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The Lead with Jake Tapper

FCC Chair Credits Local TV Stations For Kimmel Suspension

The Lead with Jake Tapper

CNN

News

41.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Did we just get a new veiled threat from the FCC chairmen today? President Trump also weighed in, suggesting that network licenses could be pulled if they air what he views as mostly negative coverage of him.   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Tony Shalub loves bread.

0:02.0

On his new CNN original series, he's traveling the world to see how bread is the most delicious way to bring people and cultures together.

0:10.0

Tony Shalub, Breaking Bread, premieres Sunday, October 5th on CNN.

0:16.6

So, should other TV hosts be worried after Jimmy Kimball's suspension?

0:20.7

The lead starts right now.

0:22.6

Did we just get a new veiled threat from the FCC chairman today?

0:27.6

President Trump also weighing in suggesting network licenses could be pulled if they air what he views as mostly negative coverage of him.

0:36.6

Was the Kimmel move really just a business decision?

0:39.3

Plus, breaking this hour, RFK Jr.'s new vaccine recommendation panel

0:44.3

set to take a controversial vote this hour.

0:47.3

Could it drastically impact your health and what disease you and your family are protected against?

0:53.3

Also breaking brand new details about that ambush in Pennsylvania that took the lives of three

0:59.0

police officers and left two other officers critically injured.

1:07.0

Welcome to the lead.

1:09.5

I'm Phil Mattingly in for Jake Tapper. We're starting with the politics lead

1:13.1

and the outcry, the fallout over Disney's ABC, suspending Jimmy Kimmel's late night show

1:18.5

indefinitely. That after his Monday night monologue, specifically a joke about the Republican

1:24.0

response to the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Listen to a bit more of that for context here.

1:31.5

We hit some new lows over the weekend, with the Maga Gang desperately trying to characterize

1:36.6

this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything

1:41.4

they can to score political points from it.

1:46.7

In between the finger pointing, there was grieving.

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