By John L. Dorman

Business Insider

July 9, 2022

 

"You sort of get this impression that things had really broken down and Mark Meadows as the chief of staff — which is a critical position, especially in these critical moments — had checked out entirely," he added.

Hutchinson during her June testimony spoke of the exasperation that she felt at Meadows' lack of urgency when the Capitol was being ransacked.

"I start to get frustrated because I sort of felt like I was looking at a bad car accident about to happen where you can't stop it but you want to be able to do something," she said at the time. "I remember thinking in that moment, 'Mark needs to snap out of this and I don't know how to snap him out of this but he needs to care.'"