Fox, ABC News to Provide Special Coverage of Impeachment Rules Vote
Fox News Channel and ABC will both be breaking into regular programming to provide special coverage of the House vote Thursday establishing some rules for its ongoing impeachment inquiry.
Fox News said it would be providing "continuous" live coverage of the vote, anchored by Fox News Sunday anchor Chris Wallace and The Story's Martha MacCallum. Joining them will be The Daily Briefing’s and The Five's Dana Perino, and political analyst and The Five co-host Juan Williams.
ABC had no comment, but a source on background confirmed ABC News would cover the vote, but no word yet on how.
Related: C-SPAN Launches Impeachment Coverage Page
The White House has branded the rules resolution evidence that the inquiry has been working on "an illegitimate sham from the start as it lacked any proper authorization by a House vote....This resolution does nothing to change the fundamental fact that House Democrats refuse to provide basic due process rights to the Administration."
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Contributing editor John Eggerton has been an editor and/or writer on media regulation, legislation and policy for over four decades, including covering the FCC, FTC, Congress, the major media trade associations, and the federal courts. In addition to Multichannel News and Broadcasting + Cable, his work has appeared in Radio World, TV Technology, TV Fax, This Week in Consumer Electronics, Variety and the Encyclopedia Britannica.