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Concerned about the legal implications of such a trip. and he agreed with the secret service that it shouldnt happen. miss hutchinson, did you have any conversations with pat about his concerns about the president going to the capitol on january 6th? >> on january 3rd, pat had approached me knowing that mark had raised the prospect of going to the capitol on january 6th. we had a brief private conversation where he said to me make sure it does not happen, legally a terrible idea, we have serious...

Tv, chief? the tv was small, and you could see it but i didnt know if he was really paying attention. watching tv, chief? yeah. rioters are getting really close, have you talked to the president? >> no, he wants to be alone right now, still looking at his phone. so i start to get frustrated because i sort of felt like i was watching -- this is not a great comparison, but a bad car accident about to happen where you cant stop it but you want to be able to do something. and i remember thinking in ...

Michael flynn regarding what would play out the next day. miss hutchinson, is it your understanding the president asked mark me does to speak with roger stone and general flynn on january 5th? >> thats correct, that is my understanding. >> and miss hutchinson, is it your understanding meadows called mr. stone on the 5th? >> i understand mr. meadows completed a call to mr. stone and general flynn the evening of the 5th. >> do you know what they talked about that evening? >> im not sure. >> is it ...

Propped open and said something, mark is on his phone, i remember glancing in, hes on his phone and i remember pat saying to him something to the effect of the rioters have gotten to the capitol, mark, we need to go down and see the president now. and mark looked up and said he doesnt want to do anything, pat. and pat said something to the effect of and very clearly said, something to the effect of mark, something needs to be done or people are going to die and the blood is going to be on your f...

At our later hearings. we have evidence of many others, imploring donald trump and mark meadows to take action. here is some of that evidence, text messages sent to mark meadows during the attack. text message at 2:32 from laura ingram. hey mark, the president needs to tell people in the capitol to go home. the next message, this is hurting all of us, and then hes destroying his legacy, and playing into every stereotype. we lose all credibility against the b.l.m. antifa crowd if things go south....

Marched from the washington monument to the capitol that day, and led the riot mob to invade and occupy our capitol. i want to play you a clip of one of our meetings when you described a call on january 4th th that you received from national security adviser robert obrien on the same topic, potential violence on january 6th. >> i received a call from the national security adviser. he had asked if he could speak with mr. meadows about potential vie -- words of violence he was hearing that were po...

Had you seen this note before? >> thats a note that i wrote at the direction of the chief of staff on january 6th, likely around 3:00. >> and written on a chief of staff note card but thats your handwriting, miss hutchinson? >> my handwriting. >> why did you write that note? >> chief of staff was in a meeting with eric herschmann, and mark handed me the note card with one of his pens and started dictating a statement for the president to potentially put out. >> and im sorry, go ahead. >> thats o...

Connected with mark about the issue. >> miss hutchinson, can you describe chief of staff? >> deputy chief of staff at the white house for operations is arguably one of the most important positions somebody can hold. theyre in charge of all security protocol for the campus and all presidential protectees, president and first family, and presidential protection, so the chief of staff, or the national security adviser, as well as the vice presidents team, too. tony would oversee all of that and he ...

>> a couple minutes later, so likely around between 2:15 and 2:25, i know the tweet went out at 2:24, i dont remember if i was there when the tweet went out or happened afterwards, but jim had called, i answered the phone. i said one second, he knew it was -- i introduced myself, i dont remember if he called my cell phone or one of marks, but i answered the phone and said one sec, mark is down the hall ill hand the phone to him. ok. so i asked the valet if mark was in the dining room, valet said...

Process of crafting those remarks. >> i learned from a conversation with mark and overhearing between him and white house counsel and eric herschmann as well that he didnt feel he needed to do anything more on the 7th than what he had already done on the 6th. when he was convinced to put out a video on the 7th, i understand he had a lot of opinions about what the context of that announcement were to entail. i had original drafts of the speech, several lines did not make it in there, about prosec...