That is all in on this Wednesday night. It was a doozy today. A briefing with Jen Saki starts right now. Good evening, Jen.

Oof. I mean, Chris, I know you probably had a different show plan tonight. I had a different show plan.

You talked about the CDC. We're definitely going to talk about that. Lots of people care about that. I care about that. You care about that.

But the news about Jimmy Kimmel, I think, is a pretty watershed moment. I think we all

need to be talking about. We actually, and it's not just a media story. I know you agree with me

on this. It's not just a media story. It's a democracy story. It's a freedom of speech story.

It's so many things. And I've been thinking a lot today about how I lived through years of

answering questions from a lot of these network journalists, people who ask tough questions. Sometimes I was pissed off at them. That's part of what we do. And this is threatening that. So it's a warrant on that. We actually heard from, and this happens to you all the time too, I know, we heard from Governor Pritzker, who happens to be in town tonight. So he has some thoughts on this. He's going to come

join us on set shortly. It tells you a lot about how this isn't just a media story. It's much

bigger. Yeah. I mean, it's definitely not just a media story. Can you criticize the leader of the

country without state sanction?

That's a pretty essential question.

I'm going to keep doing it, but, you know.

Ask the Kremlin-run media that's following Putin around, and they will tell you no.

So there's that.

Chris, it's a doozy.

I will, I'll see you tomorrow. All right.

Okay. As I was just referencing there, we've changed up our show a bit in the last hour or so.

And we're starting tonight with, of course, the late breaking news that ABC has just announced that they are pulling late night host Jimmy Kimmel's show off the air indefinitely.

And I know you've probably been watching this news. You've been following this news.

And it's not just about the news today, as I was just discussing with Chris.

And first of all, if this is giving you deja vu, if you feel like you have heard this story before,

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