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MTP NOW June 28 — Amb. Bill Taylor, Carol Leonnig, Chuck Rosenberg, Steve Kornacki

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🗓️ 28 June 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

During Tuesday’s Jan. 6 committee hearing, White House Aide Cassidy Hutchinson described former President Donald Trump throwing his lunch at the wall. Primaries in multiple states nationwide including in Colorado, Illinois, and Mississippi are underway, coming days after the reversal of Roe v. Wade. NBC News National Political Correspondent Steve Kornacki previews Tuesday’s races from the big board. Finland and Sweden joining NATO is the “opposite of what President Putin wanted,” says former Amb. Bill Taylor.

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0:00.0

President tied to the January 6th insurrection.

0:11.7

The new evidence committee members claimed they could not wait to deliver and why it matters in just a moment.

0:19.3

Plus, the fight for abortion rights in a post-row America, the White House

0:23.8

releasing new details on the administration's plan to protect reproductive rights. As Democrats

0:29.5

urge President Biden to use every lever of government to fight back details on that plan and

0:35.1

the reaction to it is ahead.

0:46.9

And if it's Tuesday, someone's voting somewhere, voters across the country hitting the polls with a slew of hot button issues, including the former president on their minds. Thank you. Welcome to Meet the Press Now.

1:01.4

I'm Peter Alexander in today for my friend Chuck.

1:03.7

And in a surprise January 6th committee hearing that wrapped up just a few moments ago, a former

1:08.5

White House insider painted a dramatic portrait of a president

1:12.6

unhinged on January 6th, willing to defy the wishes and warnings of his lawyers, his advisors,

1:19.4

and his secret service detail in an effort to overturn the election and to try to march with his

1:24.1

armed supporters to the Capitol. The star witness today was this young woman,

1:28.5

a 25-year-old, Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to then-chief of staff, Mark Meadows. She was in the

1:35.1

West Wing and with President Trump on January 6th, literally in the room where all of this happened.

1:40.4

Hutchinson describing the warnings received from the White House that the rally could turn violent that went unanswered by Meadows.

1:47.8

She also recounted how President Trump was angry that his supporters couldn't get through magnetometers,

1:52.9

those security machines at his rally at the ellipse that morning because they were armed,

1:57.9

which she says both the president and Mr. Meadows knew.

2:03.3

I was in the vicinity of a conversation where I overheard the president say something to the

2:07.9

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

2:13.4

Take the effing bags away. Let my people in. They can march the capital from here. Let the people

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