MSNBC host Ari Melber noted on Wednesday’s episode of The Beat that he has noticed a change in tune for some of Rupert Murdoch’s media outlets when it comes to Donald Trump and the January 6 hearings.
“Today as it roils the nation, other conservatives are also, some, joining the same breaking point,” Melber began after noting former Trump chief of staff Mick Mulvaney had applauded Cassidy Hutchinson who testified before the January 6th Committee on Tuesday.
Melber went on to say he can see “cracks in the normal united defense of Trump in right-wing commentary and media.”
“The top hosts of Fox News, some are still trying to dismiss all the testimony, but there are also pretty clear and unusual signs of a partial split within the Murdoch media empire,” Melber argued, adding:
Melber then played clips of Sean Hannity dismissing the hearings as a “bizarre hearsay allegation” and Fox News legal expert Andrew Mccarthy touting the hearings as impactful.
“‘Unfitness,’ ‘may be guilty of a crime,’ another word is ‘devastating’ and the last voice was the conservative prosecutor Andrew Mccarthy,” Melber explained of the clip.
One legal expert on Fox telling the audience there the new testimony was worse than America thought and the top newspaper in the Murdoch empire, the Wall Street Journal has a new editorial, on behalf of the paper, which does criticize the committee – I alway want you to have the full facts – they do take shots at what they see as a partisan committee but they note, quote, ‘accumulating evidence of Trump’s conduct based on first- hand accounts’ and Republicans must face the evidence of Trump’s behavior, which will be relevant to voters if he runs.
“The split has continued on Fox’s air where political anchors are still defending Trump amidst the evidence but other legal guests have broken ranks,” he continued.
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