The request will be made by the congressional select committee on Jan. 6 riot. “voluntary cooperation”Sean Hannity, Fox News host Axios reported TuesdayCiting a source with direct knowledge about the plan.
The committee did not specify what Hannity wanted from them, but the report did not say how. Hannity served as a close advisor to Donald Trump’s former president during his term.
The committee discovered last month that Hannity was in text communications with Mark Meadows, former White House Chief Of Staff, during the Capitol insurgency. They urged him to convince President Obama to end the riots.
Hannity said that all Trump supporters should be arrested. The committee has not yet provided any details about the type of cooperation they will ask for. Officials say that Hannity was among many Fox News hosts who were found texting Meadows at the time of the January attacks.
Fox News hosts Laura Ingraham (Fox News) and Brian Kilmeade (Fox News) were also revealed to have sent a text to Meadows on Jan. 6 urging him to stop the riot. The House select committee investigated the Capitol riot over the past month and proceeded to charge Meadows with criminal contempt of Congress for failing to obey a subpoena. Rep. Liz Cheney read out the text exchanges during the hearing. One was from Ingraham. “The president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home. … He is destroying his legacy.”
Another text sent by Hannity to Meadows that same day was: “Can he make a statement?… Ask people to leave the Capitol?”
See video of CNN’s reaction to the Axios report below.