WASHINGTON (AP) — A former national security official in the Trump White House, Matt Pottinger, and a former press aide, Sarah Matthews, will be the key witnesses at a prime-time hearing of the Jan. 6 committee.

Both Pottinger and Matthews resigned from the White House the day that supporters of President Donald Trump attacked the U.S. Capitol.

Along with the former assistant to Trump’s chief of staff, Cassidy Hutchinson, they are the only Trump White House insiders to testify publicly.

The House committee hearing Thursday night is expected to focus on what Trump did — and did not do — as his supporters swarmed the Capitol.

Earlier Story

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee aims to make the case in its final hearing Thursday night that Donald Trump’s lies about a stolen election fueled the grisly Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol.

The panel will delve into 187 minutes in which it says Trump did nothing to stop the violence but instead “gleefully” watched on television.

The hearing will feature testimony from two former White House aides and will show outtakes of a Jan. 7 video that aides pleaded for Trump to make as a message of national healing for the country.

The new footage will show how Trump struggled to condemn the mob of his supporters.

Original Story

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee is headed back to prime time for its eighth hearing.

It might be the final time this summer that lawmakers lay out evidence about the U.S. Capitol insurrection and President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat.

Thursday’s night’s hearing is expected to focus on what Trump was doing in the White House as the violence unfolded.

Republican congressman and committee member Adam Kinzinger says he expects the hearing will “open people’s eyes in a big way.”

This will be the panel’s second prime-time hearing.

The first was watched by more than 20 million people.