It's Official: Trump is Investigating Whoopi
Rogue Energy
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3.0 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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FCC Chairman Brendan Carr confirmed — on two separate occasions — yesterday that an "enforcement action" has been initiated against ABC's "The View." The investigation was triggered based on the same rule and the same guest that put CBS and Stephen Colbert publicly at odds this week.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.2 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.2 | It is Thursday, February 19th, and it is official. |
| 0:12.7 | President Trump is investigating Whoopi Goldberg. |
| 0:16.9 | But to be honest with you, I thought it was going on already. |
| 0:19.7 | And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. There's been a lot of FCC and back and forth and revoking licenses that don't like this daytime show. Don't like this nighttime show. We got kind of official word, but are you surprised? I swear they were going after the view already. Well, they've implied it. They've suggested it, but it was confirmed officially by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. |
| 0:41.5 | And that's a big deal for him to come. |
| 0:43.5 | Robes, the word investigation and the view are being used in the same sentence by the FCC chair. |
| 0:49.4 | That is a first. |
| 0:51.4 | Is that, it's not terrifying. |
| 0:53.5 | It's expected. Well terrifying, it's expected. |
| 0:54.7 | Well, now it's expected. |
| 0:56.1 | I would say a couple years ago, the idea of that would be terrifying or concerning |
| 1:00.6 | and potentially changing the landscape of daytime television and nighttime television as well. |
| 1:06.7 | And that is what we're looking at right now, a seismic shift in how daytime shows can and will operate in the future and what we will be seeing and consuming in late night talk shows as well. |
| 1:19.6 | So let's clear through all the clutter you've been hearing in the back and forth. |
| 1:23.3 | And can you name another FCC chair that there's ever been besides Brendan Carr, who seems to be the most famous ever at this point. |
| 1:31.1 | But he has been making a lot of headlines having to do with licenses. |
| 1:34.0 | Jimmy Kimmel, Colbert, CB, you just go through the line. |
| 1:37.7 | So let's get through and tell you what's happening now and why this is a big deal. |
| 1:41.1 | It's because the FCC chairman, Brendan Carr, has confirmed for the first time publicly |
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