Former Fox News political editor Chris Sturworth said he would testify at the next hearing in the House of Representatives’ election committee for the Jan. 6 uprising in the Capitol.
Stirewalt, who was fired by Fox last year, made the announcement on the cable network NewsNation, where he is currently a political editor.
“I was called to testify before this commission and I will do so on Monday,” he said on Friday.
He told host Adrienne Bankert that “he is not able to tell you what my testimony will be about now,” but said he wanted to make a full disclosure.
The commission has already indicated that it will investigate how former President Trump’s false election allegations are being spread in the media.
Stirewalt’s announcement comes a day after the riot committee’s first public hearing on January 6, 2021, when hundreds of Trump supporters broke through the Capitol’s doors and windows to thwart Congress’ confirmation of Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 election.
Former President Donald Trump was seen on video during a hearing of the House Election Commission’s commission to investigate the January 6 attack on Capitol Hill. REUTERS
The next meeting is scheduled for 10 a.m. Monday, with five more scheduled to follow. Fox News did not broadcast the committee’s first prime-time hearing, the Fox News Channel remained with its usual lineup of opinion leaders during the hearing itself, including Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity.
Stirewalt was fired by 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 he had been shut down after defending Fox News’ decision to call the important Arizona swing for Joe Biden on election night. The call was the first major signal that Trump would lose his re-election.
For its part, Trump’s camp asked the network to withdraw what it claimed was a premature call. When the network refused, it provoked a reaction from the candidate and his supporters.
In an article in the LA Times, Stirewalt, without calling Fox News, said the media’s “hype men” had helped spread the false story that the election had been stolen by Trump.
“The revolt of the populist right against the results of the 2020 elections was partly a cynical, conscious effort by political operators and their advertising people in the media to steal elections or at least get rich by trying,” he wrote. “But it was also the tragic consequence of the information malnutrition that has hit the nation so hard.
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 a proper call to Arizona from Fox’s decision-making office.”
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