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Two former White House aides are expected to testify at the House Jan. 6 committee's prime-time hearing Thursday as the panel examines what Donald Trump was doing as his supporters broke into the Capitol, according to a person familiar with the plans.Matthew Pottinger, former deputy national security adviser, and Sarah Matthews, a former press aide, are expected to testify, according to the person, who was not authorized to publicly discuss the matter and requested anonymity. Both Pottinger and Matthews resigned immediately after the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection that interrupted the congressional certification of President Joe Biden's victory.The two witnesses will add to the committee's narrative in its eighth, and possibly final, hearing this summer. The prime-time hearing will detail what Trump did — or did not do — during several hours that day as his supporters beat police officers and broke into the Capitol.Previous hearings have detailed chaos in the White House and aides and outsiders were begging the president to tell the rioters to leave. But he waited more than three hours to do so, and there are still many unanswered questions about what exactly he was doing and saying as the violence unfolded.A spokesperson for the committee declined to comment. CNN was the first to report the identity of Thursday’s witnesses.Lawmakers on the nine-member panel have said the hearing will offer the most compelling evidence yet of Trump’s “dereliction of duty" that day, with witnesses detailing his failure to stem the angry mob.“We have filled in the blanks,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., a member of the House committee investigating the riot who will help lead Thursday’s session, said Sunday. "This is going to open people’s eyes in a big way.”“The president didn’t do very much but gleefully watch television during this timeframe,” he added.Throughout its yearlong investigation, the panel has uncovered several details regarding what the former president was doing as a mob of rioters breached the Capitol complex. Testimony and documents revealed that those closest to Trump, including his allies in Congress, Fox News anchors and even his own children, tried to persuade him to call off the mob or put out a statement calling for the rioters to go home.At one point, according to testimony, Ivanka Trump went to her father to plead with him personally when those around him had failed to get through. All those efforts were unsuccessful.Thursday’s hearing will be the first in the prime-time slot since the June 9 debut that was viewed by an estimated 20 million people.The hearing comes nearly one week after committee members received a closed briefing from the watchdog for the Department of Homeland Security after it was discovered that the Secret Service had deleted text messages sent and received around Jan. 6. Shortly after, the committee subpoenaed the agency, seeking all relevant electronic communication from agents around the time of the attack. The deadline for the Secret Service to respond is Tuesday.Committee member Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., told The Associated Press on Monday that the Secret Service informed them it will turn over records within the requirements of the subpoena.

The House Jan. 6 committee is back in prime time for its eighth hearing — potentially the final time this summer that lawmakers will lay out evidence about the U.S. Capitol insurrection and President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat.Warning: The above video is live and may be graphic in nature. Viewer discretion is advised.Thursday's hearing focuses on what Trump was doing in the White House as the violence unfolded on Jan. 6, 2021. Rep. begun Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican who is one of two members leading the hearing, said he expects it will "open people's eyes in a big way."Check for live, time-stamped updates from the hearing below:10:10 p.m. ETAn unnamed White House employee disclosed former President Donald Trump's final words to them on Jan. 6, 2021, before Trump retired to his residence for the night.According to the employee, Trump's last comment was “Mike Pence let me down,” before going to his room.“President Trump said nothing to the employee about the attack. He said only, ‘Mike Pence let me down,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., a select committee member, said during the hearing.9:50 p.m. ETFormer President Donald Trump's well-known video calling for rioters to "go home," and leave the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was unscripted, according to witnesses.Trump's former personal assistant Nicholas Luna said in a video testimony shown during Thursday's hearing that Trump disregarded a written statement that was provided to him, opting to go "off the cuff."Going off the cuff, however, led to Trump using certain phrases in the video that did not sit well with many administration members, including former Trump deputy press secretary Sara Matthews, who is testifying before the committee Thursday night."I was struck by the fact that he chose to begin the video by pushing the lie that there was a stolen election. And as the video went on, I felt a small sense of relief because he finally told these people to go home, but that was immediately followed up by him saying, 'We love you. You're very special.' And that was disturbing to me because he didn't distinguish between those that peacefully attended his speech earlier that day and those that we watched cause violence at the Capitol," Matthews said. Matthews said that following the video's release, she decided she had to resign because she could not defend the president's message. Video below: Matthews testified that Ivanka Trump offered to include 'stay peaceful' in message to rioters 9:40 p.m. ETThe Jan. 6 House select committee showcased a series of text messages from Donald Trump Jr., the former president's son, and Fox News personality Sean Hannity urging former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to convince former President Donald Trump to call for an end to the violence at the Capitol."He's got to condemn this (expletive). Asap. The capitol police tweet is not enough," Trump Jr. told Meadows via text on Jan. 6, 2021. "This his (sic) one you go to the mattresses on. They will try to (expletive) his entire legacy on this if it gets worse."Hannity struck a similar tone in his text exchange as well, "Can he make a statement. I saw the tweet. Ask people to peacefully leave the capital (sic)."9:25 p.m. ETThe Jan. 6 House select committee's prime-time hearing has returned from recess.9:10 p.m. ETThe hearing has gone into recess. It is expected to resume in 10 minutes.9:00 p.m. ETWhile former President Donald Trump sat in the White House's private dining room during the Capitol riot, he made two calls of which the select committee is aware.At 1:39 p.m. ET and 2:03 p.m. ET, Trump spoke to Rudy Giuliani, according to Giuliani’s call logs obtained by the committee. It is not known what the two discussed.Additionally, former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany testified in a closed-door interview that Trump also sought to contact a list of senators. “He wanted a list of the senators, and I left him at that point,” McEnany said in a video deposition, which played during Thursday's hearing.8:55 p.m. ETAn unidentified national security official told the select committee that former Vice President Mike Pence's security was so concerned for their safety inside the Capitol as the rioters stormed the building that they "were starting to fear for their own lives."The witness said that it appeared the agents were realizing they were running out of options and may have considered using lethal force, adding that "there were calls to say goodbye to family members."Video below: Members of VP's security detail feared for their lives as rioters entered the capitol, official says8:50 p.m. ETAccording to several witnesses, former President Donald Trump did not place a single call to any of his law enforcement or national security officials as the U.S. Capitol attack was unfolding."We have confirmed in numerous interviews with senior law enforcement and military leaders, Vice President Pence's staff and D.C. government officials — none of them, not one, heard from President Trump that day. He did not call to issue orders. He did not call to offer assistance," Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., a member of the select committee, said.Among those who testified to this include White House counsel Pat Cipollone, Trump’s body man Nick Luna, Keith Kellogg, Pence’s national security adviser who was also with Trump that day, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley.Video below: Trump WH counsel Cipollone meets with Jan. 6 panel8:35 p.m. ETA national security official who was working in the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, told the select committee that the Trump administration “was aware of multiple reports of weapons in the crowd that morning.”The identity of the official was not released for their protection, the committee said.“To be completely honest, we were all in a state of shock,” the official said. “We all knew what that implicated and what that meant, that this was no longer a rally, that this was going to move to something else if he physically walked to the Capitol. I don’t know if you want to use the word — insurrection, coup, whatever — we all knew that this would move from a normal democratic, you know, public event into something else.”Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., a member of the committee, added that the former president was made aware of the violence at the Capitol no later than 15 minutes after Trump had left the stage from his speech.According to Luria, Trump spent most of the afternoon on Jan. 6, 2021, in the White House's presidential dining room. Though, the select committee has yet to uncover photographic evidence because the chief White House photographer told the House panel that she was specifically told, "no photographs" during those hours after she expressed an interest in documenting the historic events unfolding that day. "From 1:25 until after 4:00, the president stayed in his dining room," Luria said, noting that he was watching Fox News on a television located in the room nearly the entire time, according to witness testimony. 8:20 p.m. ETRep. Liz Cheney, R-Wy., the vice chair of the select committee, is introducing and swearing in the two witnesses for tonight's prime-time hearing; former Trump deputy national security adviser Matthew Pottinger and former Trump deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews. 8:15 p.m. ETRep. Liz Cheney, R-Wy., the vice chair of the select committee, reiterates tonight that the panel has uncovered a plethora of new evidence during the course of the public hearings."In the course of these hearings, we have received new evidence, and new witnesses have bravely stepped forward. Efforts to litigate and overcome immunity and executive privilege claims have been successful and those continue. Doors have opened, new subpoenas have been issued, and the dam has begun to break," Cheney said.8:10 p.m. ETDuring his opening statement, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the select committee's chairman, said the panel will take August to gather more evidence and conduct more interviews, and they will return in September to hold more public hearings.Video below: Rep. Bennie Thompson: Donald Trump 'could not be moved'"Our investigation goes forward. We continue to receive new information every day. We continue to hear from witnesses. We will reconvene in September to continue laying out our findings to the American people," he said.Thompson is leading tonight's hearing remotely after testing positive for COVID-19 earlier in the week. Thompson said he is fully vaccinated and experiencing mild symptoms.8:00 p.m. ETThe Jan. 6 House panel has begun its prime-time hearing.7:55 p.m. ETThe Jan. 6 House select committee's eighth and final scheduled hearing is expected to begin in five minutes.Tonight's prime-time event will dive deep into former President Donald Trump's movements and actions as the violence unfolded at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

WASHINGTON —

The House Jan. 6 committee is back in prime time for its eighth hearing — potentially the final time this summer that lawmakers will lay out evidence about the U.S. Capitol insurrection and President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn his 2020 election defeat.

Warning: The above video is live and may be graphic in nature. Viewer discretion is advised.

Thursday's hearing focuses on what Trump was doing in the White House as the violence unfolded on Jan. 6, 2021. Rep. begun Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican who is one of two members leading the hearing, said he expects it will "open people's eyes in a big way."

Check for live, time-stamped updates from the hearing below:

9:50 p.m. ET

Former President Donald Trump's well-known video calling for rioters to "go home," and leave the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, was unscripted, according to witnesses.

Trump's former personal assistant Nicholas Luna said in a video testimony shown during Thursday's hearing that Trump disregarded a written statement that was provided to him, opting to go "off the cuff."

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Going off the cuff, however, led to Trump using certain phrases in the video that did not sit well with many administration members, including former Trump deputy press secretary Sara Matthews, who is testifying before the committee Thursday night.

"I was struck by the fact that he chose to begin the video by pushing the lie that there was a stolen election. And as the video went on, I felt a small sense of relief because he finally told these people to go home, but that was immediately followed up by him saying, 'We love you. You're very special.' And that was disturbing to me because he didn't distinguish between those that peacefully attended his speech earlier that day and those that we watched cause violence at the Capitol," Matthews said.

Matthews said that following the video's release, she decided she had to resign because she could not defend the president's message.

Video below: Matthews testified that Ivanka Trump offered to include 'stay peaceful' in message to rioters

9:40 p.m. ET

The Jan. 6 House select committee showcased a series of text messages from Donald Trump Jr., the former president's son, and Fox News personality Sean Hannity urging former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to convince former President Donald Trump to call for an end to the violence at the Capitol.

"He's got to condemn this (expletive). Asap. The capitol police tweet is not enough," Trump Jr. told Meadows via text on Jan. 6, 2021. "This his (sic) one you go to the mattresses on. They will try to (expletive) his entire legacy on this if it gets worse."

Hannity struck a similar tone in his text exchange as well, "Can he make a statement. I saw the tweet. Ask people to peacefully leave the capital (sic)."

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9:25 p.m. ET

The Jan. 6 House select committee's prime-time hearing has returned from recess.

9:10 p.m. ET

The hearing has gone into recess. It is expected to resume in 10 minutes.

9:00 p.m. ET

While former President Donald Trump sat in the White House's private dining room during the Capitol riot, he made two calls of which the select committee is aware.

At 1:39 p.m. ET and 2:03 p.m. ET, Trump spoke to Rudy Giuliani, according to Giuliani’s call logs obtained by the committee. It is not known what the two discussed.

Additionally, former White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany testified in a closed-door interview that Trump also sought to contact a list of senators.

“He wanted a list of the senators, and I left him at that point,” McEnany said in a video deposition, which played during Thursday's hearing.

8:55 p.m. ET

An unidentified national security official told the select committee that former Vice President Mike Pence's security was so concerned for their safety inside the Capitol as the rioters stormed the building that they "were starting to fear for their own lives."

The witness said that it appeared the agents were realizing they were running out of options and may have considered using lethal force, adding that "there were calls to say goodbye to family members."

Video below: Members of VP's security detail feared for their lives as rioters entered the capitol, official says

8:50 p.m. ET

According to several witnesses, former President Donald Trump did not place a single call to any of his law enforcement or national security officials as the U.S. Capitol attack was unfolding.

"We have confirmed in numerous interviews with senior law enforcement and military leaders, Vice President Pence's staff and D.C. government officials — none of them, not one, heard from President Trump that day. He did not call to issue orders. He did not call to offer assistance," Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., a member of the select committee, said.

Among those who testified to this include White House counsel Pat Cipollone, Trump’s body man Nick Luna, Keith Kellogg, Pence’s national security adviser who was also with Trump that day, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley.

Video below: Trump WH counsel Cipollone meets with Jan. 6 panel

8:35 p.m. ET

A national security official who was working in the White House on Jan. 6, 2021, told the select committee that the Trump administration “was aware of multiple reports of weapons in the crowd that morning.”

The identity of the official was not released for their protection, the committee said.

“To be completely honest, we were all in a state of shock,” the official said. “We all knew what that implicated and what that meant, that this was no longer a rally, that this was going to move to something else if he physically walked to the Capitol. I don’t know if you want to use the word — insurrection, coup, whatever — we all knew that this would move from a normal democratic, you know, public event into something else.”

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Rep. Elaine Luria, D-Va., a member of the committee, added that the former president was made aware of the violence at the Capitol no later than 15 minutes after Trump had left the stage from his speech.

According to Luria, Trump spent most of the afternoon on Jan. 6, 2021, in the White House's presidential dining room. Though, the select committee has yet to uncover photographic evidence because the chief White House photographer told the House panel that she was specifically told, "no photographs" during those hours after she expressed an interest in documenting the historic events unfolding that day.

"From 1:25 until after 4:00, the president stayed in his dining room," Luria said, noting that he was watching Fox News on a television located in the room nearly the entire time, according to witness testimony.

8:20 p.m. ET

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wy., the vice chair of the select committee, is introducing and swearing in the two witnesses for tonight's prime-time hearing; former Trump deputy national security adviser Matthew Pottinger and former Trump deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews.

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8:15 p.m. ET

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wy., the vice chair of the select committee, reiterates tonight that the panel has uncovered a plethora of new evidence during the course of the public hearings.

"In the course of these hearings, we have received new evidence, and new witnesses have bravely stepped forward. Efforts to litigate and overcome immunity and executive privilege claims have been successful and those continue. Doors have opened, new subpoenas have been issued, and the dam has begun to break," Cheney said.

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8:10 p.m. ET

During his opening statement, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the select committee's chairman, said the panel will take August to gather more evidence and conduct more interviews, and they will return in September to hold more public hearings.

Video below: Rep. Bennie Thompson: Donald Trump 'could not be moved'

"Our investigation goes forward. We continue to receive new information every day. We continue to hear from witnesses. We will reconvene in September to continue laying out our findings to the American people," he said.

Thompson is leading tonight's hearing remotely after testing positive for COVID-19 earlier in the week. Thompson said he is fully vaccinated and experiencing mild symptoms.

Tasos Katopodis

8:00 p.m. ET

The Jan. 6 House panel has begun its prime-time hearing.

7:55 p.m. ET

The Jan. 6 House select committee's eighth and final scheduled hearing is expected to begin in five minutes.

Tonight's prime-time event will dive deep into former President Donald Trump's movements and actions as the violence unfolded at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.