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The Trish Regan Show

BREAKING: Trump‘s FCC Targets Disney CEO Bob Iger Over ABC News Alleged Misconduct

The Trish Regan Show

Trish Regan

News Commentary, News, Daily News, Business, Politics, Business News

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Disney's CEO Gets a Letter

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0:00.0

Merry Christmas. I hope you had a terrific holiday. We get some big news to celebrate here on the channel.

0:09.0

Upwards of 500,000 subs. How do you like that? You guys, amazing. Amazing. We did it. Now we get a new goal, right? A million.

0:17.0

In the meantime, a few things have been going on. Let me just say life is getting

0:23.3

kind of uncomfortable over there at Disney and ABC News because the new head of the FCC won

0:29.2

Brendan Carr working for Donald Trump is already getting started. The inauguration hasn't even happened yet, and yet Brendan Carr is firing

0:40.8

off letters to the CEO of Disney Bob Eager saying that, you know, this isn't cool, that ABC has basically

0:48.9

had this erosion in public trust. In other words, the news network is a problem. Take a look at this, you guys.

0:56.9

Okay, so just a couple of days ago, just before the holiday and about 10 days after, they settled

1:02.1

that $16 million suit there. Well, it was actually a multi-billion dollar suit, but they settled for $16 million.

1:12.4

$15 million to the Trump Library and another million bucks go into the lawyers for Donald Trump.

1:17.3

Well, Brendan Carr says, you know what, there's this erosion in public trust, hey, ABC,

1:22.9

and I'm kind of concerned about it, especially when it comes to licensing all your little networks all over the country. They have an affiliate system you see there at ABC News, and so he wrote that, quote,

1:34.9

ABC's own conduct has certainly contributed to this erosion in public trust. For instance, ABC News

1:40.7

recently agreed to pay $50 million to President Trump's future presidential foundation

1:45.3

and museum and an additional $1 million in attorney's fees to settle a defamation case.

1:50.7

In other words, he's able to use that.

1:53.2

You see against Eiger and against ABC.

1:58.2

So it's not like they're retreating as a result of that 16 million that they're getting.

2:02.9

No, in fact, this actually gives them more ammunition. In other words, the public is so sick of you guys.

2:08.2

You do such stupid stuff. You admitted that you do stupid stuff. You admitted it. You got the

2:14.8

stupid guy on air that keeps making allegations, the stuff that didn't

2:18.8

happen that's not true that the judge never said Donald Trump was guilty of. And so George

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