Jack Smith defends investigations into Trump during tense US Senate hearing

What the coverage shows

Most outlets frame the story as Jack Smith’s Senate Judiciary Committee testimony defending his Trump investigations, with Reuters, AP, NBC, CBS, CNN, ABC, and the Washington Post all emphasizing his refusal to back down and the GOP questioning around it. PBS NewsHour leans into a clip-by-clip hearing format, while The Hill and The Independent highlight especially sharp Republican clashes and insults. Fox News is the outlier in foregrounding records involving Fox News and other media communications, and the Guardian and 60 Minutes are the only outlets here to single out Smith’s remark that Lindsey Graham would likely have been a witness.

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