Stirewalt, who was fired from Fox last year, made the announcement on the NewsNation cable network, where he is currently the political editor.
“I have been summoned to testify before this committee and I will do so on Monday,” he said on air on Friday.
He told presenter Adrienne Bankert that “he was not able to tell you now what my deposition will be”, but said he wanted to make a full revelation.
The commission has already said it will look into how former President Trump’s false election statements were spread in the media.
Stirewalt’s announcement comes the day after the committee’s first public hearing on Jan. 6, 2021, when hundreds of Trump supporters smashed Capitol doors and windows to cut off congressional confirmation of Joe Bain’s election victory. of 2020.
Former President Donald Trump appears in a video during a House committee hearing to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. REUTERS
The next hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday with five more scheduled. Fox News did not broadcast the committee’s first hearing.
Stirewalt was fired by Fox News in January 2021, in what the network called a restructuring at the time. But Stirwalt later wrote in the Los Angeles Times that he was canned by the network after defending Fox News’ decision to call the important state of Arizona for Joe Biden on election night. The call signaled the first major signal that Trump would lose his re-election bid.
In turn, the Trump camp asked the network to withdraw what it claimed was an early phone call. When the network refused, it provoked reactions from the candidate and his supporters.
In an article in the LA Times, Stirewalt, without citing Fox News, said the “super men” in the media helped spread the false rumor that the election was stolen by Trump.
“The uprising of the populist right against the results of the 2020 elections was partly a cynical, deliberate attempt by politicians and their men in the media to steal elections or at least get rich trying,” he wrote. “But it was also the tragic consequence of information malnutrition that hit the nation so hard.”
Last year, Rupert Murdoch, who controls Fox News’s parent company, told the Washington Post that Stirewalt’s dismissal “had nothing to do with Arizona’s proper call from Fox’s decision-making office.”
