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Laura Coates Live

Top NSC official to testify about January 6 - should Trump be worried?

Laura Coates Live

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3.9 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The former Deputy National Security Council Adviser who resigned following Trump’s tweet attacking Mike Pence as the Capitol riot unfolded is expected to testify in what could be the January 6 Committee’s final public hearing on Thursday. What insights into Trump’s three-hour silence as the riot raged will straight-talking close insider Matt Pottinger reveal? The CNN Tonight panel discusses.Plus, the report on the Uvalde massacre finds “systematic failures” in the police response, showing nearly 400 officers were at the scene with no one taking charge, and that “egregiously poor decisions" were made. And, in the aftermath of Roe v. Wade, autoimmune patients struggle to access critical medications because they can also be used to end a pregnancy. Disability rights advocate Sarah Blahovec is one of the patients at risk and tells Laura about the impact it will have on the treatment of her Crohn's disease.Hosted by Laura Coates. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm Laura Cotes and this is CNN Tonight.

0:04.4

First on CNN, we now know the name of a new January 6 witness, what could be the final

0:10.0

January 6 committee public hearing that set for prime time Thursday night.

0:14.8

We're learning tonight that that person is Matthew Pottinger and he is at this testify

0:18.8

apparently this coming Thursday.

0:21.4

He served on then President Trump's National Security Council, but his service came to an

0:26.3

abrupt end when he decided to resign in the middle of the riot.

0:29.9

One of my staff brought me a printout of a tweet by the president and the tweet said something

0:43.2

to the effect that Mike Pence, the vice president, didn't have the courage to do what should

0:50.3

have been done.

0:52.9

I read that tweet and made a decision at that moment to resign.

1:03.5

That's where I knew that I was leaving that day once I read that tweet.

1:08.6

Now a reminder of what that tweet said, he wrote in part, quote, Mike Pence didn't have

1:13.4

the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution.

1:18.6

When Trump was out of sight from the public during the riot, he had time to slam his own

1:24.0

VP on Twitter and waited nothing to lower the temperature anywhere across this country,

1:29.3

let alone at the Capitol.

1:31.1

And for all the hours and hours and hours of video that we have seen from January 6th,

1:36.3

from the rioters, storming up the steps to the evacuation of the vice president, we still

1:41.2

didn't actually have any visual evidence of what the commander-in-chief was doing that

1:45.3

day.

1:46.3

And mine gets over three hours, 187 minutes worth of time.

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