Hello there.

I'm Chuck Todd.

This is a bit of a special little update.

I guess we could call it an addendum to the most recent episode of the Chuck Todd cast.

When I taped, we had not learned of what was going on between the FCC, Disney, Jimmy Kimmel, Next Star, and everything that's going on.

And I think the, I just wanted to give it some context.

I'll be honest.

I go back and forth about how much we should be focusing on the media problems in this country

and the larger issue of that versus our political problems and our political divide.

But the fact is that they're all intertwined now.

But I wanted to put some context around why,

because I've even had questions of members of my own family sort of like, wait a minute,

why is what, what is, you know, I'll just answer this basic question. You know, Disney can decide whether or not they want Jimmy Kimmel. What's, you know, and I think this, what makes why so

many folks are up in arms, right? It's not just folks on the left, but civil libertarians,

frankly, across the spectrum are so alarmed by this. It's the sequence of events on how this is

done. Because I'm going to make a confession. I didn't hear anything that late night did on Monday night about Charlie Kirk, because I wasn't seeking it out.

I wasn't interested.

I don't have the same.

I see clips of late nights.

You know, this is part of the economics of late night, right?

I'm just like too many other people for the economics of late night.

I just wait for the clips the next morning. We started this back in the old days of the hotline.

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