Fox News political editor Chris Stirewalt has said he will testify at the next select committee hearing in the House on January 6 at the Capitol.
Stirewalt, who was fired from Fox last year, made the announcement on the cable network NewsNation, where he is currently the political editor.
“I have been called to testify before this committee, and I will do so on Monday,” he told the air on Friday.
He told presenter Adrienne Bankert that “now I was not in a position to tell you what my testimony will be about,” but he said he wanted to make a full revelation.
The committee has already indicated that it will examine how former President Trump’s false election claims were spread in the media.
Stirewalt’s announcement comes the day after the committee’s first public hearing on the January 6, 2021 riot, when hundreds of Trump supporters entered through the doors and windows of the Capitol to interrupt congressional confirmation. Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.
Former President Donald Trump is seen on video during the House select committee hearing to investigate the January 6 attack on Capitol Hill.REUTERS
The next hearing is scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday with five more hearings scheduled later. Fox News did not broadcast the committee’s first hearing at prime time, Fox News Channel was left with its usual programming of opinion hosts during the hearing itself, including Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity.
Stirewalt was fired from Fox News in January 2021, in what the network called a restructuring at the time. But Stirewalt later wrote in the Los Angeles Times that the network was canned after defending Fox News’ decision to call Arizona’s major swing state for Joe Biden on election night. The call marked the first major signal that Trump would lose his re-election candidacy.
In turn, the Trump camp demanded that the network retract what it claimed was a premature call. When the network refused, it provoked a reaction from the candidate and his supporters.
In his LA Times opinion piece, Stirewwalt, without calling Fox News, said the “fashion men” in the media helped propel the false narrative that the election was stolen from Trump.
“The rebellion of the populist right against the results of the 2020 elections was in part a cynical and conscious effort by political operators and their drummers in the media to steal an election or at least try to do so. get rich, ”he wrote. “But it was also the tragic consequence of the information malnutrition that is so severely affecting the nation.”
Last year, Rupert Murdoch, who controls the parent company of Fox News, told The Washington Post that Stirewalt’s dismissal “had nothing to do with Arizona’s correct call by the decision-making board. Fox “.