Ratings crater for second Jan. 6 committee hearing

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New ratings data show that the second installment of hearings held by the Jan. 6 committee received only half of the views that its initial prime-time slot enjoyed.

According to reports, only 10 million people tuned into the second hearing Monday morning.

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Fox News, which didn’t air the initial hearing, received 1.5 million viewers on the Monday daytime hearing. MSNBC saw 1.3 million viewers tune in, while CNN boasted 653,000.

Last week’s heavily advertised first hearing, broadcast during prime-time hours on several major networks, received nearly 20 million viewers.

Asked about Dinesh D’Souza’s documentary on election fraud, 2000 Mules, during the Monday hearing, former Attorney General William Barr chuckled and said, “I haven’t seen anything since the election that changes my mind on that, including the 2000 Mules movie,” he said. “The premise that, you know, if you go buy a box, five boxes or whatever it was, you know that that’s a mule is just indefensible.”

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A third hearing scheduled for Wednesday was postponed Tuesday, which Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) said was due to “technical issues.” It will now be held Thursday.

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