Good evening. I'm William Brangham. I'm the Navaz and Jeff Bennett are away. On the

news hour tonight, comedian Jimmy Kimmel is taken off the air indefinitely after his comments about

Charlie Kirk's murder what the move says about free speech under the Trump administration.

An overhauled vaccine committee at the CDC, one that now includes vaccine skeptics,

changes the guidance for what shots children should get.

And why paying interest on the debt is becoming a bigger problem for the U.S. government.

When I look at our fiscal situation, the words that come to my mind are daunting, challenging,

difficult.

Welcome to the NewsHour. The political fallout from the murder of conservative activist Charlie Cook continues.

Last night, Disney suddenly suspended ABC's Jimmy Kimmel live following comments Kimmel made

about how President Trump's supporters were responding to Kirk's murder.

That suspension was cheered by the president and his allies, but has also raised concern of censorship and the future of the First Amendment.

Today, Democrats on Capitol Hill introduced a bill to protect free speech.

That's censorship. That's state speech control. That's not America.

In a fierce rebuke to Kimmel's suspension, Senate Democrats today accused the Trump administration of using Charlie Kirk's murder to silence critics.

It began four days ago.

ABC's late night host took jabs at Trump and the right over their weekend messaging about the suspect in Kirk's assassination.

We hit some new lows over the weekend with the Maga Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them

and doing everything they can to score political points from it.

That monologue aired after a weekend when Utah's Republican governor had suggested the suspect had leftist

ideology, but the day before prosecutors and the suspect's mother echoed that same belief.

Intent to seek the death penalty. Then yesterday, some sharp criticism from the chairman of the FCC,

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