👀 Hutchinson recounts a bizarre episode in whith House Intelligence Committee Republicans, including Rep. Devin Nunes and staffers, carted over classified documents to the WH for Meadows and Pat Cipollone to review.
CHENEY remarks that this is pretty unusual for House Republicans to truck classified docs to the White House when they have their own SCIF.
What did Meadows do with the documents? He made a bunch of copies and kept some to give out to people in the "private sector," Hutchinson says. While it's not entirely clear what these are, this is consistent with Russia docs Trump attempted to declassify.
MOST NOTABLY: Hutchinson said Meadows wanted GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy to have a set of the records.
MORE: Hutchinson said that Meadows was extremely secretive about the original HPSCI copy of the documents in his office, which she says he kept in a safe and didn't want others to know about. january6th.house.gov/sites/democrat…
HUTCHINSON said she recalled some conversations among Trump and GOP members of Congress about QAnon, the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys ahead of Jan. 6.
Here's Hutchinson talking about Matt Gaetz's bid for a pardon, which she said began in early December 2020.
HUTCHINSON said that several GOP lawmakers reached out to her after Jan. 6 w/ question sabout White House's preparedness for the 25th amendment discussion. She name: Markwayne Mullin, Roy Blunt, Mike Johnson and GOP Leader McCarthy as people she talked about it with.
House admin staff director Jamie FLEET — a top adviser to Speaker Pelosi — told the select committee in an interview that he and his staff began preparing for GOP objections to the election over the summer of 2020 — because they read Trump's tea leaves.
FLEET says he never conveyed directly to Speaker Pelosi the security briefings from Capitol Police and the sergeant at arms because they were assured the professionals had it in hand.
Max MILLER’s attorney got particularly hostile with the select committee over what appeared to be pretty basic foundational questions.
The hostility actually got worse from there, prompting Kinzinger to jump in and accidentally refer to the committee as "the prosecution," which didn't help.
Miller accused Cheney of trying to intimidate him because "I knocked your buddy" — Anthony Gonzalez — "off the block."
Max Miller notes he advised Trump not to let Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman or Sidney Powell speak at his Jan. 6 rally. He also recommended that Mike Flynn not be permitted to speak. But Trump didn't take that advice for Rudy/Eastman.
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More notably, Armes thinks he’s the source of several key passages of the ‘1776 Returns’ document later shared with Enrique Tarrio. He says he drew up some similar thoughts and shared them with a friend, Erika Flores, who appears to have passed them to Tarrio.
Armes said he wrote it as an intellectual exercise, something not specific to Trump or Jan. 6, and either Erika Flores or someone she knows used his ideas to turn them into the ‘1776 Returns’ document. Here’s how he describes his thought process
NEW: The Jan. 6 select committee's final report documents how members of right-wing extremist groups and QAnon adherents disproportionately led the first wave of the attack on the Capitol.
@nicholaswu12 The report also catalogues to links between some of those extremists and figures with direct ties to Trump, like Roger Stone, Alex Jones and, more recently, Nick Fuentes. politico.com/news/2022/12/2…
@nicholaswu12 NOTABLE: Trump had a 23 minute call with John EASTMAN the same day he started drafting his infamous memo about the Jan. 6 strategy. politico.com/news/2022/12/2…
NEW: While the attack on the Capitol was ongoing, Enrique Tarrio texted three times with Alex Jones. Ethan Nordean and other Proud Boys facing seditious conspiracy charges were also regularly in touch with Jones' sidekick Owen Shroyer on and just before Jan. 6.
The cover of Chapter 8, the analysis of the attack on the Capitol, is an image of Enrique Tarrio in a Jan. 5 video he dubbed "Premonition."