The next hearing by the House of Representatives committee on January 6 will not be in prime time, but will be widely broadcast on television.
The hearing begins Monday at 10 a.m. Eastern Time. In addition to in-depth cable coverage, the three major broadcast networks – ABC, NBC and CBS – plan to prevent regular special reporting programs for the hearing. Spokespeople spokesmen confirmed that all stations are expected to wear specials. PBS also arranges live broadcasts. CNN’s special report begins at 9 a.m. ET. MSNBC promotes full morning coverage. The cable’s X-factor is Fox – and it will show the hearing: As LA Times reporter Stephen Battalio noted here, “Fox News plans to cover the hearings on its main channel when they resume on Monday.”
Fox’s argument seems to be that prime time is different from the day: Prime is for opinion leaders like Tucker Carlson, who turned down the hearing last Thursday, but the day is for news.
The plan means Fox intends to show live testimony from one of its former employees, Chris Sturwolt, who was Fox’s political director during the 2020 election. Stirewalt aired on Fox on election night to defend the call of the Arizona Decision Bureau. He was subsequently fired. Stirewalt gave numerous interviews and joined the newly formed NewsNation channel, but he was always somewhat cautious about the specifics of those dangerous days and weeks at Fox. So it will be fascinating to see how his testimony fits into the story of the House committee. He will be the first on Monday, along with a surprising addition announced on Sunday: Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign manager Bill Stepien.
The pairing makes sense – both men know first-hand how Trump’s lies are penetrating the Republican universe in the winter of 2020. Remember, this is how Republican Liz Cheney predicts Monday’s hearing: “You’ll see that Donald Trump and his advisers knew he had in fact lost the election. However, President Trump has made great efforts to spread false and fraudulent information – to convince large sections of the US population that fraud has stolen the election from him. That was not true … “
What to expect
According to CNN’s Annie Grayer and Zachary Cohen, Monday’s hearing “will be divided into two witness groups, with multimedia presentations and videotapes of recorded testimonies scattered throughout.” An aide to an elected committee told reporters that the hearing would focus on Trump’s false claims that I won the election “and the decision to impose this lie on millions of supporters.” The hearing will last a little over two hours …
>> The Democratic Republic of Adam Schiff tweeted Sunday night: “Our first hearing was just a sample of the evidence we gathered. Tomorrow we will tell the story of how Trump deliberately propagated his big lie. He then used this lie to pressure lawmakers, the vice president and eventually summon the crowd. The public deserves to know. “>> What will Republican Elise Stefanick say next? On Sunday, she broke off the prime-time hearing by telling Maria Bartiromo that” typically a serious congressional hearing happens during the day, usually starting at 10 a.m. ” Well, this is the plan …
What Murdoch’s newspapers say
This happens from time to time, but it is still remarkable: Rupert Murdoch-controlled publications take a firmer stance against Trump than Murdoch-owned television. The Wall Street Journal’s most-read opinion this weekend was an editorial on Friday that concluded: “Trump betrayed his supporters by deceiving them on Jan. 6, and he still does.” The New York Post’s editorial board expressed a slightly different tone, but urged readers to “unsubscribe from Trump’s daily emails asking for money” and “choose their favorite from a new group of conservatives.” Get away from Trump, the editors wrote, and Let’s Make America Reasonable. As former Obama aide Dan Pfeiffer, author of the new book Fighting the Big Lie, said in Sunday’s Reliable Sources, “this whole right … The wing of the media apparatus is designed with one goal in mind, to elect Republicans to the post. party.
Pfeiffer speaks of 1/6 in the scale of the story and claims that “January 6 is a stenography of what is happening now. You have a Republican candidate for governor of Michigan arrested at his house for participating in the uprising,” he said. “You have a candidate for governor of Pennsylvania who is [running] on Donald Trump’s platform for providing electoral votes in Pennsylvania, no matter what voters say. This is a clear and present danger, “so the hearings” focus the mind on what lies ahead, not just on what happened … “
More information
– Chuck Todd’s questions about “Meet the Press”: “If this was happening in another country, what would we think?” That it is strong enough to maintain its democracy and the rule of law? Or subject to the supremacy of the crowd? And what will be the reaction here to the prosecution of a former president who is a favorite for the Republican nomination in 2024? He may even be an active candidate when charged … “(NBC) – Director Nick Questid, who testified on Thursday, told me:” Until we have the recorded facts, we can’t have a proper discussion on how to change (CNN) – Also in Sunday’s “Reliable” senior Daily Caller correspondent Shelby Talcott suggested a POV from conservative media. for groceries, baby formula. So how did these hearings help these problems? “(CNN) – In Face the Nation, John Dickerson looked to the past for wisdom.” In a healthy democracy, we need to be able to do both, “he said. on pressing issues such as inflation and important issues such as the onslaught of democracy at the same time … (CBS)
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