Republicans launch counter-programming to Jan. 6 Committee hearings with Stefanik, Scalise, Jordan m

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June 7, 2022 4:08pm EDT
Republicans launch counter-programming to Jan. 6 Committee hearings with Stefanik, Scalise, Jordan media event
Stefanik-led event part of series of GOP events, media appearances pushing back on Jan. 6 Committee

By Tyler Olson | Fox News

    FIRST ON FOX: House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik is leading an event with House Minority Whip Steve Scalise, and Reps. Jim Banks and Jim Jordan as Republicans prepare their counter-programming for the Jan. 6 Committee's first televised hearings.

The 10:45 a.m. press conference Wednesday is set to be a show of unity by two high-profile members of GOP leadership and two of the Republicans House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., rejected from the committee. Jordan himself was subpoenaed by the committee, along with a handful of other members including Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif.

"I am working closely with President Trump, Leader Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan, and my colleagues to help lead House Republicans in pushing back against lame-duck Speaker Pelosi's sham political witch-hunt," Stefanik, R-N.Y., told Fox News about the event.

"House Republicans will be all over the airwaves setting the record straight, telling the American people the truth, sharing the facts, and asking the real questions like why Nancy Pelosi is the only person off limits from this investigation?" Stefanik also said.

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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/stefanik-jordan-banks-scalise-january-6-committee-pushback

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 Elise which network is going to give you time to counter all of these allegations?

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STEFANIK: The Greatest Distraction On Earth Is About To Begin — Brought To You By Nancy Pelosi


Elise Stefanik
Chairwoman, House Republican Conference
June 07, 2022 4:50 PM ET
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There’s a reason House Democrats waited until the pinnacle of election season to hold public hearings on Jan. 6.

Democrats face a cataclysmic job review from the American people in just five short months. President Joe Biden’s approval rating is flailing, economic growth has ground to a halt, and American families are reeling from the Left’s failed agenda for the nation. Election Day will be Judgment Day for the Democrats.

In one final feeble attempt to distract Americans from their abysmal performance in the majority, House Democrats have shamelessly prepared a prime time courtroom-style drama for the American people that fails to address any of the issues that matter. Under failed Democrat leadership, there will be no important hearings on the border crisis, Bidenflation, gas prices, the crime surge or the baby formula shortage.

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https://dailycaller.com/2022/06/07/opinion-the-greatest-distraction-on-earth-is-about-to-begin-brought-to-you-by-nancy-pelosi-stefanik/

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 House GOP mounts media battle in prebuttal to Jan. 6 hearing
by Emily Brooks and Dominick Mastrangelo - 06/08/22 1:57 PM ET

House Republicans are casting Thursday’s primetime hearing by the committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol as a media production aimed at smearing former President Trump.

The effort by Republicans to push back at the hearing has started days before the spectacle is set to be carried live by the major networks and news networks — with the notable exception of Fox News Channel, which will air its regular programming.

Democrats have set expectations for the hearing high, both by putting it in primetime and with statements signaling they believe it will give voters new information about what happened the day a mob of Trump’s supporters overwhelmed Capitol Police and forced the evacuation of a Congress certifying President Biden’s win in the presidential race.

The GOP is arguing the effort is just meant to distract voters from inflation and crime, two issues that Republicans expect to be a big part of their effort to win back the House and Senate this fall.

“They are scrambling to change the headlines, praying that the nation will focus on their partisan witch hunt instead of our pocketbooks. It will not work,” House GOP Chair Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.) said in a Wednesday press conference.

Stefanik, who replaced Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.) — one of two Republicans on the Jan. 6 panel — as conference chair, called it a “smear campaign against President Donald Trump.”

She also dinged the committee for enlisting the help of former ABC president James Goldston in producing Thursday’s hearing. She and other House Republicans criticized Goldston for overseeing ABC’s killing of stories about convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif), who has received a subpoena from the committee, pointed to a letter he sent the then-ABC News executive in 2019 about a hot mic video of ABC News anchor Amy Robach saying that the network killed a story about Epstein and her interview with one of his accusers. The hearing, McCarthy tweeted, will be “political theatre.”

The committee did not immediately respond to a request for comment on those assertions.

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https://thehill.com/news/house/3516209-house-gop-mounts-media-battle-in-prebuttal-to-jan-6-hearing/