Fired CBS correspondent will testify before Congress

Catherine Herridge, the former news correspondent for CBS, is going to testify before the U.S. House of Representatives. 

The New York Post reports that Herridge is scheduled to appear before the House Judiciary Committee - specifically the committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution and Limited Government - at 9:30 a.m. on April 11.

Herridge's testimony will come during a committee hearing that has been titled, Fighting for a Free Press: Protecting Journalists and their Sources. 

The hearing, according to the Post, has the potential to be explosive.

The controversial firing

You, the reader, may be more familiar with Herridge for her days at Fox News.

This relationship continued until 2019, when Herridge left Fox and joined CBS News as a senior investigative correspondent.

Herridge has become well-known for her reporting on the investigations that have been launched into the Biden family. She is particularly known for her reporting on the infamous laptop of Hunter Biden.

Herridge was fired this past February, and this made national headlines for some of the allegations that have been made about the firing.

The Washington Examiner reports:

Her exit made headlines after several reports indicated that her former employer “seized” her items, including confidential source information, upon her termination . . . The House Judiciary Committee opened an inquiry into the matter, and CBS News responded by adamantly denying that the network seized Herridge’s items and asserting that nothing was unusual about her exit, according to a letter obtained by the Washington Examiner.

Looking forward to Herridge's testimony

CBS has yet to reveal why it decided to fire Herridge. Instead, the network has claimed that Herridge's firing was part of a company-wide layoff that saw the exit of about 5% of the network's domestic staff.

When Herridge appears before Congress, it is expected that she will finally open up about her firing from CBS. Up until now, she has been mostly silent on the subject.

Herridge has also been in the news for another reason.

The Examiner reports that Herridge " is also in the midst of appealing a judge’s decision in February to hold her in civil contempt for refusing to unmask the source of a series of reports she did at Fox News on a scientist’s alleged ties to the Chinese military."

The judge, as a result, imposed a penalty on Herridge that requires her to pay $800 per day until she provides the name of the source. The fine, however, is currently paused while the matter is heard on appeal.