Jan. 6 hearing live updates: Witness: Irate Trump grabbed wheel, demanded to go to Capitol
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In videotaped testimony, Hutchinson recalled seeing Meadows in his office at the White House, flipping through his phone as Trump supporters marched to the Capitol, and then violently breaching it.
« I said, ‘The rioters are getting really close. Have you talked to the president?' » she recalled. « Meadows said, ‘No. He wants to be alone right now.' »
« I felt like I was watching, » she continued in taped testimony, « a bad car accident that was about to happen. You can’t stop it but you want to do something. I remember thinking in that moment that Mark needs to snap out of this. »
She recalled White House counsel Pat Cipollone « barreling » towards Meadows’ office, and saying something to the effect of, » »Mark, something needs to be done, or people are going to die and blood is going to be on your effing hands. ‘ »
She later overheard Cipollone and Meadows talking about the « Hang Mike Pence » chants at the Capitol.
« You heard it Pat — he thinks Mike deserves it. He thinks they aren’t doing anything wrong, » Meadows said to Cipollone when the White House lawyer said they needed to respond, according to Hutchinson.
-ABC News’ Benjamin Siegel
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