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Chris Stirewalt made the announcement on the Newsnation cable community, the place he is the political editor. He mentioned he could not talk about what the testimony can be about.
His announcement got here the morning after the committee’s first public listening to on the Jan. 6, 2021 revolt, when a whole bunch of followers of then-President Donald Trump busted by doorways and home windows to invade the Capitol and delay Congress’s affirmation of Joe Biden’s victory within the 2020 election.
The subsequent listening to is scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday and there are 5 extra hearings deliberate after that. Fox News did not carry the listening to stay Thursday night time as different information and broadcast networks did. Instead, Fox aired two hours of commercial-free programming from right-wing commentators Tucker Carlson, who dismissed the listening to as “propaganda,” and Sean Hannity.
While Fox News did air stay pictures from the listening to, Carlson and others spoke over it, and the digital camera typically centered on the viewers and never the footage of the assault on the Capitol. During the hearing, the committee displayed texts from Hannity to then-White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany outlining a post-riot “playbook” for Trump.
Stirewalt got here below fireplace from Trump and his supporters after the Fox News political desk was the primary to name Arizona for Biden in November 2020. The state had a current monitor file for voting for Republican presidential candidates, so the decision shocked the political world and all however confirmed Trump would lose the 2020 election.
Stirewalt was fired in January 2021. Rupert Murdoch, who controls Fox News’ dad or mum firm, told The Washington Post that Stirewalt’s firing “had nothing to do with the proper Arizona name by the Fox choice desk.”
After Fox fired him, Stirewalt, with out mentioning Fox News, mentioned media “hype males” helped push the false narrative that the election was stolen from Trump.
“The riot on the populist proper in opposition to the outcomes of the 2020 election was partly a cynical, realizing effort by political operators and their hype males within the media to steal an election or at the very least get wealthy attempting,” he wrote in a Los Angeles Times op-ed. “But it was additionally the tragic consequence of the informational malnourishment so badly afflicting the nation.”
Representatives for Fox News and the choose committee did not instantly reply to a request for remark.
CNBC’s Kevin Breuninger and Brian Schwartz contributed to this report.
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