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From cassidy hutchinson, quite insistent about wanting to get up to the capitol, even as he was being told the secret service, no, mr. president, you have to go back to the white house. lets bring in bret baier, fox news political anchor and anchor and executive editor of special report. we were sitting together, bret, and you had the reaction to the tale she told of the president in the dining room following that. >> bret: first, the dining room and then inside the beast, the car, the limo, say...

Even though he did not end up going, he certainly wanted to. some have questioned whether genuinely planned to come here to the capitol on january 6th. book, mark meadows falsely wrote after president trump gave his speech on january 6th he told mr. meadows he was "speaking metaphorically" about the walk to the capitol. you will see donald trump was not speaking -- and mr. trump planned to travel to the capitol on january 6th. pause for just a moment to ask you, miss hutchinson, to explain some ...

Of his mindset at the time which was he didnt think they did anything wrong. the people who did something wrong that day, or the person who did something wrong was mike pence by not standing with him. >> the presidents advisers urged him to give the speech. >> who convinced him to do the video on the 7th? >> im not sure who convinced him or if it was a group of people that convinced him. >> who was in the group that you are aware of? >> that im aware of, mark, ivanka, jared kushner, eric, pat ci...

>> there are many discussions of the rhetoric of the speech. mr. herschmann said we would be foolish to include language at the presidents request, headlines along to the effect of fight for trump, we are gonna march to the capitol, ill be there with you, fight for me, fight for what we are doing, fight for the movement, things about the vice president at the time, too. both mr. herschmann and the white house counsels office were urging the speech writers to not include that language for legal c...

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...

And president trump people know over the years and people out there shared his feelings of frustration, the problem was they could not back it up with anything in the courts and could not back it up with evidence they produced, and that obviously was probably a source of deep frustration as well. things were clearly not going his way. its revolutionary in terms of character and action and people to take in and do with that information what they will over the course of time. whether or not the d....

Sounded rushed but also frustrated and angry at me and i was confused because i did not know what the president had just said. he then explained the president just said hes marching to the capitol. you told me this whole week you are not coming up here, why would you lie to me. i said im not lying, i wasnt lying to you, sir. we are not going to the capitol and he said well, he just said it on stage, cassidy, figure it out, dont come up here. i said ill run the traps on this and shoot you a text....

Mike pence for not having the courage to refuse to count electoral votes, an act that would have been in legal. matthew potinger, former marine intelligence officer served in the white house four years, including as deputy national security adviser, was in the vicinity of the oval office at various points throughout the day. when he saw that tweet, he immediately decided to resign his position. lets watch him describe his reaction to the presidents tweet. >> one of my staff brought me a printout...

Interviews with us. >> having a private conversation with pat late in the afternoon the 3rd or 4th. that pat was concerned it would look like we were obstructing justice or obstructing the electoral college count and i apologize for probably not being very -- my legal terms here, but that it would look like we are obstructing what was happening on capitol hill and he was also worried it would look like we were inciting a riot or encouraging a riot on the capitol. >> in fact, in the days before j...

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 ...