January 6 prime time hearing: What to watch as panel probes Trump's actions during attack

WASHINGTON - The House Jan. 6 committee is headed back to 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.Thursday’s hearing is expected to focus on what Trump was doing in the White House as the violence unfolded on Jan.

6, 2021. Rep. Adam 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."This will be the panel’s second hearing in prime time.

The first, on June 9, was watched by more than 20 million people.RELATED: The Capitol Riot evidence video: A harrowing American moment, repackaged for prime timeWhat to watch for in Thursday’s hearing:Committee members have said the hearing will be an in-depth look at what Trump was doing in the White House that day as hundreds of his supporters violently pushed past police and broke into the building.The panel has already revealed some of the Trump evidence in previous hearings, showing clips of multiple White House aides who tried to pressure the president to act, or to publicly call on the rioters to leave, as he watched television in a West Wing dining room.But there are still questions about what the president was doing, especially because official White House records of Trump’s phone calls included an eight-hour gap, from a little after 11 that morning to about 7 that evening.The committee has tried to fill in that gap with witness interviews and other sources, such as subpoenaing private phone records.