Cassidy Hutchinson, an ex-top aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, is reportedly set to testify in front of the House Select Committee in the sixth January 6 hearing on Tuesday.

Hutchinson, however, had already testified to the committee behind closed doors ahead of the beginning of the televised hearings.

While the exact details of what she shared with committee, which held sessions exceeding 20 hours with her, is not known directly, the Washington Post reported that Hutchinson had “provided extensive information about Meadows’s activities in trying to overturn the election.”

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Hutchinson, who was well-acquainted with Meadows and the White House Schedule, also reportedly told the committee that she saw Meadows incinerating documents after meeting Rep Scott Perry after the 2020 Presidential elections.

Indeed, in a testimony released by the House committee in April, it was revealed that Hutchinson had named Perry, in addition to Jim Jordan, Marjorie Taylor Greene, and Lauren Boebert as members of Congress “who were raising the idea of the vice president doing anything other than just counting electoral votes on January the 6th.”

She also claimed that nine Republican lawmakers, including Jordan and Greene, had discussed how to delay the joint session of Congress that formally declares a winner in the Presidential, in addition to discussing how to block the counting of votes.

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“They felt that he had the authority to—pardon me if my phrasing isn’t correct on this, but—send votes back to the states or the electors back to the states,” Hutchinson had testified.

The former White House aide also testified that Meadows had been warned by the Secret Service of “potential violence” in the aftermath of the elections, “And Mr. Meadows said: All right. Let’s talk about it.” Hutchinson added that she was “not sure” about what Meadows did with said information or whether he treated it as a “genuine concern.”

The most explosive revelation by Hutchinson, however, pertains to former President Donald Trump, who is being investigated for instigating the Jan 6 insurrection.

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In May 2022, Politico reported that the House committee had heard testimony indicating that Meadows heard Trump make a comment in support of the mob chanting “Hang Mike Pence.” According to the publication, a witness told the committee that Meadows was in the dining room of the Oval Office when he heard that “that Trump had signaled a positive view of the prospect of hanging the vice president.” Subsequently, The New York Times reported that Meadows complained about Trump’s comments to Hutchinson, who, in turn, narrated the incident to the House committee during her earlier closed door meetings.

Given the fact that Hutchinson had direct access to what went on behind the scenes in the build-up to and after the January 6 insurrection, her live testimony in the surprise sixth session of the televised hearings promises to be an explosive one.