I'm Laura Cotes and this is CNN Tonight.

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

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

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

apparently this coming Thursday.

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

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

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

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

have been done.

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

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

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

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

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

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

let alone at the Capitol.

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

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

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

day.

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

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