Jack Smith before the Senate, in full, gives Face the Nation a weekday crowd

The complete hearing drew about ten times a normal first day for the Sunday show's channel, while most big news channels ran below their usual pace.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 111,714 views a day, 10 times a normal first day on this channel (10,788).

Jack Smith testifies before Senate Judiciary Committee | full video

"Jack Smith testifies before Senate Judiciary Committee | full video" is exactly what its title says: the whole session, posted on Tuesday by Face the Nation. Eleven hours later it had passed 70,000 views.

For this channel, that is a pace well outside the routine. A new upload usually finishes its first day with around ten thousand views. This one is on course for about ten times that. It is also the third time in a few days that Face the Nation has had a video break away, after the Pezeshkian interview, Senator Kennedy's 'spending porn' line and the 'Love Me' ad. This time it is not the program's own Sunday material. It is a Senate hearing, shown in full.

Smith is the former special counsel who led the federal cases against Donald Trump, so his appearance before the committee was always going to draw interest. Other channels posted the same hearing, in clips and in full. The broadcasters around Face the Nation, NPR and Fox News Clips among them, were drawing fewer views than usual, and this upload went the other way.

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The numbers

Here is how the full hearing compares with a typical first day on Face the Nation's channel.

the video's first day

usual first day here

10,788

this video

111,714

subscribers

821,000

total views

474,734,425

views per day

-48,951

typical day: 632,382

the video

views

73,222

likes

464

comments

83

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

BBC Politics

896,000

NPR

890,000

Radio Free Europe/Radio L…

874,000

Fox News Clips

850,000

A Current Affair

836,000

Face the Nation

821,000

As of September 30, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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