with the republican base here. still, she of course is not willing to say that she believes she s going to lose. she s still a political candidate after all, victor. now, sarah, if she loses this primary tomorrow, is it clear what s next for her? reporter: i mean, look, she s still going to have a huge stage. she s still presiding over the january 6th committee, these hearings, you know, she s an important member of that committee, an important voice on that committee, and we expect they are going to have more hearings in the coming months, so she s still going to be a big voice, and it s clear she wants to be a voice for abutting donald trump even after that. she has not knocked down the possibility of a run in 2024. whether she could actually get any traction i think is a big open question. but it is very clear she wants to be a voice in the republican party that continues to stand up to the lies donald trump has spread about the 2020 election. sara murray for us there in cheye
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not sure what s happened to all of them. some of them may have been sent to china for prosecution. very worrying, as well, many, many human rights groups in china and trades unions groups have simply stopped working because they are worried about repression, or even left hong kong altogether. and, most worrying of all, the groups who did testify to the un committee, it appears the committee could not get categoric cast iron assurances from hong kong stroke china that these people would not be persecuted for giving evidence to the committee. so, really, not a good look for china. the committee says the law should be repealed. it s you know, big open question, though, whether beijing is actually going to listen to any of that. hong kong s national security law was introduced injune 2020. and welcome back to over whether people will be persecuted giving
cassidy hutchinson, who had serious fears who rather said pat cipollone conveyed serious fears to her about what would happen on january 6th if the white house officials allowed trump to go to the capitol as he wanted. let s play what she had to say in her testimony. mr. cipollone said something to the effect of please make sure we don t go up to the capitol, cassidy. keep in touch with me. we re going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen. pat said something to the effect of and very clearly had said this to mark something to the effect of, mark, something needs to be done or people are going to die and the blood s going to be on your fing hands. and a big open question is whether cipollone will corroborate that testimony under oath. so, robert gibbs, you ve served in the white house. you know the importance of the white house counsel. the white house counsel is the
messages, they are stunning. i assume there are others we haven t seen that we will learn about, but what it adds up to it after the public hearings, where this is all going i think is a big open question. there is no question that the events of january 6th were horrifying to watch. what happens? do people get held accountable? we know a lot of people involved in the riot have been charged. does anyone else get charged beyond contempt of congress? we ll see. what do you think the stakes are for next week. in some ways we have known the hearings are coming but i also think they re sneaking up on us. they re a big deal. one set of stakes is for the country, that set of stakes is about the fact that what took place after november 3rd in the leadup to january 6th, there were aspects of it we have seen before in previous elections, mostly court challenges. and there were decidedly aspects we have not, conversations about at least in modern history, conversations about the insurrection a