WASHINGTON - The House panel investigating the Capitol insurrection will hear testimony Tuesday from Cassidy Hutchinson, a top aide in Donald Trump's White House who is a vital witness in the sweeping investigation into the Jan.
6, 2021 attack, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press.Hutchinson, a special assistant and aide to Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, has already provided a trove of information to the committee and its investigators and sat for multiple interviews behind closed doors.In brief excerpts of testimony revealed in court filings, Hutchinson told the committee she was in the room for White House meetings where challenges to the election were debated and discussed, including with Republican lawmakers.The House panel has not explained why it abruptly scheduled the 1 p.m.
hearing as lawmakers were away from Washington on a two-week recess. The committee had said last week that there would be no more hearings until July.A video of Cassidy Hutchinson, aide to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, appears onscreen during the fifth hearing by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol in the Cannon House Office Building Hutchinson previously told the committee that Meadows had been advised of intelligence reports showing the potential for violence on Jan.