Welcome to the beat, everyone. Really nice, always catching up in the cold there briefly. We have,

though, right now the breaking news that in this major reversal, Disney will bring Jimmy Kimmel back.

That is a long ways from how they sounded last week, and that will be tomorrow. Disney and ABC announcing

Kimmel goes back on the air despite these government Trump efforts to silence him tomorrow.

Here is the statement. I'm going to read you exactly what Disney said so you can make sense of it

yourself. Last Wednesday, we made the decision, these Disney executives say, to quote, suspend

production on the show, referring to Kimmel, to avoid further inflaming a tense situation at an

emotional moment for our country.

They continue today, quote, we have spent the last days having thoughtful conversations with Jimmy,

and after those conversations, we reached the decision to return the show on Tuesday.

So that is the news, and that's how they're putting it.

Of course, there's a lot more to this, and we're going to get into that right now.

Donald Trump's FCC chair, the government, set this in motion. Nobody who's followed

this really denies the fact that this was the government demanding censorship and Disney and ABC

responding, caving, issuing an indefinite suspension that at the time was described as

indefinite. It certainly wasn't described as three days. It's just about the number of Kimmel shows

that have been suspended, the Wednesday, Thursday, Monday, and he's back tomorrow. So this is a big

change. The government wanted to silence Kimmel. And it seemed the night that this began, the news breaking

actually in this hour, that they were getting somewhere with that. So now, five days later,

Disney's decision to restore Kimmel's show, to reverse course on what they said was the

initially right thing. Now, the opposite, apparently, is what they think is right, whether that means right

for ABC and its standards, or right for Disney as a corporation, or write in the broader

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