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overturn the election results. that man is donald trumps top white house lawyer pat cipollone. he sat down for a transcribed interview under oath with investigators this morning. as far as we can tell, that interview or that meeting is ongoing at this hour. punch bowl news reports this about the parameters of todays testimony from cipollone, quote, sources tell us that the select committee does not have an agreement about what investigators can or cannot ask him. prior to hutchinsons t...

understand about january 6th and the conspiracy, the plan to carry out a coup. the hearing centered around the explosive testimony of a single witness, 25-year-old cassidy hutchinson. shes a trump white house aide who did what so many of her colleagues and her bosses, including her direct boss, chief of staff mark meadow have so far refused to do. she told the truth. she cooperated with the panel having sat for four taped interviews before todays testimony. this afternoon in public she...

flank, including new troop movements, equipment, shipments, and military installations. some of them permanent. all of this as russias relentless war on ukraine grinds on. >> so many significant developments to get to there. back here in the united states, groundbreaking testimony from a former top aide in the trump white house, cassidy hutchinson, describing in great detail the former presidents state of mind that on and around january 6th, and his actions, also testifying that trump ...

Does it mean answering, or does it mean being forthcoming and helpful? what we do know is that cipollone had to decide whether to defend his former boss or defend democracy. the same democracy and its rituals that he so forcefully championed in that first impeachment trial that is, as with all things trump, on tape. aaron blake of the "washington post" points this out, "it would be one thing if pat cipollone was a true believer who might believe the former president did have the election stolen ...

Warnings about people being armed. but again, poppy, we talked about this sort of as a nation, over the last couple of weeks, what it takes to win a criminal trial and what it takes to convince the american public that number one someone did something really bad and shouldnt be president again just two different standards. and thats the burden that the justice department or any prosecutor is going to have to hit here. >> it is very true. speaking of convincing a jury and speaking of lawyers, let...

Often the white house counsel warned those around the president not to let him march to the u.s. capitol with his supporters. because the legal consequences would be extreme. >> i saw mr. cipollone right before i walked out on to west exec that morning, and mr. cipollone said something to the effect of, please make sure we dont go up to the capitol, cassidy. keep in touch with me. were going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen. >> and do you remember which ...