votes for Trump was not legal. Hutchinson has

given detailed testimony about a number of House Republicans who were involved with pressuring

former Vice President Mike Pence to reject electors during the joint session of Congress and

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