Grand jury declines to indict former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson

🗞️ Story file #1045

Grand jury declines to indict former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson

Oct 27, 7 PM ET to Oct 28, 4 AM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean

26outlets carried it
🫏15 · 3 · 7🐘left · center · right
9 hourson the front pages
26front pages at once, at its peak
27 minof TV captions
2radio newscasts

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 27, 7 PM ETfirst on TV: MSNOW
Oct 27, 7 PM ETfirst on a front page: The Guardian
Oct 28, 12 AM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
Oct 28, 2 AM ETpeak: on 26 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 27, 7 PM to Oct 28, 4 AM ET (peak 26), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right · not rated

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

📡 wire copy: 3 outlets ran the AP, Reuters headline nearly word for word (PBS NewsHour, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Sun)

📌 linked by aggregators: Google News Political Wire

💬 quoted: “Huge embarrassment”

✏️ 3 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

ABC News (2 wordings): “DOJ fails to get indictment against ex-Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson: Sources” → “Related: DOJ fails to get indictment against ex-Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson: Sources”
AP (2 wordings): “Grand jury refuses to indict ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, AP sources say” → “Grand jury refuses to indict former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, AP sources say - AP News”
Yahoo News (2 wordings): “Federal prosecutors fail to get grand jury indictment against Cassidy Hutchinson” → “Grand jury won't indict Cassidy Hutchinson over her testimony about Jan. 6 riot”

Every outlet's first headline (26), left to right by AllSides rating

HuffPost Grand Jury Declines To Indict Former White House Aide Over Jan. 6 Testimony Oct 27, 11 PM ET
Raw Story Trump's DOJ ridiculed after grand jury rejects ex-aide's indictment: 'Huge embarrassment' Oct 27, 8 PM ET
The Guardian Grand jury declines to indict ex-White House staffer who testified about January 6 Oct 27, 7 PM ET
ABC News DOJ fails to get indictment against ex-Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson: Sources Oct 27, 7 PM ET
AP Grand jury refuses to indict ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, AP sources say Oct 27, 7 PM ET
Axios DOJ fails to indict Cassidy Hutchinson, a key Jan. 6 witness Oct 27, 7 PM ET
CBS News Grand jury won't indict Cassidy Hutchinson over Jan. 6 testimony Oct 27, 6 PM ET
CNBC Grand jury rejects DOJ bid to indict ex-Trump WH aide Cassidy Hutchinson: Reports Oct 27, 10 PM ET
CNN Justice Department fails to indict former White House aide over her testimony about Trump and Jan. 6, sources say Oct 27, 7 PM ET
Mediaite Grand Jury Fails to Indict Cassidy Hutchinson At Trump DOJ Urging Oct 27, 7 PM ET
NBC News BREAKING: Grand jury declines to indict White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, U.S. official says Oct 27, 7 PM ET
New York Times Grand Jury Declines to Bring Charges Against Cassidy Hutchinson Oct 27, 7 PM ET
PBS NewsHour Grand jury refuses to indict former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, AP sources say Oct 27, 7 PM ET
The Washington Post Grand jury declines to indict Cassidy Hutchinson over Jan. 6 testimony Oct 27, 6 PM ET
Yahoo News Federal prosecutors fail to get grand jury indictment against Cassidy Hutchinson Oct 27, 7 PM ET
Reuters Grand jury declines to indict former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson, source says Oct 28, 2 AM ET
The Hill Federal grand jury declines to indict Cassidy Hutchinson Oct 27, 11 PM ET
WSJ Grand Jury Declines to Indict Former White House Aide Cassidy Hutchinson Oct 27, 7 PM ET
Just the News Justice Department fails to secure grand jury indictment against Cassidy Hutchinson Oct 27, 8 PM ET
Washington Examiner Grand jury declines to indict ex-Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson over Jan. 6 testimony Oct 27, 8 PM ET
Breitbart Grand Jury Declines to Indict Cassidy Hutchinson for Her Jan. 6 Testimony Oct 27, 11 PM ET
IJR Grand Jury Reportedly Rejects Hutchinson Indictment Bid Oct 27, 10 PM ET
New York Post Grand jury doesn’t indict ex-White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson: says AP Oct 27, 11 PM ET
Newsmax Grand Jury Rejects DOJ Bid to Indict Hutchinson Oct 27, 7 PM ET
The Gateway Pundit BREAKING: Grand Jury REJECTS Justice Department’s Effort to Indict January 6 Star Witness Cassidy Hutchinson Oct 27, 7 PM ET
The Washington Sun AP Sources: Grand Jury Refuses to Indict Ex-White House Aide Cassidy Hutchinson Oct 27, 7 PM ET

TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it

📺 On TV

CNN20 min

MSNOW8 min

SOURCES: DOJ FAILS TO INDICT FORMER WH AIDE CASSIDY HUTCHINSON CNN, 15 min
GRAND JURY DECLINES TO INDICT CASSIDY HUTCHINSON MSNOW, 3 min
SOURCES: GRAND JURY REJECTS JUSTICE DEPT. EFFORT TO INDICT FORMER WH AIDE CASSIDY HUTCHINSON CNN, 3 min
DOJ FAILS TO CHARGE AIDE TRUMP CLAIMED IS A "TOTAL PHONY" MSNOW, 2 min
SOURCES: DOJ FAILS TO SECURE GRAND JURY INDICTMENT OF FORMER WH. AIDE CASSIDY HUTCHINSON OVER HER TESTIMONY ABOUT TRUMP & JAN. 6 CNN, 2 min
TRUMP DOJ FAILS TO INDICT FMR. WHITE HOUSE AIDE CASSIDY HUTCHINSON MSNOW, 86 s
GRAND JURY DECLINES TO BRING CHARGES AGAINST HUTCHINSON MSNOW, 38 s
TRUMP DOJ FAILS TO INDICT FORMER WHITE HOUSE AIDE CASSIDY HUTCHINSON MSNOW, 28 s

📻 On the radio

NPR News Now, Oct 28, 1:09 AM ET: story 4 of 6
NPR News Now, Oct 28, 12:09 AM ET: story 2 of 6

what people online made of it

🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.

🗣️ names in it: Justice Department Cassidy Hutchinson White House Grand jury

what the fact-checkers looked into

🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.

the running story it belongs to

🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.