pottinger resigned in the immediate aftermath of the january 6th attack on the capitol. he will appear alongside former trump white house aide sarah matthews. also today, opening statements are expected in the federal trial of former trump adviser steve bannon for his refusal to cooperate with the january 6 committee. he s charged with two counts of contempt of congress for flouting subpoenas from the committee. the trial is expected to move quickly. and the government s case might even take one day. let s go to cnn s senior crime and justice reporter katelyn polantz. thank you for joining us. let s start with matthew pottinger and these details. obviously he was a pretty big figure in the west wing. he is considered to be have influence in the west wing. that s right, potting was the deputy national security adviser. that s a high-ranking position, he s alongside another person the former white house press secretary sarah matthews. they re both going to be live witnesses
waves. i missed the initial waves. i looked out and saw the entire dance floor submerged. i saw all of our bud vases and everything knock aed over. and at first, it was oh, my goodness what a disaster but it turned out to be really good union. yeah, to kind of gauge what happened, we looked at it thinking okay, it s basically this little area that got taken out, we re going to continue, the ceremony is on the other side, our coordinator and the whole event sprung into action with a lot of our family and friends. and our amazing deejay, deejay tiger who was able to keep the party going. yes. he kept going. it was so fun. we re really lucky for all of our friends and family. look, experience weddings are the thing right now. so, you really have done it the right way. dillon and riley murphy, the most important thing, you re happy, you re smiling, you re well. it was an event you ll never forget. we wish you a lifetime of mostly dry happiness. thank you so much. th
Other side. fortunately, we were able to have a party and still able to dance. we were dancing in the grass. and i think the one thing that we had flooded was our dance floor. nobody seemed to mind. we had a really fun party. it didn t stop the party one bit. it was a really good union of people coming together and this wasn t washed away. or the people. so it was pretty beautiful to wash. it is amazing. it s obviously something you ll ever forget this has happened. most importantly, were you anywhere near this when this happened? was your dress okay? my dress was okay. my bridesmaids and i had just arrived. i sand our bridemads were hiding and then i was far from the