The prime time hearing of the committee investigating last year's Capitol riot has ended after an eventful two-and-a-half hour session. Here are the key takeaways:

• Donald Trump chose not to intervene as a mob of his supporters ransacked the Capitol, the committee alleged
• Despite being made aware of the violence within minutes of his return to the White House, the Democrat-led panel said Trump declined to condemn the rioters and instead sat in his dining room watching the violence unfold
• Almost everyone in Trump's orbit counselled him to call on his supporters to leave the Capitol, but he refused to follow their advice, according to testimony played at the hearing
• Vice-President Mike Pence was in such danger inside the Capitol that members of his security detail made "calls to say goodbye to family members", one witness testified. Around the same time, Trump attacked Pence on Twitter for lacking "the courage" to decertify the election results
• Newly-released outtakes from Trump's speech the day after the Capitol riot show him refusing to say the election was over and rioters broke the law
• The former president criticised the hearings once again, saying the panel should be "embarrassed". Republicans in the Houser of Representatives also criticised the committee

Further public hearings will be held in September as the investigation continues. Our live coverage was brought to you by John Sudworth in the hearing room as well as Sam Cabral, Nadine Yousif and Gareth Evans in Washington.

Today's public hearing has focused almost exclusively on the actions of the former president on the day of the riot.

A short while ago, he provided his reaction on Truth Social, his social media platform, to the evidence produced by the select committee.

"The Unselects are embarrassed by their “performance” tonight!" he wrote.

John Sudworth
In the hearing

Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger is now ramming the committee's case home.

"The evidence you've heard tonight is as sobering as it is straightforward," he says.

President Donald Trump ignored the pleas of his officials and his family, he adds. "It was his supporters attacking the Capitol and he alone could get through to them."

He says it has shown Trump committed "a supreme violation of his oath of office".

Kinzinger finishes with a warning - the anti-democratic forces are still out there, he says.

"The militant, intolerant ideologies; the militias; the alienation and the disaffection; the weird fantasies and disinformation. They're all still out there. Ready to go. That's the elephant in the room."

The committee has just played newly-released outtakes from a Donald Trump speech filmed the day after the Capitol riot.

He is repeatedly seen refusing to read the lines in the script given to him that say "the election is over".

“I don’t want to say the election is over," Trump is seen telling his staff. "I just want to say Congress has certified the results.”

He also refuses to say that rioters broke the law. "I can't say that," he says.

John Sudworth
In the hearing

The Committee has been discussing President Donald Trump's last tweet of 6 January, in which he appeared to justify the violence.

In the tweet, Trump said when an election is stolen "these are the things that happen", and told the crowd to "go home with love and in peace".

There have been tears among some of those watching from the public gallery throughout tonight's hearing. They are upset by the depth and detail of the evidence showing the attempt to subvert the democratic process.

As many critics of the committee have repeatedly noted, it is a panel largely run by Democrats and it does not provide equal time for the points of view held by many Republicans.

That has to do with how the committee came together - after House Republicans refused to co-operate on the creation of a bipartisan probe in the style of the committee that investigated the 9/11 terror attacks.

Nevertheless, the official Twitter account for Republicans in the House of Representatives has been live-tweeting pithy comments on behalf of the party throughout the hearing:

The committee has just said that, when Donald Trump finally delivered a speech asking his supporters to go home, he ignored the remarks that had been prepared for him.

Those prepared remarks included the words: "I am asking you to leave the Capitol Hill region NOW and go home in a peaceful way."

But Trump chose to speak "off the cuff", his former assistant Nicholas Luna says in recorded testimony.

And after one quick take, former White House counsel Eric Herschmann says the "emotionally drained" staff at the White House considered the day to be over.

John Sudworth
In the hearing

The committee is now going through the discussions among President Donald Trump's staff about the need to get him to call the mob off.

The hearing has also heard audio from some of the rioters' own communication channels, reacting with glee to a tweet sent by the president asking them to "support the Capitol police".

They saw the tweet not as a instruction to leave, but as encouragement to continue, the hearing heard.

In the White House, Sarah Matthews, the former deputy press secretary and one of the witnesses, told the hearing that as staff debated what to do, one colleague suggested that it would be wrong to condemn the violence as this would be "handing a win to the media".

In its past three hearings, the committee has relied heavily on the testimony of Pat Cipollone, the former White House counsel who was present for many of the key meetings around the time of the riot.

Cipollone says that he cannot think of anybody in the White House that condoned the violence that was taking place.

He lists several key figures who he says implored Trump to condemn the riot and call for people to stand down.

But he is seen, on the advice of his own counsel at the deposition, refusing to say who in the White House did condone the violence. The committee plays the lengthy moments of silence in which Cipollone looks to his lawyer before declining to go on.

Committee member Adam Kinzinger fills in the silence by saying: "Almost everybody wanted President Trump to instruct the mob to disperse but he refused".

John Sudworth
In the hearing

We just took a short recess, but not before a moment of some hilarity for those watching from the press benches.

The hearing was shown a picture of Republican Senator Josh Hawley, a Donald Trump loyalist, raising his fist in solidarity with the crowd outside the Capitol - a gesture, the committee said, made from the safety of a "protected area".

But the room was then shown closed circuit footage of Hawley inside the breeched building, moving at speed and scuttling across a hallway while looking altogether far less confident - an image greeted with much laughter.

John Sudworth
In the hearing

The committee has been asking the witnesses about their reaction to a tweet - "Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done" - sent by President Donald Trump at 14:24, the moment when the vice-president was pinned down inside the Capitol.

At that time, the building had already been breached and the mob outside were expressing its anger at Pence's refusal to do his president's bidding.

It was the moment, both witnesses said, when they knew they could no longer stay in government.

"[It was] the opposite of what needed to be done", Matthew Pottinger said.

Footage played at the hearing asserts that word "spread like wildfire" that Vice-President Mike Pence had "folded" and "betrayed" Donald Trump supporters.

An unidentified White House security official testifies that, with Pence still inside the Capitol building and in danger of being boxed in by the rioters, members of his security detail "began to fear for their lives".

The official claims there were "a lot of very personal calls on the radio" and "calls to say goodbye to family members".

Nevertheless, as the committee shows, a Trump tweet at that time attacks Pence as a coward who "didn't have the courage" to refuse to certify the 2020 election results.

Trump "put a target on his own vice-president's back", committee member Elaine Luria says.

The committee plays footage from several witnesses.

They each corroborate that Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka was among several key figures close to the president who tried - unsuccessfully - to wrangle him into making a statement condemning the violence.

Then-White House counsel Pat Cipollone says that "it would have been possible" for Trump to address the nation from the press briefing room at any moment during the attack.

Sarah Matthews, one of today's live witnesses, was deputy press secretary at the time.

She testifies that it would have taken the president "less than 60 seconds" to walk to the briefing room and "a matter of minutes" to gather the press corps for a live appearance if he had wanted.

John Sudworth
In the hearing

The committee have been laying out evidence of a glaring silence from President Trump after he returned to the White House - apparently against his will.

They're showing on the committee room screen some images of the White House call log. They show that no calls were made at all during the there hour period of unfolding violence.

Instead, Trump apparently sat in the dining room where - in remarks met by a few chuckles here on the press benches - they said the television was tuned to Fox News.

John Sudworth
In the hearing

The committee has been recapping much of its case made in the previous hearings - that the president, knowing some in the crowd were armed, urged them to march on the Capitol and told them he'd be with them.

They've now played a clip of a police officer, Sgt Mark Robinson, who was regularly a part of President Trump's motorcade.

Robinson supported earlier evidence about the president's intent to override the advice of his security officials by driving, not to the White House, but to join the crowd at the Capitol.

"The President was upset. He was adamant about going," Robinson says.

Committee members say they will detail how the former US president failed to act from inside the White House as the assault on the Capitol took place.

That timeframe - 187 minutes - begins at 13:10 local time, when Donald Trump finished his speech at the Ellipse, a site near the Capitol complex.

It ends at 16:17, when Trump released a video on Twitter urging the protesters to go home.

Representative Adam Kinzinger, one of the two Republicans on the committee, says "the mob was accomplishing President Trump's purpose, so of course he did not intervene".

"He did not fail to act," says Kinzinger. "He chose not to act."

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The two witnesses for today's hearing have just been sworn in.

They are Matthew Pottinger, a former deputy national security adviser to Donald Trump, and Sarah Matthews, who served as Trump's deputy press secretary.

Pottinger and Matthews both resigned in the immediate aftermath of the Capitol riot.

Pottinger, who worked for seven years as a China correspondent for the Wall Street Journal, sat on Trump's National Security Council as its Asia Director, becoming known for his tough stance on China.

He opens his remarks to the committee by noting how proud he was of the administration's China policy.

Fluent in Mandarin, he is also a Marine Corps veteran and former military intelligence officer who served in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Matthews, who identifies herself to the committee as "a lifelong Republican", served as a a spokeswoman for Trump’s re-election campaign before she became an understudy to then White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany.

On the one-year anniversary of the Capitol riot this year, Matthews tweeted that she believed the events were a “coup attempt” and “one of the darkest days in American history”.

“While it might be easier to ignore or whitewash the events of that day for political expediency - if we’re going to be morally consistent - we need to acknowledge these hard truths,” she added.

John Sudworth
In the hearing

Bennie Thompson has been setting out the broad thrust of the committee's case tonight - to show that Donald Trump, having whipped a mob to the point of frenzy, then stood back as the consequences began to unfold and the Capitol came under attack.

Despite pleas from officials and families "he could not be moved", Congressman Thompson said.

Chairman Bennie Thompson says the committee will reconvene in September, signalling that more public hearings are likely.

"Our investigation goes forward, we continue to receive new information every day," he says.

"Doors have opened, new subpoenas have been issued and the dam has begun to break. We have far more evidence to share with the American people and more to gather."

The final scheduled public hearing of the January 6 committee has just begun.

Chairman Bennie Thompson - who has recently tested positive for Covid-19 - gavels in virtually.

We'll bring you live updates throughout the proceedings, and our correspondent John Sudworth is in the room.