“My feeling is that they must present this in the most dramatic way they can so that people will continue to watch,” Behar told her co-hosts. “Maybe something like that will slap them into, ‘Wow, is that true?’”
“I don’t object to the theatricality of it,” she added, responding to claims that the hearings are simply political theater. “You’ve got to keep people’s attention.”
Host Whoopi Goldberg asserted that Fox News won’t be broadcasting the hearing, saying, “The No. 1 cable news network doesn’t think this is a newsworthy thing.”
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Fox News announced Monday that it won’t show prolonged coverage of the hearing and said that hosts will “cover the hearings as news warrants.” Fox Business will air the hearing, anchored by Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum. Coverage will also be available on Fox News Audio.
“They’re betting that you didn’t see what you saw,” Goldberg continued. “Most Americans saw what happened. They know what went down.”
“They’re doing exactly what you expect Fox to do,” she added.
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When guest host and Conservative commentator Lindsey Granger pointed out that Fox would be airing the hearing on its business channel, Behar dismissed it, saying, “Who watches that?”
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“Everybody’s online so I don’t want to hear that you can’t find it,” Granger said. “I think people should watch it, and people are smart enough to go find it.”
“You think the average Fox viewer will go somewhere else?” host Sunny Hostin asked.
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Hostin explained, “I think it’s such a disservice to the viewers that they peddled all this misinformation over the past couple of years but they’re not allowing their viewers to actually see the January 6 committee.”
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About half a dozen public hearings about investigations into the insurrection are planned throughout June. The Committee said it would release its findings in a report in September.
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At Thursday’s hearing, the Committee says it will “present previously unseen material” regarding January 6 and preview additional hearings.
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As committee members gear up for a month of hearings, they are also conscious of how best to capture Americans’ attention to rehash the insurrection well over a year ago.
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California Rep. Adam Schiff, who is a member of the Select Committee, told NPR he was thinking of the upcoming hearings as somewhat similar to the hearings that took place when former President Trump was impeached.
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“My thought is that what we tried to do in the impeachment trial... is to make it a multimedia presentation, to integrate witness testimony with video footage with documentary evidence with audio tapes to make it very engaging,” Schiff told NPR.
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