ABC, CBS and NBC have each announced plans to cover and carry Thursday’s primetime hearing of the January 6th Committee, in which lawmakers are expected to reveal new information about the siege on the U.S.
Capitol.The hearing is viewed as a chance for the committee to garner the spotlight on its investigation, which have so far been largely conducted behind the scenes and via press release announcements and news reports on what it has found and who has testified.
The fact that the broadcast networks will break into regular primetime programming is an indicator of the importance they are putting on the proceedings.David Muir will anchor a special report for ABC News, Norah O’Donnell will anchor for CBS News broadcast and streaming and Lester Holt for NBC News and NBC News Now.Cable news networks also are expected to carry the hearing.Fox News has not announced its plans, but the hearing will take place at the same time that it airs two of its top rated shows, Tucker Carlson Tonight and Hannity, both of whom have attacked the committee investigation.
Carlson produced a January 6th project Patriot Purge, which advanced a conspiracy theory about the attack on the Capitol.Hannity is among the Fox News personalties whose names have come up during the committee’s probe into what happened.In one of the committee’s public hearings in December, Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-WY) read text messages that Laura Ingraham, Brian Kilmeade and Sean Hannity sent to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows as the attack unfolded.
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