Fired Fox Editor at Jan. 6 Hearing: ‘Red Mirage’ Drove Trump to Believe He Won – Even Though It Was Expected

This story is developing …Previous Hearings:Day 5 on June 23 included testimony showing that Trump pressured on his own attorney general’s office to overturn the 2020 election – an effort one dissenting Justice Department official called a “murder-suicide pact.” The committee was expected to hear from a documentary filmmaker Alex Holder, who chronicled the final six weeks of the Donald Trump presidency, but Holder’s appearance was delayed. Read about Day 5 highlights here.Day 4 on June 21 included Republican state officials from around the country telling the committee how Trump tried to pressure them to overturn election results, including sending supporters to officials’ homes, waving weapons and shouting insults and threats of violence here.Day 3 kicked off June 16 with testimony focusing on the intense pressure President Trump put on Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the election.

Brian Steinberg Senior TV EditorMadison Avenue’s growing interest in sports and streaming video helped Fox Corp. nab new ad dollars amid a softening market.The owner of the Fox broadcast network, Fox Sports and Fox News Channel expects an uptick in advertising commitments made in advance of its next programming schedule, according to a person familiar with the matter, as the company becomes the latest media outlet to wrap negotiations in the industry’s annual “upfront.”Advertisers were interested in Tubi, Fox’s ad-supported streaming hub; the company’s sports events; and its Fox News programming, this person said, among other offerings.The company could see an uptick of volume committed to its primetime broadcast schedule in the mid-single-digit percentage range.

@AnnieGrayerCNN pic.twitter.com/g5TnEc3ZVjPenn was seated with Washington Metropolitan Police Officer Daniel Hodges, retired Metropolitan Police Officer Michael Fanone and Capitol Police Officer Sgt.

Politico reports that new documents from the National Archives and tips received from the public from the first four hearings are also a factor in extending the investigation into the insurrection attempt of Jan. 6, 202.

Following Tuesday’s hearing from the Jan. 6 select committee, “The View” host Sunny Hostin put her criminal prosecution experience to work. And to her ears, there are at least three criminal charges that Donald Trump should face.During the show’s Hot Topics discussion, the panel of women noted that with every new reveal from the committee hearings, they are more disgusted, and often more disheartened.

Tuesday column for the National Review that it is “unnecessary [for the committee] to demonstrate either that Trump is unfit for the presidency or that he may be guilty of a crime.” He states that the committee has successfully shown that Trump is “unfit for office” and that “it may even be showing that he obstructed Congress or … conspired to defraud the United States.” However, McCarthy differs from the committee in believing the coup attempt was never “plausible” and that “the system did work” in preventing the election being overturned, comments of which you can watch below. Fox News legal analyst Andy McCarthy says the Jan.

UPDATE: J. Michael Luttig, a retired judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals, said that if Mike Pence went with Donald Trump’s orders to reject the electoral vote count for Joe Biden it “would have plunged America into what I believe would have been tantamount to a revolution within a constitutional crisis in America.” Luttig, a conservative judge and informal adviser to Pence, said that it “would have been the first constitutional crisis since the founding of the republic.”

Stephen Colbert was none too pleased to hear that the January 6 committee hearing scheduled for Wednesday was postponed due to “technical issues.” Upon learning exactly what those issues were, the “Late Show” host went off.“They promised us hearings! We can’t let them get away with this. I’m storming the Capitol! Who’s with me?” Colbert joked, before screaming and running around his studio for a moment.

he was very drunk at the time. But there were more than enough Trump insiders on-hand and on-video – to shed light on how this happened – and what went down at the White House on election night.Giuliani has since denied that he was drunk, but it’s likely Kimmel doesn’t believe him.

The January 6th Committee’s second public hearing this year had a last minute change in plan: Bill Stepien, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, bowed out early on Monday due to a family emergency.

Other witnesses include Chris Stirewalt, a former Fox News editor, who was part of the team that made the decision to call Arizona for eventual election winner Joe Biden in November 2020. The decision reportedly infuriated Trump, who reached out directly to Fox News leadership to complain. Stirewalt has become an outspoken critic of political media since leaving the network.

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorThe irony is rich: Truth Social, Donald Trump’s Twitter copycat claiming it is “free from political discrimination,” has reportedly banned users who posted information from Thursday’s congressional hearing on the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S.

commercial-free two hours featuring regular hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity riffling through guests to trash the proceedings as they happened.“The focus seems to be the target of President Donald Trump, and he looks really bad in this presentation,” Baier said. “He’s just watching the TVs and kind of applauding what’s happening.

CNBC.Bankert, caught off guard by her own scoop, pressed Stirewalt for details.“I’m not in a position to tell you what my testimony will be about,” he said. “I just want to make sure that folks know that I am, so I’m not playing any hidden-ball tricks here.

Chris Stirewalt, the Fox News political editor let go from the network in January, 2021, said that he has been called to testify before the January 6th Committee and will do so on Monday.

#LateShowLIVE show!! #January6thHearings #TheMuppets pic.twitter.com/4sRNVAH0IAThe clip used repurposed footage of the actual “The Muppet Show” intro, but with the Muppet-impersonators singing lyrics about the hearings, instead of about Muppets putting on a show.The lyrics are:Kermit the Frog: “It’s the House Select Committee’s Jan. 6 hearings!”Female chorus: “It’s time for Bennie Thompson.

not to broadcast the Jan. 6 House committee hearings in full – complaining about the nature of proceedings going on in the background while wrangling a robust lineup of familiar guests to join the grousing about them.It was certainly a juggling act, and Carlson and his guests pulled off their first night of the much-criticized strategy without a hiccup.In a surprise, Fox News Channel presented “Tucker Carlson Tonight” without ads for the entire hour, and made a promise to “break in” to the hearings when “warranted” – but never took the chance to do so live.