{"id":40912,"date":"2022-06-28T21:04:28","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T21:04:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/jan-6-committee-hearings-cheney-describes-possible-witness-tampering-after-ex-aide-s-testimony-as-it-happened"},"modified":"2022-06-28T21:04:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-28T21:04:28","slug":"jan-6-committee-hearings-cheney-describes-possible-witness-tampering-after-ex-aide-s-testimony-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/jan-6-committee-hearings-cheney-describes-possible-witness-tampering-after-ex-aide-s-testimony-as-it-happened","title":{"rendered":"Jan 6 committee hearings: Cheney describes possible witness tampering after ex-aide&#8217;s testimony &#8211; as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>10.04pm BST Hutchinson&#8217;s testimony summary That&#8217;s it from me, after a historic day in Washington. Here&#8217;s how the January 6 committee&#8217;s sixth public hearing unfolded: A former senior White House aide testified that Donald Trump knew some of his supporters were armed on January 6 and still encouraged them to march on the Capitol. Cassidy Hutchinson, a former senior adviser to White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, said she overheard a conversation with Trump shortly before he addressed a rally crowd on January 6. &#8220;I don&#8217;t f&#8217;ing care that they have weapons. They&#8217;re not here to hurt me,&#8221; Trump said, according to Hutchinson. &#8220;Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here.&#8221; The rally where Trump spoke culminated in the insurrection, which resulted in several deaths. Liz Cheney described potential witness tampering among Trump&#8217;s allies in connection to the January 6 investigation. Cheney, the Republican vice-chair of the committee, quoted testimony from two witnesses who said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cassidy Hutchinson says Trump knew his supporters had guns when he urged them to march to the Capitol &#8211; follow all the latest news<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[81,42,43],"class_list":["post-40912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-capitol","tag-politics","tag-u-s-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}