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Laura Coates Live

Secret Service corroborates Hutchinson’s testimony on Trump

Laura Coates Live

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3.92.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Two Secret Service sources corroborate Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony, telling CNN that Trump angrily demanded to go to the Capitol on January 6 and berated his protective detail when he didn’t get his way. That, as the New York Times reports the Trump political organization pays the legal fees of some select committee witnesses, raising concerns of witness pressure.Nancy Northup is President & CEO of the Center for Reproductive Rights. Her organization filed lawsuits this week that have succeeded in temporarily blocking abortion bans in Louisiana, Texas, and Florida. She joins to talk about the Op-ed she wrote urging Biden to declare a public health emergency for abortion. Steve Hall is the former CIA Chief of Russia operations. He joins to discuss WNBA Star Brittney Griner’s trial for drug smuggling which starts today, Russia’s legal system and how Griner could be used as a pawn in Putin’s prisoner swap drama. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is CNN Tonight. We're tracking two major developments related to the

0:05.0

testimony from a 26-year-old former top aid in the Trump White House. It cannot

0:10.0

be overstated how impactful Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony to the January 6

0:14.4

committee has been proof the ongoing campaign to discredit her by Donald

0:19.1

Trump himself and his allies since she went under oath to describe what she saw

0:23.6

and heard on and around January 6th. Now they've been taking aim at her second

0:29.1

hand account calling it hearsay when she testified that on Insurrection Day an

0:34.0

angry Donald Trump demanded his secret service detailed drive him to the

0:37.6

Capitol lunging at them and the steering wheel. But tonight Hutchinson has new

0:42.5

corroboration from secret service sources on part of her testimony. CNN spoke

0:47.6

with two secret service employees including a longtime member both say they

0:52.4

also heard about a confrontation in the presidential SUV after the rally. A story

0:58.6

they say spread widely around the agency in the weeks and months after

1:02.8

January 6th though neither source heard the part about Trump trying to grab the

1:07.4

steering wheel or any physical altercation with a security agent. One source did

1:12.9

hear from agents that Trump indeed demanded to be taken to the Capitol,

1:17.4

shouting something like, I'm the F and president and lunging forward in the

1:21.3

vehicle, then be raiding his protective detail when he didn't get his way. The

1:25.9

second source said they heard the account directly from the driver of that SUV.

1:31.2

The most important detail corroborated Trump wanted to join rioters at the

1:37.1

Capitol even though he allegedly knew some who came from his rally were armed.

1:42.0

The other concerning development is the new information about who may have been

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