The debate continues over Disney's sudden decision to pull the ABC show Jimmy Kimmel live off the air indefinitely after a conservative backlash to his comments about Charlie Kirk's murder.

The chairman of the FCC, Brendan Carr, first suggested that ABC affiliates should pull Kimmel's show or face action from his agency. But Carr rejected accusations

that he was punishing free speech. Our goal and our obligation here is to make sure that

broadcasters are serving the public interest. And if there's local TV stations that don't think

that running that programming does it, then they have every right under the law in their contracts

to preempt it.

We again asked Chairman Carr to come on the news hour, but his office did not respond.

But there is also pushback coming from within the FCC itself.

Commissioner Anna Gomez has been very critical of Kimmel's suspension, and she joins us now.

Commissioner Gomez, thank you so much for being here.

What is your principal issue with how this all went down?

What concerns me is how this administration is using every lever of power

in order to bring broadcasters to heal, which is contrary to the First Amendment.

These threats are leading to these corporate parents capitulating to this administration's desire to control

both how the media portrays this administration and now apparently how comedians make jokes about

them, no matter whether you find them distasteful or not.

Just to remind our audience about the chronology here, Kimmel made his comments on Monday,

Chairman Carr made his comments, then two large owners of ABC stations. Neckstar and Sinclair both said

they would pull Kimmel's show. Both of those companies also

have major regulatory matters before the FCC. How much of a role do you think that plays in all of this?

Their desire to get the FCC's approval and thus maybe doing what the FCC wants.

So this is all a part of this administration's campaign of censorship and control.

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