On Thursday, Fox News' evening shows played live footage of Trump's impeachment trial for just 22 seconds

Rep. Adam Schiff gave an impassioned plea regarding Trump's behavior. Fox News didn't cover a second of it live.

Written by John Whitehouse

Research contributions from Nikki McCann Ramirez & John Kerr

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Fox News has been harshly criticized for its obvious attempts to distract from, undermine, and ignore the impeachment trial of Donald Trump currently happening in the Senate.

The network reached a new low on Thursday, January 23, when it showed the trial live during its evening programming (between 7 p.m and 11 p.m. EST) for a total of just 22 seconds.

Here's a compilation of all the live coverage Fox viewers saw:

To the extent Fox News viewers saw any of the impassioned closing of Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), it was filtered through what Fox hosts said about it. Here's part of what Fox News did not show viewers in real time:

Former Republican Rep. Justin Amash (I-MI) said on Twitter that every American should watch Schiff's closing. The most powerful people at Fox clearly felt otherwise.