It's Thursday, September 18th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day. The show celebrating

yet another moment of free speech greatness under the Trump administration. In this example,

here's FCC chair Brendan Carr telling right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson that he could pressure

television networks to stop showing the ABC late-night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live because it made

President Donald Trump mad.

It's really sort of past time that a lot of these licensed broadcasters themselves

push back on Comcast and Disney and say, listen, we are going to preempt.

We're not going to run Kimmel anymore until you straighten this out because we, we licensed broadcaster,

are running the possibility of fines or license revocation from the FCC.

And just as we were set to record the show around 4 p.m. Pacific Wednesday, ABC announced

that it had pulled Jimmy Kimmel live, quote, indefinitely. The move comes after comments Kimmel made during his opening monologue Monday about Trump's reaction to the shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk went viral.

Interesting timing. We'll be revisiting this.

On today's show, Trump meets with British Prime Minister Kira Stamer after a lavish visit with

King Charles III, and the Federal Reserve finally cuts its key interest rate. But let's start with the FBI.

The investigation into the assassination of Charlie Kirk has raised a lot of questions, not just

about the alleged shooter, but about

the investigation into Kirk's death, and especially about the person at the head of the bureau

tasked with helping to find and capture suspects in acts of violence, not just in the Kurt case,

but across the country, FBI director Cash Patel. As I mentioned on the show yesterday,

Cash Patel was clearly not nominated to the position of FBI

director because of his deep grasp on the many issues facing federal law enforcement.

For example, here he is speaking Wednesday before the House Judiciary Committee about a horrifying

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