Jonathan Ernst Reuters A former political editor of Fox News, who was fired from the cable network last year, said on Friday that he would testify Monday at the next House select committee hearing on the Jan. 6 uprising in the Capitol. Chris Stirewalt made the announcement on the NewsNation cable network, where he is the political editor. He said he could not discuss what the testimony would be. His announcement came in the morning after the first public hearing of the January 6, 2021 uprising committee, when hundreds of supporters of then-President Donald Trump stormed through the doors and windows to invade the Capitol and delay its confirmation. from Congress. 2020 elections. The next hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m. ET Monday and five more hearings are scheduled afterwards. Fox News did not broadcast the hearing live on Thursday night, as did other news and television networks. Instead, Fox aired a two-hour program without commercials from right-wing commentators Tucker Carlson, who dismissed the hearing as “propaganda” and Sean Hannity. While Fox News broadcast live footage from the audition, Carlson and others talked about it and the camera often focused on the audience rather than the footage of the Capitol attack. During the hearing, the committee presented texts from Hannibal to then-White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany describing a “book” about Trump after the uprising. Stirewalt came under fire from Trump and his supporters after Fox News’s political office was the first to call Arizona for Biden in November 2020. The state had a recent history of voting for the Republican presidential nominee. The call surprised the political world and everyone but confirmed that Trump would lose the 2020 election. Stirewalt was fired in January 2021. 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 the Fox decision office.” After his dismissal from Fox, Stirewalt, without mentioning Fox News, said that the “super men” of the media helped to spread the false rumor that the election was stolen by Trump. “The populist right-wing uprising against the 2020 election results was partly a cynical, deliberate attempt by politicians and their media men to steal elections or at least get rich by trying,” he wrote in the Los Angeles Times. op-ed. “But it was also the tragic consequence of information malnutrition that hit the nation so hard.” Representatives of Fox News and the selection committee did not immediately respond to a request for comment. – CNBC’s Kevin Breuninger and Brian Schwartz contributed to this report.
