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The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

Trump Targets Broadcast Licenses

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

CNN

News

3.2865 Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

President Trump is now suggesting the FCC could crack down on TV networks for giving him “bad publicity.” Plus, with the Gaza ceasefire talks stalled, an adviser to Qatar's prime minister joins us to explain why he thinks there's “no validity” to peace negotiations between Israel and Hamas. And President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to finalize an agreement to keep the social media platform operating here in the United States.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Happening now, targeting broadcast licenses.

0:05.0

President Trump is now suggesting the FCC could crack down on TV networks for giving him, quote, bad publicity.

0:13.0

Plus, Gaza ceasefire talk stalled.

0:16.0

An advisor to Cutter's Prime Minister will join me live here in the Situation Room and explain why he thinks

0:22.6

there's quote no validity to peace negotiations between Israel and Hamas.

0:28.6

And later, a tentative TikTok deal.

0:31.6

President Trump and the Chinese President Xi Jinping are set to finalize an agreement to keep the social media platform operating

0:39.7

here in the United States.

0:41.8

Welcome to our viewers here in the U.S. and around the world.

0:45.3

I'm Wolf Blitzer.

0:46.5

Pamela Brown is off today, thundering across the media landscape.

1:04.4

Coming after ABC took Jimmy Kimmel's show off the air indefinitely after the FCC chair

1:10.4

suggested revoking TV affiliate licenses

1:13.6

because of Kimmel's comments in reference to the killing of Charlie Kirk.

1:18.6

Now the president is suggesting the federal government, the federal government,

1:22.6

could revoke the licenses of broadcast networks if they are, quote, against him. Let's listen. Listen

1:29.6

to this. Well, I read someplace that the networks were 97% against me. I get 97% negative,

1:38.7

and yet I won it easily when all seven states, popular, I won everything. I mean, they're getting a license.

1:46.1

I would think maybe their license should be taken away.

1:50.0

It will be up to Brendan Carr.

1:52.6

Brendan Carr is Trump's FCC chairman.

1:55.2

He threatened to pull the licenses of ABC TV affiliates

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