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Grand jury declines to indict Cassidy Hutchinson, MS NOW reports

On Deadline: White House, Carol Leonnig questions why the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division brought the case, while Miles Taylor links it to other recent indictments that grand juries have rejected.

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Why this story? One of MS NOW's most watched videos since yesterday, with 575,543 views.

BREAKING: Trump Justice Department FAILS to secure indictment against former aide Cassidy Hutchinson

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0:00Nicolle Wallace reports that a grand jury in Washington has declined to indict Cassidy Hutchinson.
0:36Carol Leonnig says the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division sought the indictment over alleged false statements.
2:00Wallace asks why Harmeet Dhillon's division, not the D.C. U.S. attorney's office, pursued the case.
2:15Leonnig describes internal resistance and an unusual charge involving deprivation of constitutional rights.
4:31Miles Taylor connects the decision to other recent grand jury refusals involving critics or political opponents.
6:55The clip ends with Rachel Maddow promoting MS NOW's membership.

A federal grand jury in Washington has declined to indict Cassidy Hutchinson, the former Trump White House aide, Nicolle Wallace announced as breaking news on MS NOW's Deadline: White House. According to the program, the Justice Department had sought charges over alleged false statements to Congress.

Hutchinson was an assistant to Mark Meadows, chief of staff during Donald Trump's first term. She became widely known in 2022, when she testified publicly before the House committee investigating the January 6 attack on the Capitol.

Carol Leonnig, MS NOW's senior investigative reporter, said the department's Civil Rights Division had "tried and failed" to secure the indictment. Wallace asked why the division, led by Harmeet Dhillon, had pursued the matter instead of the U.S. attorney's office in Washington. "It is a curiosity that the Civil Rights Division is pursuing this at all," Leonnig said. She described resistance inside the U.S. attorney's office and said the division had attempted an unusual charge involving the deprivation of constitutional rights.

Leonnig noted that prosecutors usually find grand juries easy to persuade. In this case and similar ones, she said, "grand juries are saying, we don't buy it."

Miles Taylor, a former chief of staff at the Department of Homeland Security, placed the decision alongside other recent cases in which grand juries refused indictments sought against critics or political opponents. He called the department's actions politicized. "Ordinary Americans are saying, enough," he said.

The segment drew about 575,000 views within hours of its release. In roughly six hours, it also received more comments than the channel's videos usually receive in a full first day. MS NOW later returned to the story with a Lawrence O'Donnell segment, which argues that the decision is the biggest setback yet for what he calls Trump's "Revenge Department."

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