Good morning. I'm Taylor Wilson, and today is Friday, September 19th, 2025.

This is USA Today's The Excer.

Today, we dig into some renewed questions about free speech after Jimmy Kimmel was pulled off the air.

Plus, immigrants are being locked up

alone when Clayton Kirshaw announces his upcoming retirement from baseball.

President Donald Trump said overwhelming negative coverage of him by television networks

should be grounds for the Federal Communications Commission to revoke broadcast licenses.

I read someplace that the networks were 97% against me.

I got 97% negative, and yet I won it easily, when all seven, swing states, popular, but

whatever.

And then 97% against, they give me wholly bad with us to me, or press. I mean, they're 97% against. They give me only bad with us sleep or breasts.

I mean, they're getting a license.

I would think maybe their license should be taken away.

I thought it would be up to Brendan Carr.

Trump made the suggestion as he defended FCC chairman Brendan Carr for pressuring ABC

to pull comedian Jimmy Kimmel's late night show off the airwaves over comments Kimmel made about the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk. Kimmel was suspended indefinitely. Among Trump's renewed attacks on critics, he also said that protesters who yelled at him during a dinner in Washington, D.C., were a threat who could be jailed and declared the anti-fascist Antifa movement, a terrorist organization

whose funding he would try to track. As for Jimmy Kim, All-ABC's suspension of his show,

combined with threats from Trump officials to go after left-leaning organizations, they say,

have incited violence, has alarmed Democrats and First Amendment advocates over free speech

concerns in the wake of Kirk's shooting.

As for this latest chapter to the conversation on free speech and hate speech, I rang up

Tennessee and First Amendment reporter Angel Watham to discuss.

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