Two Trump White House officials expected to testify at prime-time Jan. 6 hearing Thursday
Sarah Matthews and Matthew Pottinger, who both worked in the Trump White house, are expected to testify at the Jan. 6 committee’s high-profile hearing Thursday.
WASHINGTON — Former deputy White House press secretary Sarah Matthews and Matthew Pottinger, a member of the National Security Council during the Trump administration, are expected to testify at the Jan. 6 committee’s high-profile hearing on Thursday, according to a source familiar with the plans.
Both Matthews and Pottinger were among a wave of Trump officials who resigned in the wake of the attack on the Capitol. This would be the first time either witness has testified publicly before the panel.
CNN first reported Pottinger was an expected witness.
Then Deputy National Security Advisor Matthew Pottinger arrives for a Medal of Honor ceremony in the East Room of the White House on Sept. 11, 2020.Drew Angerer / Getty Images fileMembers of the House committee investigating the insurrection have said the prime-time hearing will focus on the three-hour gap between when the attack on the Capitol began and when then-President Donald Trump urged his supporters to leave the building.
At the end of last week’s nearly three-hour hearing, the committee’s vice chair, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., said the panel will present a minute-by-minute account of what occurred on Jan. 6.
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