A basketball game turns up in Jack Smith's Senate hearing, and GMA's clip takes off

A short report on Eric Schmitt's questioning drew more in thirteen hours than the Rachael Ray, Zach Braff and Deals & Steals segments posted the same day.

Channel: Good Morning AmericaStory of October 1, 2026Trari Newsroom

Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 52,491 views a day, 12 times a normal first day on this channel (4,534).

Jack Smith hearing and Eric Schmitt

Good Morning America usually earns its views with recipes, bargains and celebrity sit-downs. On September 30 its most-watched new video came from a Senate hearing room instead.

"Jack Smith hearing and Eric Schmitt" is a short ABC News report on Tuesday's session with the former special counsel. The description calls the hearing a political fistfight, full of name-calling, with a curious accusation about a basketball game. The tags name Missouri senator Eric Schmitt, Amy Klobuchar and Katie Britt, and they also mention the Atlanta Hawks.

That basketball detail is what the comment section keeps coming back to. Many viewers point to an Iowa Hawkeyes women's game. Others make puns on the senator's name or reach for a Beatles song title.

The clip passed 37,000 views in thirteen hours. A new Good Morning America upload usually gathers about a tenth of that over a whole first day. The other segments posted beside it, including Rachael Ray's menopause-focused cookbook, Zach Braff on the Scrubs revival and a Deals & Steals roundup, are still in the low thousands.

The whole channel is running at nearly twice its normal daily pace. Among nearby talk and morning shows, Late Night with Seth Meyers and CBS Mornings are even further above their usual levels.

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The numbers

For a channel built on morning television, one hearing clip moved far faster than everything else it posted that day.

the video's first day

usual first day here

4,534

this video

52,491

subscribers

5,510,000

total views

3,936,485,455

views per day

2,074,995

typical day: 1,133,651

the video

views

37,723

likes

225

comments

147

days online

1

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

The Graham Norton Show

5,730,000

Good Morning America

5,510,000

Late Night with Seth Meye…

5,310,000

TODAY

5,110,000

CBS Mornings

3,320,000

The Onion

3,280,000

As of October 1, 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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