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The View: Behind the Table

Alyssa Farah Griffin On Significance Of FCC Pressure Amid Threats To Jimmy Kimmel And Other Outlets

The View: Behind the Table

ABC News

Tv & Film

4.72.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2025

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Farah Griffin joins executive producer Brian Teta to discuss the backlash from both sides over FCC threats against Jimmy Kimmel and other media personalities and her takeaways from reading former Vice Pres. Kamala Harris’ new book, "107 Days." Then, she shares the advice she would give her high school self after asking Matthew McConaughey the same question on today's show. Have a question or want advice from Brian or a co-host? Leave us a message here: ⁠https://woobox.com/kaoojs⁠. Messages may be used on a future podcast. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Hello, Alyssa. Hello, Brian. It is Monday, and we are here on behind the table. Let's get right into it. We're both having a case of the Mondays, so let's bring the energy. Let's get it. Yeah, no, let's do it. There's a lot to talk about. You know what, it's never good for me when Sunday night football goes late because I am completely exhausted the next morning and the Giants.

0:44.3

All right. So today on the show, we jump in on the conversation about freedom of speech in light of both sides of the aisle, kind of uniting an outrage over the FCC threats against Jimmy Kimmel and other

0:55.1

media personalities. You stressed the fact that the pendulum can swing in the other direction when

1:00.3

Democrats are in charge. Tell me more about why this should matter to conservatives.

1:04.7

Yeah, because I mean, first and foremost, the reason it matters is the Constitution and the First

1:08.7

Amendment. And it's that to have a free society,

1:11.6

you need citizens, you need a press who can speak truth to power. That's the most important reason

1:16.7

that it matters. But I feel like sometimes, especially in the Trump era, the way to persuade

1:21.4

Republicans of things is to remind them that any overreach of power with the government right

1:26.7

now that they do

1:27.7

can be equally done to them when a Democrats in office.

1:31.4

And I've seen this on any number of things that, you know, I just saw it on the headlines,

1:36.5

but like this Intel deal, for example, that Trump decided that the federal government

1:41.3

was going to purchase a part of a privately owned company, well, publicly traded company. I feel like we'd be screaming socialism if a Democrat did this.

1:49.3

In this instance, I think Donald Trump came into office, was elected in large part from being

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