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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, the Federal Communications

Commission.

I mean, look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way.

Trump appointed Brendan Carr threatened federal action if local ABC affiliates didn't do something

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