“I have been called to testify before this committee and I will do so on Monday,” he told NewsNation, where he works as a political editor.
Fox fired Stirewwal in January 2021 after the right-wing reaction to the network, rightly calling Arizona as president now Joe Biden during the 2020 presidential election. Stirewalt wrote in a Los Angeles Times article after his dismissal that the refusal to believe the election results among many supporters of former President Donald Trump was a “tragic consequence of the information malnutrition that so severely affects the nation.”
During the NewsNation interview, Stirewalt said, “Now I’m not in a position to tell you what my testimony will be about.”
He continued: “I was asked to testify and I have to go.”
He criticized both sides for politicizing the Jan. 6 investigation, adding, “Those two parties have pasted it from pen to mail.”
When asked for a comment on his statements, Stirewalt told CNN, “I’ll let my comments on the air speak for themselves.”
The select committee of the House investigating the U.S. Capitol bombing on January 6, 2021 held its first full-time hearing on Thursday evening, detailing the findings of the panel’s investigation and playing a new video of the closed-door statements of members of the Trump team and representing the violence in the Capitol.
Thursday’s hearing was the first in a series this month that will highlight the findings of the panel’s investigation, which included interviews with more than 1,000 people about how Trump and his team tried to overturn the results of the 2020 elections on multiple fronts.
While the hearing aired Thursday, Fox, who did not join other major networks to show the audience live, downplayed the Jan. 6 violence and dismissed revelations about Trump’s conduct. The network also ignored its own role in promoting false claims about pre-riot elections and the posting of private messages by the committee among some of its hosts.