Joining us now, senior editor at The Atlantic and host of Radio Atlantic, Hana Rosen, staff writer for The Atlantic and MSNBC political contributor Mark Lieovich, and presidential historian and professor of history at Rice University, Douglas Brinkley. Um, all right, speaking of backlash, let us also play a a little bit from Andrew Schultz's podcast. In terms of censorship, freedom of speech is is more under attack now, honestly, than I think it has ever been. >> I don't know if that's me being hyperbolic. ...

Elon Musk on cancel culture“I mean, that whole cancel culture and trying to stop freedom of speech and infringe upon, just in general, infringe upon people's personal freedoms. They just want state control, state control of what you say. They want to take away your guns. And the reason they want to take away your guns, it's like there's nothing you can do to oppose them. We just need to restore the fundamental elements of what made America great, which is freedom and opportunity.”Elon Musk (@elonmusk):@Eric ...

Yeah, Frank Colin, talk about that if you will that you have Disney now looking at two of its largest affiliate uh two two companies that carry the most number of affiliates saying even before they announce that they're going to take Jimmy Kimmel off the air at least temporarily that they're dropping the program altogether. What type of business pressure does that put on them. Especially when you have one of these two companies that's trying to get that's going to be needing to get the federal government's ...

DL, we thought of you exactly at this tough time for these issues. Thanks for joining me tonight. >> My No, my pleasure, man. My pleasure.>> Your reaction to ABC and Disney uh responding to the government pressure this way and pulling Jimmy Kimmel. Well, I think it's disingenuous to pretend like comedy hasn't remember I remember when um Saturday Night Live used to always lampoon Gerald Ford or when they when they uh uh talked about uh George Bush's misprononunciation of words or they talked about Bill Clint ...

Monica, the president just addressed all this at his press conference in the UK moments ago. Remind us what he said. Yeah, and overnight, Anna, he did celebrate this news when it broke. He was issuing a message late in the hours after that state banquet where he was in the UK and he reiterated that today saying that he was happy to see this news. Here's exactly what he said and we could talk about it more on the other side. Jimmy Kimmel was fired because he had bad ratings more than anything else. And he sa ...

🎯Bonchie (@bonchieredstate):Let me explain this to the leftists suddenly deeply concerned about cancel culture.Digging up decade old tweets of jokes or hacking a political donation to get someone fired is cancel culture.People getting fired for currently, openly cheering murder is not cancel culture. ...