The sixth hearing from the House Select Committee investigating Jan. 6 was held on Tuesday. This hearing focussed on what was going on in the White House on and before Jan. 6, based on newly obtained information, Committee Chair Bennie Thompson said in his opening statement.

Specifically, the Committee received “detailed information about what the former President and his top aides were doing and saying in those critical hours.”

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On Tuesday former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows’s top aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified before the committee investigating the Jan. 6 attacks at the Capitol.

Ms Hutchinson has already provided information to the committee behind closed doors, sitting with the investigators over the span of three separate interviews. She’s the first White House employee to testify publicly before the committee.

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The committee had announced a surprise extra hearing that will contain new evidence of Donald Trump’s “dereliction of duty”.

She said he told her this after she spoke with former President Donald Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani, who told her “something to the effect of ‘we’re going to the Capitol.'”

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Hutchinson said that Meadows “was scrolling through his phone; I remember leaning against the doorway and saying, ‘I just had an interesting conversation with Rudy, Mark. It sounds like we’re going to go to the Capitol.’ He didn’t look up from his phone and said something to the effect of ‘there’s a lot going on, Cass, but I don’t know, things might get real, real bad on Jan. 6.”

Hutchinson also told the committee that she heard the names of two far-right groups, the Proud Boys and Oath Keeper, mentioned leading up to Jan. 6, 2021.

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“I recall hearing the word ‘Oath Keeper’ and hearing the word ‘Proud Boys’ closer to the planning of the January 6 rally, when Mr. Giuliani would be around,” Hutchinson said in a video the committee played of one of her previous depositions.