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the january six committee, prepping a hearing for tuesday after landing a major witness. trump s white house counsel, pat cipollone, testifying for eight hours friday. and a videotaped and transcript closed-door interview. now remember the committee said that cipollone did not contradict testimony of other witnesses, and a source told nbc news that he was cooperative, quote. cipollone was inside the white house and the days leading up to the insurrection you may recall, including a white house meeting with discussions about seizing voting machines and sending false letters to state officials about election fraud. and he was also in the west wing on january 6th, during the eight hour testimony he was likely peppered with questions about bombshell testimony invoking his name. watch. presidents white house counsel s pat cipollone was also present. do you remember what his position was? pat was very supportive. pat cipollone throughout these conversations was extremely ....
eight hour has to money he was likely peppered with questions about bombshell testimony invoking his name. watch. presidents white house counsel s pat cipollone was also present. do you remember what his position was? pat was very supportive. pat cipollone throughout these conversations was extremely supportive of the justice department. i saw mr. cipollone right before i walked out on the west exact that morning, and mr. cipollone said something to the effect of please make sure we don t go up to the capitol capacity, keep in touch with me. we are going to get charged with every crime imaginable. our committee is certain that donald trump does not want mr. cipollone to testify here. indeed, our evidence shows that mr. cipollone and his office tried to do what was right. we think the american people deserve to hear mr. cipollone personally. so this important testimony is likely to be revealed this week and we will also hear from another key witness it seems, ....
Hutchinson s testimony damning and that trump allies were scared. now the tuesday hearing will focus on a direct connections between far-right extremist groups and people in trump s orbit. let s break all this down now with barbara mcquade, former u.s. attorney and msnbc legal analyst, and romero moriarty a, former federal prosecutor legal affairs columnist for politico. great to have you both of us with us. barbara, i would like to start with you. after that testimony yesterday, a member of the committee representing zoe lofgren saying, that cipollone did not contradict the testimony of previous witnesses which was pretty important. then she described the interview as quote, worthwhile. what are you expecting to come from this testimony? where could he be critical in connecting certain dots? i think he can shed a lot of light on a few things. some of the areas they agreed to talk about, one in mention that meeting with the justice department on january 3rd, ....
Sarah matthews, a former deputy press secretary will be under oath. she will be live on tv. she resigned from the administration on the night of january 6th, saying that she was quote, deeply disturbed. matthews calling cassidy hutchinson s testimony damning and that trump allies were scared. now the tuesday hearing will focus on a direct connections between far-right extremist groups and people in trump s orbit. let s break all this down now with barbara mcquade, former u.s. attorney and msnbc legal analyst, and romero moriarty a, former federal prosecutor legal affairs columnist for politico. great to have you both of us with us. or read like to start with you. after that testimony yesterday, a member of the cow committee representing zoe lofgren saying, that cipollone did not contradict the testimony of previous witnesses which was pretty important. then she she described the interview as quote, worthwhile. what are you expecting to come ....