🗞️ Story file #247
Justice Department seeks indictment of Cassidy Hutchinson
Oct 8, 3 PM ET to Oct 8, 6 PM ET · 1 outlet not rated for lean
- 16outlets carried it
- 🫏8 · 1 · 6🐘left · center · right
- 3 hourson the front pages
- 16front pages at once, at its peak
- 14 minof TV captions
👣 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 8, 3 PM ETfirst on a front page: MSNBC
- Oct 8, 4 PM ETfirst on TV: CNN
- Oct 8, 6 PM ETpeak: on 16 front pages
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
📌 linked by aggregators: Google News Political Wire
💬 quoted: “Star Witness” 2 “star witness”
🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 aide cassidy 🫏 ex-trump aide 🫏 justice department 🐘 jan 6
✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Red State (2 wordings): “Bombshell: DOJ Reportedly Seeking Criminal Indictment of Cassidy Hutchinson Teri Christoph” → “DOJ Bombshell: DOJ Reportedly Seeking Criminal Indictment of Cassidy Hutchinson Teri Christoph”
- Washington Examiner (2 wordings): “DOJ investigating Cassidy Hutchinson over House Jan. 6 Committee testimony” → “DOJ investigates Cassidy Hutchinson over Jan. 6 testimony”
Every outlet's first headline (16), left to right by AllSides rating
Alternet
DOJ seeks grand jury indictment of ex-Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson Oct 8, 2 PM ET
MSNBC
DOJ seeking to indict Cassidy Hutchinson, Punchbowl reports Oct 8, 3 PM ET
Raw Story
DOJ moves to indict star January 6 witness who testified against Trump: report Oct 8, 3 PM ET
The Guardian
DoJ seeks to charge ex-Trump aide who gave key testimony on January 6 attack Oct 8, 4 PM ET
The New Republic
Justice Department Finds Its Newest Target: Cassidy Hutchinson Oct 8, 3 PM ET
CBS News
DOJ trying to indict former Mark Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson Oct 8, 6 PM ET
Mediaite
BREAKING: Trump DOJ Seeking Criminal Indictment for Cassidy Hutchinson, Report Says Oct 8, 2 PM ET
NBC News
Justice Department seeks criminal charge for former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson Oct 8, 3 PM ET
Bloomberg
DOJ Seeking Criminal Indictment of Former White House Aide Oct 8, 5 PM ET
Just the News
DOJ seeks indictment of Cassidy Hutchinson for allegedly lying to Congress: Report Oct 8, 4 PM ET
Washington Examiner
DOJ investigating Cassidy Hutchinson over House Jan. 6 Committee testimony Oct 8, 4 PM ET
New York Post
Grand jury probing Jan. 6 committee ‘star witness’ Cassidy Hutchinson: source Oct 8, 3 PM ET
Red State
Bombshell: DOJ Reportedly Seeking Criminal Indictment of Cassidy Hutchinson Teri Christoph Oct 8, 3 PM ET
The Daily Caller
DOJ Seeking Criminal Indictment Of Cassidy Hutchinson Over Jan. 6 Testimony Oct 8, 2 PM ET
The Gateway Pundit
HERE WE GO: DOJ Moves to Indict January 6 ‘Star Witness’ Cassidy Hutchinson Oct 8, 6 PM ET
Punchbowl News
DOJ seeks indictment of Cassidy Hutchinson premium White House Oct 8, 2 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- REPORT: DOJ SEEKS INDICTMENT OF CASSIDY HUTCHINSON CNN, 9 min
- REPORT: DOJ SEEKS INDICTMENT OF CASSIDY HUTCHINSON. Elie Honig | Former Asst. U.S. Attorney, Southern District of NY CNN, 2 min
- REPORT: DOJ SEEKS FEDERAL INDICTMENT OF FMR TRUMP AIDE & JAN 6 CMTE STAR WITNESS CASSIDY HUTCHINSON CNN, 2 min
- REPORT: DOJ SEEKS INDICTMENT OF CASSIDY HUTCHINSON. Elie Honig | @W Senior Legal Analyst CNN, 38 s
- REPORT: DOJ PRESENTED EVIDENCE TO GRAND JURY ON TUESDAY. AS IT SEEKS TO INDICT FMR TRUMP AIDE CASSIDY HUTCHINSON CNN, 37 s
🧶 Retelling
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: Department of Justice Cassidy Hutchinson White House Punchbowl Donald Trump
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.