WEBVTT 00:01.884 --> 00:03.421 DISAPPOINTED. 00:03.432 --> 00:08.192 >> PRESIDENT TRUMP DID NOT TRY 00:08.193 --> 00:10.420 TO CALL HIS THOUSANDS OF 00:10.431 --> 00:12.072 DISAPPOINTED SUPPORTERS. 00:12.083 --> 00:14.310 INSTEAD, ALMOST THE SAME MOMENT 00:14.321 --> 00:16.481 VIOLENCE WAS GETTING COMPLETELY 00:16.492 --> 00:20.142 OUT OF HAND, DONALD TRUMP SAID 00:20.176 --> 00:21.954 AT 2:24 TWEET. 00:21.965 --> 00:23.732 PRESIDENT SAID, MIKE PENCE 00:23.766 --> 00:25.405 DIDN’T HAVE THE COURAGE TO DO 00:25.407 --> 00:27.294 WHAT’S SHOULD HAVE BEEN DONE TO 00:27.305 --> 00:28.499 PROTECT THEIR COUNTRY AND OUR 00:28.510 --> 00:29.248 CONSTITUTION. 00:29.259 --> 00:31.037 DESPITE KNOWING THE CAPITOL HAD 00:31.048 --> 00:33.464 BEEN BREACH AND THE BOMB WAS IN 00:33.475 --> 00:35.034 THE BUILDING, PRESIDENT TRUMP 00:35.068 --> 00:36.976 CALLED MIKE PENCE A COWARD AND 00:36.987 --> 00:38.807 PLACED ALL THE BLAME ON HIM FOR 00:38.818 --> 00:40.503 NOT STOPPING THE CERTIFICATION. 00:40.514 --> 00:42.940 HE PUT A TARGET ON HIS OWN VICE 00:42.941 --> 00:44.340 PRESIDENTS BACK. 00:44.351 --> 00:46.673 MR. POTTINGER AND MISS MATTHEWS, 00:46.684 --> 00:48.471 WE WILL ASK YOU ABOUT THE 00:48.505 --> 00:49.959 REACTION ABOUT THE 2:24 TWEET 00:49.960 --> 00:50.916 IN REALTIME. 00:50.918 --> 00:52.830 YOU BOTH USE THE SAME IMAGERY 00:52.841 --> 00:53.729 TO DESCRIBE IT. 00:53.740 --> 00:54.855 PRESIDENT TRUMP WAS ADDING FUEL 00:54.888 --> 00:56.734 TO THE FIRE. 00:56.745 --> 00:58.733 MR. POTTINGER, YOU MADE THE 00:58.767 --> 01:00.002 DECISION TO RESIGN AFTER SEEING 01:00.013 --> 01:00.985 THIS TWEET. CAN YOU PLEASE TELL US WHY? 01:00.996 --> 01:04.636 CAN YOU PLEASE TELL US WHY? 01:04.647 --> 01:11.948 >> THAT WAS SHORTLY BEFORE I 01:11.949 --> 01:13.316 GOT OFF -- 01:13.327 --> 01:14.767 OUT OF THE WHITE HOUSE. 01:14.768 --> 01:16.287 I BEGAN TO SEE FOR THE FIRST 01:16.298 --> 01:18.537 TIME THOSE IMAGES ON TV. 01:18.538 --> 01:20.546 THE CHAOS THAT IS UNFOLDING AT 01:20.547 --> 01:21.677 THE CAPITOL. 01:21.688 --> 01:24.663 ONE OF MY AIDES HANDED ME A 01:24.674 --> 01:26.236 SHEET OF PAPER THAT CONTAIN THE 01:26.237 --> 01:30.814 TWEET THAT YOU JUST READ. 01:30.815 --> 01:33.428 I READ IT AND WAS QUITE 01:33.439 --> 01:35.502 DISTURBED BY IT. 01:35.503 --> 01:38.394 I WAS DISTURBED AND WORRIED TO 01:38.396 --> 01:40.699 SEE THAT THE PRESIDENT WAS 01:40.710 --> 01:42.096 ATTACKING VICE PRESIDENT PENCE 01:42.107 --> 01:43.278 FOR DOING HIS CONSTITUTIONAL 01:43.312 --> 01:44.160 DUE 80. 01:44.171 --> 01:47.174 SO, THE TWEET LOOKED TO ME LIKE 01:47.185 --> 01:48.897 THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT WE REALLY 01:48.898 --> 01:51.139 NEEDED AT THAT MOMENT, WHICH 01:51.141 --> 01:53.190 WAS A DE-ESCALATION. 01:53.192 --> 01:55.789 THAT IS WHY I SAID EARLIER THAT 01:55.790 --> 01:57.205 IT LOOKED LIKE FUEL BEING 01:57.216 --> 01:58.986 POURED ON THE FIRE. 01:58.997 --> 02:01.044 SO, THAT WAS THE MOMENT THAT I 02:01.046 --> 02:02.664 DECIDED I WAS GOING TO RESIGN. 02:02.675 --> 02:03.914 THAT WOULD BE MY LAST DAY THE 02:03.949 --> 02:04.888 WHITE HOUSE. 02:04.899 --> 02:07.623 I SIMPLY DID NOT WANT TO BE 02:07.657 --> 02:08.984 ASSOCIATED WITH THE EVENTS THAT 02:08.995 --> 02:10.383 WERE UNFOLDING IN THE CAPITAL. 02:10.416 --> 02:11.670 >> THANK YOU. 02:11.681 --> 02:13.757 MISS MATTHEWS, WHAT WAS YOUR 02:13.768 --> 02:15.845 REACTION TO THE PRESIDENT’S 02:15.856 --> 02:17.561 TWEET ABOUT HANDS? 02:17.572 --> 02:20.473 >> SO, IT WAS OBVIOUS THAT THE 02:20.507 --> 02:22.295 SITUATION AT THE CAPITOL WAS 02:22.296 --> 02:24.238 VIOLENT AND ESCALATING QUICKLY. 02:24.249 --> 02:26.648 SO, I THOUGHT THAT THE TWEET 02:26.649 --> 02:27.950 ABOUT VICE PRESIDENT WAS LAST 02:27.961 --> 02:28.920 THING THAT WAS NEEDED THAT 02:28.922 --> 02:30.268 MOMENT. 02:30.269 --> 02:34.889 AND I THIS WAS GOING TO BE BAD 02:34.900 --> 02:37.165 FOR HIM TO TWEET BECAUSE IT WAS 02:37.176 --> 02:38.199 ESSENTIALLY HIM GIVING THE 02:38.210 --> 02:40.334 GREENLIGHT TO THESE PEOPLE. 02:40.335 --> 02:44.347 TELLING THEM THAT WHAT THEY 02:44.358 --> 02:46.284 WERE DOING, THAT THEY WERE 02:46.295 --> 02:49.081 JUSTIFIED IN THEIR ANGER. 02:49.092 --> 02:50.973 HE SHOULDN’T HAVE BEEN DOING 02:50.984 --> 02:51.543 IT. 02:51.544 --> 02:53.688 HE SHOULD BEEN TELLING THE 02:53.690 --> 02:55.223 PEOPLE TO GO HOME, TO CONTEND 02:55.234 --> 02:56.203 THE VIOLENCE THAT WE ARE 02:56.214 --> 02:57.396 SEEING. 02:57.407 --> 03:00.930 I’M SOMEONE WHO HAS WORKED IN 03:00.963 --> 03:01.846 THE CAMPAIGN. 03:01.847 --> 03:03.952 TRAVELED ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY, 03:03.963 --> 03:05.197 GOING TO COUNTLESS RALLIES WITH 03:05.231 --> 03:05.643 HIM. 03:05.654 --> 03:08.635 I’VE SEEN THE IMPACT THAT HIS 03:08.646 --> 03:10.654 WORDS HAD ON HIS SUPPORTERS. 03:10.688 --> 03:12.794 THEY TRULY LATCH ON TO EVERY 03:12.805 --> 03:14.109 WORD AND EVERY TWEET THAT HE 03:14.120 --> 03:15.612 SAYS. 03:15.646 --> 03:21.020 I THINK THAT IN THAT MOMENT -- 03:21.031 --> 03:23.466 IT WAS HIM POURING GASOLINE ON 03:23.500 --> 03:24.144 THE FIRE. 03:24.155 --> 03:25.549 AND MAKING IT MUCH WORSE. 03:25.550 --> 03:27.597 >> THANK YOU BOTH. 03:27.598 --> 03:28.888 LET’S WATCH WHAT OTHERS ALSO 03:28.899 --> 03:29.957 TOLD US ABOUT THE REACTIONS TO 03:29.968 --> 03:31.781 THIS TWEET. 03:31.815 --> 03:34.728 >> I DON’T REMEMBER WHEN 03:34.729 --> 03:36.376 EXACTLY I HEARD ABOUT THAT 03:36.387 --> 03:36.979 TWEET. 03:37.013 --> 03:39.206 BUT MY REACTION IS THAT IT WAS 03:39.217 --> 03:41.848 A TERRIBLE TWEET. 03:41.859 --> 03:44.059 I DISAGREED WITH THE SENTIMENT. 03:44.094 --> 03:46.064 I THOUGHT IT WAS WRONG. 03:46.075 --> 03:49.067 >> WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION WHEN 03:49.101 --> 03:52.049 YOU SAW THAT TWEET? 03:52.060 --> 03:56.310 >> EXTREMELY UNHELPFUL. 03:56.321 --> 03:59.157 >> WHY? 03:59.191 --> 04:03.823 >> IT WASN’T THE MESSAGE THAT 04:03.834 --> 04:08.871 WE NEEDED THAT TIME? 04:08.906 --> 04:12.031 IT WASN’T GOING TO -- 04:12.042 --> 04:13.854 THE SCENES AT THE CAPITOL ARE 04:13.865 --> 04:14.878 ONLY GETTING WORSE AT THAT 04:14.889 --> 04:15.890 POINT. 04:15.924 --> 04:20.229 THIS IS NOT GOING TO HELP. 04:20.240 --> 04:22.393 >> THERE’S ONLY GOING TO GET? 04:22.427 --> 04:23.720 BARS >> CERTAINLY. 04:23.731 --> 04:26.925 >> WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION TO 04:26.936 --> 04:29.787 THIS TWEET >> AS A STAFFER, IT 04:29.822 --> 04:31.001 WAS TO ALWAYS REPRESENT THE 04:31.012 --> 04:34.544 ADMINISTRATION TO THE BEST OF 04:34.555 --> 04:37.846 MY ABILITY AND TO SHOWCASE THE 04:37.857 --> 04:40.059 THINGS THAT HE HAD DONE FOR THE 04:40.093 --> 04:41.143 COUNTRY. 04:41.154 --> 04:42.246 . 04:42.247 --> 04:44.386 ARE FEELING FRUSTRATED, 04:44.397 --> 04:45.944 DISAPPOINTED. 04:45.955 --> 04:47.767 REALLY, IF PERSONAL. 04:47.778 --> 04:51.923 I WAS REALLY SAD. 04:51.934 --> 04:54.658 AS AN AMERICAN, I WAS 04:54.692 --> 04:57.580 DISGUSTED. 04:57.591 --> 05:01.823 IT WAS UNPATRIOTIC. 05:01.857 --> 05:03.239 IT WAS UN-AMERICAN.