The testimony of Pat Cipollone, the former White House counsel, will be played by the committee.
The committee investigated the attack on the U.S. Capitol. The Washington Post's Michael Robinson Chavez took this picture.
The former top White House attorney had the chance to say whatever he wanted to say, according to the man.
Video clips of Cipollone's testimony will be shown during the committee's seventh hearing, which will center around how Trump associates like Roger Stone and Michael Flynn had connections to some of the far-right groups at the Capitol in January.
On December 19, 2020, Trump convened a meeting with Flynn, Giuliani and Powell to discuss more extreme ideas like taking custody of voting machines and making Powell a special counsel to investigate Trump's baseless claims of widespread voter fraud.
On January 6th, Trump announced a big protest in D.C.
The meeting that took place on December 18 was described by witnesses as the craziest meeting in the Trump presidency.
The committee did not announce witnesses for Tuesday's hearing due to security concerns, but multiple news outlets reported that a former spokesman for Oath Keepers and a Capitol rioter are among them.
Thursday's hearing was supposed to be a prime time show. Raskin told NBC News that the hearing may not be the last one. Over the course of the select committee, I have learned that we never say that the research is done. We are learning amazing new things every day.
The last hearing of the committee featured bombshell testimony from a former senior aide to the White House chief of staff. Hutchinson described a chaotic final few weeks of the Trump Administration, including Trump trying to grab the steering wheel of a presidential limo and lunging at a Secret Service agent after he was told he could not go to the Capitol due to security concerns. On the morning of January 6th, Hutchinson testified that Trump wanted metal detectors removed from the entrance to the rally because it slowed down the entry of armed people.
NBC News reported that a Secret Service agent and the driver of the limo are prepared to testify under oath that Trump did not lunge for the steering wheel and neither of them were attacked. Attorneys for Hutchinson said in a statement that she stands by her testimony, which was based on a conversation she had with another White House official. The man told NBC News that he didn't hear Cipollone contradict Hutchinson.
A panel member said that Cipollone was the only one who could corroborate everything from Hutchinson.
The biggest bombshells of Tuesday's hearing were from Trump attacking security to throwing a plate at a wall.
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