states capitol. that means pretty much every cable news channel and three major broadcast networks will be providing wall-to-wall coverage, everyone except fox news which will stick with its regularly scheduled programming of tucker carlson, sean hannity and laura ingraham rick they are demoting their coverage to the much watched business channel. the primetime hosts will cover the events as news warrants. the network s decision might help avoid some awkwardness more thanity an ingraham who were actively communicating with mark meadow, trump s chief of staff on that slept day. in the 17 months since the insurrection, fox news, particularly the knocks in primetime, has spent hours undermining the severity of the attack on the capitol and more hours painting the investigation of it as a partisan witch hunt against the former president despite there being two republicans on the committee including vice chair liz cheney. according to philip bump of the washington post the reap
news breaking about how the secret service scrambled to find some way donald trump might have joined what we now know is a march that ended in a criminal breach of the cooperate that day. we re also learning this hearing will feature testimony by the first capitol officer injured as well as video evidence that appears to blow the lid on a sket military meeting in an underground parking garage. this was on insurrection eve. stewart. pleasure. pleasure s all mine. i m going stay close, just to make sure my guys are okay. okay. tomorrow. i got a lot of stuff to do tomorrow. that s what the meeting looked like. both of the individuals you see there are now awaiting their trials for sedition. one of the most serious types of conspiracies on the federal books. we ve got a lot going on tonight as i mentioned, so i m going to get right to it and bring in our special guest on this busy news week, barbara mcquade and veteran political strategist and former obama adviser and
from msnbc world headquarters here in new york, welcome everyone to alex witt reports. developing here for this hour, in just, days the january six select committee will begin laying out its findings in primetime public hearings. earlier, today committee member congressman adam schiff gave insight into the approach will be taking a detailing its findings. the american people, i think, now a great deal already. they ve seen a number of bombshells already. there is a great deal they haven t seen. but perhaps most important is that the public hasn t seen it woven together, how one thing led to another, at one line of effort to overturn the election led to another and ultimately led to terrible violence. the first non peaceful transfer of power in our history. so, we want to tell that comprehensive narrative. meanwhile, a new look at americans attitudes to gun laws as the debate over gun violence pretend prevention intensifies. and you cbs news yougov poll shows 60% of americ
night. navarro was one of the ringleaders of the attempted coup, and we know that because they cleverly confessed to entire plot on national tv. this plan we had called the green bay sweep, we were going to challenge the results of the election in the six battleground states. green bay sweep, so navarro thought he could admit to trying to overturn a fair election on national tv and there would be no consequences because he gave it a fun nickname? the sports branding has indeed been the odd part of the coup plotting and there are signs that conservatives are concerned that even whatever branding they are going to do is not going to withstand what done a mountain of damning evidence coming forward in the hearings starting thursday and that s why maybe fox news isn t even playing or pretending unlike other news networks. they say they just won t carry the hearings for their viewers. other networks, mind you, are actually preempting entertainment shows and advertising to cover this
because that s the tradition of news organizations when they cover news. no matter which party might be more in charge of congress. fox though has been deeply deeply committed to misleading about what happened at the insurrection, downplaying it, and the network has said that on the business channel they will cover the hearings as warranted. i mean, why? doesn t even purport to make sense if that s the finance channel, but anyway, the bigger issue for them is that their top hosts are in a tough spot. they did privately agree with the thrust of the committee probe. in other words, fox news hosts on january 1th agree with the committee in june 22. literally the main thrust of the committee. the problem for fox is that they all took it back. at the time those hosts on record in writing said something. let me tell you what it is, it s not that shocking. they said insurrections are bad, and if insurrections are bad, then you try to stop them so