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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 o'brien 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 potentially going to happen on the hill on january 6th. i had asked if he had connected with tony orn...

Had you seen this note before? >> that's 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 that's 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 i'm sorry, go ahead. >> that's ok. there were two phrases on there. one illegal and then one without proper authority. the illeg...

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. they're 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 president's team, too. tony would oversee all of that and he was the conduit for security protocol between white house staff and the united states secret servi...

>> a couple minutes later, so likely around between 2:15 and 2:25, i know the tweet went out at 2:24, i don't 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 don't remember if he called my cell phone or one of mark's, but i answered the phone and said one sec, mark is down the hall i'll hand the phone to him. ok. so i asked the valet if mark was in the dining room, valet said yes. i opened the door to the dining room, briefly stepped in to get mark's attention, showed h...

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 didn't 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 prosecuting the rioters or calling them violent. he didn't want that in there. he wanted to put in that h...