2. The committee is methodically trying to establish intent and premeditation.
It's a difficult threshold to reach, but the committee is deliberately and intentionally laying out the building blocks for intent and premeditation. At Tuesday's hearing, it showed:
-- Meadows was told of intelligence ahead of Jan. 6 that the day could get very violent. He shared that with Trump. But Meadows rarely had any reaction or seemed surprised at all and was equally nonplussed by the violence on the day of the insurrection, according to Hutchinson.
-- Meadows also participated, by phone — though he wanted to go in person — for a briefing with Roger Stone and retired Gen. Michael Flynn in the "War Room" they had set up on Jan. 5 in the Willard Hotel.
Stone and Flynn were intimately involved in the "Stop the Steal" movement. There are pictures of Stone with white supremacist militia functioning as his bodyguards on Jan. 6.
Flynn has been linked to the QAnon conspiracy and pleaded the Fifth, the right not to incriminate yourself, on multiple occasions before the Jan. 6 committee, including when asked simply if he believed in the peaceful transfer of power in the United States.
-- Trump knew of violent people in the crowd, knew they were armed, didn't want their weapons taken away and didn't feel threatened.
"I don't care that they effing have weapons," Trump said, according to Hutchinson. "They're not here to hurt me. Let them in, take the mags (magnetometers) away." Trump noted they could march to the Capitol afterward.
Instead, he was more concerned that the crowd wouldn't look as big as he wanted it to in pictures and was firing them up, encouraging them to go to the Capitol after his speech.
-- Trump resisted calls to tamp down the violence, and Hutchinson quotes Meadows saying Trump thought Vice President Mike Pence deserved to be hanged.
"He doesn't want to do anything," Meadows said of Trump, per Hutchinson. "These are his people."
At another point, Hutchinson said she overheard Meadows telling Cipollone, who was urgently telling Meadows about the violence and that they even are chanting to hang Pence, "You heard him, Pat. He thinks he deserves it. He doesn't think they're doing anything wrong."
There's nothing explicit so far of people testifying that Trump said he wanted supporters to violently storm the Capitol, but there are lots of bread crumbs.
3. White House lawyer was worried about legal exposure for Trump and the White House.
With Trump pushing hard to be allowed to go to the Capitol with his supporters, as many White House aides testified, Cippolone was concerned that he and others at the White House could be charged with crimes if Trump did go.
His message to Hutchinson and Meadows when it came to Trump wanting to go to the Capitol: make sure it doesn't happen.
"We are going to get charged with every crime imaginable if that happens," Cippolone said, per Hutchinson.
She noted that Cippolone said it would look like Trump was inciting a riot and there could be charges related to obstruction of Congress and conspiracy to defraud the United States because of blocking the counting of electoral votes.
The committee also revealed on Tuesday that the potential crimes committed weren't just in the past. Toward the end of the hearing, Vice Chair Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., warned of potential witness tampering.
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