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December 18th meeting that, as you described, was viewed in the white house as unhinged and was this sort of meeting as these external advisers pushing trump to do things, like embracing voting machines and declaring martial law in all these extreme acts steps to remain in power. and byrne had not spoken to him yet. he had spoken to sydney powell, who is, there and michael flynn, who pled the fifth rather than answer questions. he was one person who seemed eager to talk and could given a full accounting of what went on in that room. >> what do we know about -- kyle, what do we know about the s...

There in the room for that crazy 18th of december 2020 meeting. it was between trump and these external advisers, patrick burn, sydney powell, and michael flynn. he told the former president that you could make sydney powell a special counsel, but it would be a terrible idea. passive lonely was also in the room leading up to january 6th. he told the former president at his ideas about overturning the election in trying to pressure pence to throw the election to the house, all of these things would be unlawful. when you have a white house counsel -- all these efforts to overturn the election or...

Investigation. that is all it was about. >> when asked if he is in touch with the fbi or just department about january six, byrne had no comment. he had a healthy dig into all of this. washington post national political reporter isaac -- isaac, good morning. most the country had not heard of burn until this week. what could be so special about this man's testimony? what is going to set it apart from other trump allies that we have already heard from? >> like you mentioned, katie, he was in that meeting that we heard so much about. >> sorry, isaac, i'm gonna cut you off. i apologize. isaac, i a...

Confusion around what happened with these messages. but, why is there so much interest? well, the key testimony from cassidy hutchinson detailed a lot of president trump's actions around the presidents and with the presence of secret service, including him angrily demanding that he be taken to the capitol, instead of back to the white house on january six. but committee is really looking for any and all testimony and documents that can help piece together what exactly happened on january 6th and trump's actions or inaction. they are talking to anyone and everyone, including the former -- ceo p...

Through this process that they will schedule hearings should the investigation warrant. >> the investigation goes on and we have some anticipation that we were closer to the investigation right now. but the fact is, witnesses continue to come forward. so we are reserving the right to do more hearings as these but nurses come forward, and i think hopefully we will have a lot of work remaining to do. one of those witnesses's patrick burn, the former ceo of overstocked.com. he testified before the committee earlier today after his name come up at tuesday's hearing. witnesses for the committee tes...