Former White House officials testify at prime-time hearing on Capitol riot

STORY: Former White House officials testify at prime-time hearing on Capitol riot DATELINE: July 22, 2022 LENGTH: 00:03:01 LOCATION: Washington D.C. CATEGORY: POLITICS SHOTLIST: 1. various of the hearing 2. SOUNDBITE (English): SARAH MATTHEWS, Former White House deputy press secretary 3. various of the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021 STORYLINE: A pair of former White House officials appeared in front of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol at a prime-time hearing Thursday night. Former U.S. deputy national security adviser Matthew Pottinger and former White House deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews provided testimony as investigators on the panel detailed what then President Donald Trump did throughout the violent event. SOUNDBITE (English): SARAH MATTHEWS, Former White House deputy press secretary "I thought that Jan. 6, 2021, was one of the darkest days in our nation's history and President Trump was treating it as a celebratory occasion." The c

Senate Committee Hearings - Washington

Senate Committee Hearings - Washington

Matt Pottinger, Former Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor, appears before a Senate Committee on Armed Services hearing to examine United States' strategic competition with China, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, Tuesday, June 8, 2021. Photo by Rod Lamkey/CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

Senate Committee Hearings - Washington

Senate Committee Hearings - Washington

Matt Pottinger, Former Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor, appears before a Senate Committee on Armed Services hearing to examine United States' strategic competition with China, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, Tuesday, June 8, 2021. Photo by Rod Lamkey/CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

Senate Committee Hearings - Washington

Senate Committee Hearings - Washington

Matt Pottinger, Former Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor, appears before a Senate Committee on Armed Services hearing to examine United States' strategic competition with China, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, Tuesday, June 8, 2021. Photo by Rod Lamkey/CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

Senate Committee Hearings - Washington

Senate Committee Hearings - Washington

Matt Pottinger, Former Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor, appears before a Senate Committee on Armed Services hearing to examine United States' strategic competition with China, in the Dirksen Senate Office Building in Washington, DC, Tuesday, June 8, 2021. Photo by Rod Lamkey/CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

Trump to raise abduction issue to N. Korea, U.S. reassures Japan

Trump to raise abduction issue to N. Korea, U.S. reassures Japan

Katsunobu Kato, Japanese minister in charge of the abduction issue, meets the press in Washington on May 4, 2018 after holding separate talks with Matt Pottinger, senior director for Asia at the U.S. National Security Council, and Thomas Shannon, U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo