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‘Why in the world?’ Fired Fox News editor Chris Stirewalt surprises news anchor with Jan 6 ‘bombshell’

June 10, 2022 | | Print Article

Before the ratings have even come out on the first prime time Jan. 6 hearings, fired Fox News political editor Chris Stirewalt announced Friday that he’ll be testifying at the sequel, set to air on Monday.

Stirewalt made the “full disclosure” announcement on Friday on NewsNation, the network that hired him after Fox showed him the door.

Asked to join Adrienne Bankert, host of “Morning in America with Adrienne,” for his analysis of Thursday night’s hearing, Stirewalt made a point of mentioning his upcoming role in the House’s big show.

“I should first disclose, I should say that I have been called to testify before this committee, and I will do so on Monday,” he said when asked about the Committee’s purpose. “And so, just in full disclosure, that.”

 

Eventually, Bankert pressed him on the “bombshell” news.

“[Y]ou dropped a little bit of a bombshell there saying that you’re called in to testify and you will testify,” she said. “Why in the world are you testifying in this January 6 hearing?”

According to Stirewalt, spoilers aren’t allowed for this production.

“Well, I am not in a position now to tell you what my testimony will be about,” he said. “I just want to make sure that folks know that I am so that it — so, so that I’m not playing any hidden ball tricks here. I was asked to testify and I, and I got to go.”

Bankert pressed harder, but Stirewalt declined again to answer, insisting it’s only important that the viewers know he’ll be front and center.

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“As I say, I’m not in a position to tell you what I’m going to testify about,” he said. “I just wanted to make sure that folks knew that I was going to participate there.”

While Stirewalt’s lips may have been sealed, CNBC has some thoughts on why he may be on the committee’s list.

“Stirewalt came under fire from Trump and his supporters after the Fox News political desk was the first to call Arizona for Biden in November 2020,” CNBC’s Mike Calia writes. “The state had a recent track record for voting for Republican presidential candidates, so the call stunned the political world and all but confirmed Trump would lose the 2020 election.”

Citing an article in The Washington Post, Calia notes that Rupert Murdoch, who heads Fox News’s parent company, claimed that Stirewalt’s forced departure from the network “had nothing to do with the correct Arizona call by the Fox decision desk.”

In a lengthy thread, NewsNation’s Kellie Meyer was able to disclose on Twitter what Stirewalt allegedly could not.

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“Stirewalt has previously discussed text messages that ‘several prominent Fox News hosts sent on January 6,” she tweeted “In those messages, they urged Trump’s then-chief of staff Mark Meadows to call on the then-president to do more to stop the violence.'”

“Could be what he is called in for,” she speculated.


Meyer recalled Stirewalt’s previous claims that his former colleagues at Fox News were “pushing Trumps false claims the 2020 presidential election was stolen, parroting many of his baseless claims of widespread voter fraud prior- in the days leading up to Jan. 6.”

 

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“The former Fox News editor said the hosts ‘were functioning as an arm of the Republican Party,'” Meyer stated before wondering if this could be the real reason behind Fox News’  decision not to cover the hearings.

“Mondays hearing just got a lot more interesting,” she promised.

 

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48 thoughts on “‘Why in the world?’ Fired Fox News editor Chris Stirewalt surprises news anchor with Jan 6 ‘bombshell’”

  1. Is this in hopes that people would watch this trashy reality show? Hey bizpac, there are bigger fish to fry, most people are worrying about the economy, border and inflation. J6, that ship has sailed!!!!

  2. If you have ever been called in to testify, DO YOU know what the questions are before you testify? PROOF this is a show and not a hearing!

  3. I never could tolerate this smarmy, and obviously leftist and here is additional proof of just how right I was not to. Why he was ever hired as “on air” talent at FOX was always a mystery to me. What a creep!!

  4. “The former Fox News editor said the hosts ‘were functioning as an arm of the Republican Party,’” So what? All the other networks form the body of the Democrat Party!

  6. He was anti President Trump the entire time he was on fox. Stirwalt is a gap toothed, brainwashed, corrupt slob.

  8. O, for God’s sake!

    FOX is going the way of CNN and MSNBC

    Face it

    1. Oh yeah, I forgot about him~~ wonder if Pencil Neck has him tied up in his basement.

  10. Fox news was functioning as an arm of the republican party???? Have they watched CNN, MSNBC etc.?

  11. He is going to point the finger at Fox News and blame them for Jan 6th. The left is perpetually gunning for Fox and any other conservative news outlets. This is just another Flop from the left nothing to see here. His lame attempt at revenge for him being canned.

  12. Jan 6 is old news-only the Trump haters and staunch Democrats care about it – it is a distraction from the worst economy, inflation in 43 years, Highest prices for EVERYTHING in our history, Open Borders, The worst crime wave in our history.

  13. Really doubt telling a few thousand or so viewers will boost the J6 primetime clown circus committee show. Just saying

  15. the violence all being caused by agent provocteurs of the antifa blm type. What a fraud.

  17. The Murdoch’s kids were aware of the massive and successful cheating. They were given a thumb up long before enough vote were collected.
    Didn’t they give $20 millions for dems.
    Prize to pay to be in the know long before anybody else.

  18. When the Donald calls you out and he gets nasty with you I guess the next thing you should do is go over to the dark side. Did not know stilwhatever was fired. Goes to show just how much he was on Fox News.

    1. Stirewalt was just one of the signs that FOX was going to the dogs along with their competition on the rest MSM.

  19. ‘Will not be watching a scintilla of that Leftist tribunal. Nothing but a show trial. But they’ll hear from me in November…and my entire extended family.

    1. Same. I gave up watching this sort of programming when Fantasy Island went off the air.

  20. Due to the make-up of the committee, how can anyone think that this whole investigation and hearing will not be slanted to the left and based on their hatred of Trump? Only the Trump haters will not see through this very thinly veiled kangaroo court.

    1. Even the Trump haters see — they just don’t want to admit they’re just as stupid as the “committee.”

    2. It’s all they’ve got, so they are trying to milk this fraud as long as possible. Someone needs to tell them that cow has gone dry!!

  21. Hey bizpacreview — why do you show “8 comments” when there are only 3?? Is it because you’ve censored the other five??? STOP!

    1. Hello CashGirl,

      The “other” comments are spam comments that have been deleted from the post. Nobody is censoring comments on the site. Some comments trigger moderation settings and need to be manually approved, but that is not the case.

      Thank you.

      1. Thank you for your response, Sierra. But the comments a couple of us made disappeared for a while although they are now showing it looks like. And I frequently get the “awaiting for approval” indication. And if something needs to be approved, “manually approved” or otherwise, it does sound like “censoring.” Regardless, again, I appreciate that you took the time to respond. 👍

        1. Those are usually the comments that contain links or “trigger” words for the system. I’ve noticed personally that comments that contain the word “socialism” are auto-flagged, and it’s a setting we haven’t been able to turn off. This comment system is… we’ll say less than ideal, and we are currently working on switching to a much better system that will have better spam filters, notifications/alerts when people reply to your comments, etc.

          1. I appreciate the efforts, but you would be better served to go back to the old system. The bug that kicks us to Tommy’s Garage whenever we type an “f” is STILL not fixed and is annoying. We no longer get notifications of comments on our posts. The list goes on.

            If YOU (BPR) are not setting your own flags, then I don’t understand why you are using the system you are. Using a system created by Leftists on this particular site is insanity. This is all stuff you need to test before you launch on the site. This system is a nightmare.

            Just so you know, I was kicked to Tommy’s Garage 5 times while typing this. Due to the bug, I will NEVER watch that show – ever.

            2. The old system was great, until they decided to partner with fact-checking organization NewsGuard. We didn’t think that giving fact-checkers access to our comment system was a good idea so we were forced to part ways with them.

              We are aware of the downsides of using this system, which is why we’re working with another system to switch over. Unfortunately, this is taking some time.

            3. It’s still a pain, but iF you capitalize the “F” it will not trigger the “garage”. On another point, I Find it hilarious that they will not let us use the word (Socia!ist) that best describes the DemoKKKraps!!!!
              MAGAA Trump 2024 (or sooner)

  22. It really annoys me when POTUS Trump is called a ‘Liar’, or his comments on the 2020 election are called baseless or false. The information shown in videos of people inputting ballots after the polling place closed, or the info from “2000 Mules”
    and other studies showing problems with the voting machines, clearly indicate that further investigation is warranted. Lies are saying that 5 police officers were killed by the protesters on Jan.6 when the only death by violence on Jan 6 was that of Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed female veteran. When the Washington ‘Swamp’ dismisses anything, we need to look at it more closely because those in the Washington ‘Swamp’ are habitual liars. Am I a ‘Liar’ because I expressed my opinion about the incidents surrounding the 2020 election. or is my opinion just that, an opinion.

    1. I agree with you. This is pure demonrat kabuki theater designed to make sure Trump doesn’t run in 2024 and take them all out. Which will happen regardless which Republican candidate wins in 2024. The “Big Lie” was Fraudci’s fake Covid. Luckily the dimwitted dems all got quadruple vaxxed, so they’ll be dead or dying by 2024. Good riddance to them all.

    2. Yup, the swamp alligators make up this committee. How can someone see how slanted this whole investigation and hearing are with the objective is to ruin any chance of Trump ever running for office again.

    3. The only police to die committed suicide, other than the one that had a stroke the next day. I imagine their guilt over attacking Americans exercising their Constitutional rights was too much for them to live with.

    4. Video evidence also shows that Roseanne Boyland was beaten to death by a D.C. Police oFFicer. So yeh, 0 cops killed, TWO (2) unarmed white women killed by said cops.
      MAGAA Trump 2024 (or sooner)

  23. Stirewell is probably thrilled to be asked to appear, so he can cast more aspersions against Fox News for firing him!! The very fact that this will be nothing but “sour grapes” on his part, should destroy any credibility anybody ever thought he may have. But then — this entire Big Top circus these clowns have produced, is nothing but “sour grapes” intended to destroy our good President Trump. Nothing they’ve tried so far has worked, but hey, why not keep spending taxpayers money on these demented, hypocritical actions? Money and time, of course, that these grifters should be devoting to digging America out of this hole the White House squatter and they have dug for Americans. But then, they don’t care about us, do they?

  24. Stirewalt`s TDS is clearly a form of mental illness. To further verify this, he must be angling for a job at either CNN or MSNBC, both of whom specialize in hiring similar deranged liars, like the “race lady”.

    1. The demented Demcorats and their hand-selected Democrats dressed in Republican clothing, don’t worry about whether something is true or not. They make up anything they want, as we know, when they want to continue their tirade against our good President Trump!!

    1. Mine has disappeared, too, bruce, as this one probably will. Guess the bizpac censors don’t appreciate the truth!! 😠

  27. Why would fox show the hearings? It’s just a bunch of democrats telling the county lies. No real news to report! Just the same crap from the last 6 years, but hey not their money they are spending in a time when the nations folks are going broke!

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