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cassidy hutchinson. her two hour blockbuster appearance before the january 6 committee included testimony that the former president and top aides were warned that some supporters at the elipse were armed with weapons like knives, guns, bear spray, tasers. hutchinson had a unique vantage point critical to conversations never revealed before yesterday. she said that trump grew irate that the security screenings on january 6 were apparently deterring his supporters, his armed supporters, from joining the crowd. so furious that he ordered his aides to have the metal de detectors removed....

The finnish leader and the swedish leader just kind of getting a gut check on the details, contours of the plan. he did sign off and so the president and erdogan will meet later today and really is an historic development. >> and development that he was working behind the scenes effect definitively now turns out. but domestically, it is striking that he is struggling more. there are so many different issues, whether it is inflation or gas. i mean, guns. voting. there is just so many more things, so many more obstacles, it has to be frustrating for this white house. >> yeah, certainly is. and u...

Action and he does. or congress says no and he does it anyway. i can't figure it out. >> the most confusing thing is, not that the president would seek action, that's what he promised, that's what president bush was doing wrong. he said things need to be more collaborative. why for the better part of this last week he wasn't going to seek congressional approval and why he was going to go it alone and why yesterday he had this change of heart and that he's now going to seek congressional authorization but even if they don't give it to me, still the power to act alone. if you're confused, you're...

Launch a counterattack. waited and got authorization. >> look, the idea as the president would have us believe in his speech today he is suddenly so concerned with the proper role of congress and our constitutional democracy is preposterous, totally ridiculous on its face. this is a president who spent the better part of the last three yes campaigning on his ability and willingness to circumvent congress on everything. virtually every substantive issue the president has been telling feel i don't need to wait for congress. i can do it on my own. the authority determine when congress is or is no...