Starting tonight, Jimmy Kimmel Live will be back on ABC stations nationwide. Late today, both Sinclair and NextStar announced they're ending their boycotts of Kimmel. Now, together, the station groups, which also pushed Disney to suspend Jimmy Kimmel last week.They own about 20% of all ABC stations. Joining us now is Cory Brett Schneider. He is co-host of the podcast The Oath and the Office and the author of the book The Presidents and the People.Also with us with us is Alvaro Badoya, a former commissioner ...

triumphantly returning to his show last night after staring down a government effort to censor and silence him. It's a Trump effort that first looked shockingly effective last week when corporate giant Disney gave in to the Trump FCC chair's blatantly unconstitutional demands. Demands that all legal experts who've seriously looked at this say would fail in court if they were tested in court.But they weren't cuz Disney first folded. Kimmel then stood strong, the censorship sparking a massive revolt that real ...

Open Society Foundations, which was founded by George Soros, said that a federal criminal probe into its operations without evidence of wrongdoing would amount to the Trump administration abusing its power and threatening free speech https://t.co/clGbD2s889 ...

With us we have former MSNBC host Chris Matthews. His Substack is entitled Heartball with Chris Matthews, an opinion writer at the New York Times. Mara Gay is with us. And former US ambassador to Denmark, Rufus Gford. He was senior aid to both President Obama and President Biden and served as chief of protocol for President Biden with experience planning United Nations events. We'll get to the latest uh out of the UN in just a moment with Rufus. Um Chris Matthews on Comey. Um looks like there's a a bit of a ...

The President posting on Truth Social this evening after reviewing the details of what he calls the unserious and ridiculous demands from Democrats. I've decided that no meeting with their congressional leaders could possibly be productive. Is that the right move right now. Well right now.Well, look, what the Democrats are trying to do is undo everything that we got and did in the big, beautiful bill, you know, the tax cut for working families. And so, no, that's a it's a nonstarter. You know, the Democrats ...

Okay, so last night, as I think all of you know, Jimmy Kimmel returned to ABC after the broadcaster's parent company, Disney, abruptly pulled his late night show last week. Now, that suspension, of course, followed Donald Trump's FCC chairman and total lackey, Brendan Carr, publicly warning ABC, "We can do this the easy way or the hard way." How direct is that. Now, since then, Brendan Carr and some administration allies have desperately tried to spin those comments as not a threat to use the government's r ...

[Applause] Jimmy Kimmel finally breaking his silence. The government threat to silence a comedian the president doesn't like is anti-American. Tonight, ABC saying Kimmel's return is now his highest rated episode in more than a decade.Kimmel addressed his suspension and conservative outrage to comments he made about Charlie Kirk's alleged shooter. I do want to make something clear because it's important to me as a human and that is you understand that it was never my intention to make light of the murder of ...

Jimmy Kimmel's choking up as he said he never intended to make light of the murder of a young man that his show is not important but that free speech is. Sounded crazy. Brendan Carr, the chairman of the FCC telling an American company, "We can do this the easy way or the hard way and that these companies can find ways to change conduct and take action on Kimmel or there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead." in addition to being a direct violation of the First Amendment, is not a particularly int ...

The FCC has a tradition of meddling where they shouldn't under many administrations, but it wasn't always like this. There was an FCC commissioner back in 2022 who worked under Joe Biden who was spot-on. He wrote, "President Biden is right. Political satire is one of the oldest and most important forms of free speech. It challenges those in power while using humor to draw more people into the discussion.That's why people in influential positions have always targeted it for censorship. You know who wrote tha ...

Lots to discuss with NBC News White House correspondent Monica Alba, NBC News entertainment correspondent Khloe Malas, media reporter and founder of Status, Oliver Darcy, and senior reporter for the bull work, Will Summer. So guys, it has been quite some time since a late night monologue has arrived with such significant political and cultural implications. Chloe, how did Jimmy Kimmel sort of thread the needle or balance all of those different pressures.First of all, Anna, it was an over 20 minute monologue ...