Must Watch TV: Liz Cheney to Appear on Fox News After Slamming Network on CNN

Former Congresswoman Liz Cheney was once a paid contributor for Fox News. But in her new book, Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning, she is unsparing in her criticism of the network and the role she believes it played in enabling former President Donald Trump’s false election claims and the January 6 riot.

Like every writer of a political memoirs, she has appeared on the cable news networks in the service of book sales, with one notable exception: Fox News.

In Thursday’s Reliable Sources newsletter, CNN’s Oliver Darcy asked rhetorically, “Will Cheney appear on Fox News during her book tour? As she noted, she was once a paid contributor at the network. But now she is, effectively, persona non grata.”

But Mediaite has learned that Cheney will be appearing on Fox, for an interview with Bret Baier on Special Report later this month.

An interview between Cheney and Baier will be a notable one. During a Thursday appearance on The Lead With Jake Tapper, Cheney responded to Baier, who has dismissed concerns that Trump would refuse to leave the White House if re-elected. Cheney told Jake Tapper:

Well, I would say first in response to Bret, he already tried to seize power once. So, you know, it shouldn’t be hard for anybody to imagine that he will do it again. And that’s exactly what he was doing on January 6, and no president has ever done that before. With respect to sort of the mechanics of how he would do this, Donald Trump will refuse to obey the rulings of the courts, he’s already made clear that he will not abide by the rulings of the courts. And if you think about that, in the context of elections, you know, he can — and he’s also, frankly, already suggested postponing elections.

She also went after Fox News, lamenting the loss of Charles Krauthammer before saying “there’s no question” that Fox News “played a damaging and dangerous role” in spreading disinformation about the January 6 attack on the Capitol and not debunking election lies, particularly by Trump.

Now, Cheney will be appearing on Fox. She was booked earlier this week to appear on the December 18 edition of Special Report.

Liz Cheney was long a ubiquitous presence on Fox News. Still, since her lead role in the House Select Committee that investigated Trump’s role in fake electors and Jan 6, her appearances on the network have effectively zeroed out.

Her December 18 appearance will almost certainly be must-watch TV.