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Speaker 1: Richard, good morning, Good morning, May. So what happened to

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Speaker 1: the conservative movements love of free speech?

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Speaker 2: That is one of many, many, many questions in what

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Speaker 2: is story topping the news everywhere here except on American ABC,

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Speaker 2: the network that actually suspended the Jimmy Kimmel late night

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Speaker 2: comedy show and surprise surprise reactions here sharply, very sharply partisan.

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Speaker 2: Trump said before leaving London, Jimmy Kimmel was fired because

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Speaker 2: he had bad ratings, more than anything else, and he

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Speaker 2: said a horrible thing about a great gentleman known as

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Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk. Well, no, Kimmel has not been fired as yet,

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Speaker 2: he suspended indefinitely. We'll see how that plays. And his

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Speaker 2: comments last Tuesday, your time is not about Charlie Kirk, say,

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Speaker 2: but about some Republicans exploiting the killing. Here again is

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Speaker 2: part of what kim said.

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Speaker 3: Maggie Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered

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Speaker 3: Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and

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Speaker 3: do everything they can to score political points from it.

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Speaker 2: So this was right after the assassination, when some like Trump, Ainte,

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Speaker 2: Stephen Miller and Steve Bannenworth suggesting the country was in

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Speaker 2: a sort of war. Should Kimmel have said anything even

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Speaker 2: in that environment. No, it was inappropriate, says former Fox

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Speaker 2: host Heroldo Rivera.

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Speaker 4: Jimmy Kimmel owes the family of Charlie Kirk and apology, and

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Speaker 4: it's wrong to overthink it and make it about government

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Speaker 4: and censorship and these other issues.

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Speaker 2: Now, former President Obama is speaking out now saying this

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Speaker 2: is the mega win, embracing cancel culture, the point you

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Speaker 2: were making off the top there and the very thing

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Speaker 2: they slammed for years. He says, the Trump team is

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Speaker 2: taking it to a quote new and dangerous level. Trump

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Speaker 2: denies it. Here's a bit more of the story. The

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Speaker 2: Kimmel suspension came soon after the head of the FCC,

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Speaker 2: the Federal Communications body, Brendan Carr, said the Kimmel remarks

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Speaker 2: appear to be quote some of the sickest conduct possible.

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Speaker 2: That is far from a universal interpretation, said Car, though.

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Speaker 5: I mean, look, we can do this the easy way

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Speaker 5: or the hard way. These companies can find ways to

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Speaker 5: change conduct, to take action frankly on Kimmel, or you know,

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Speaker 5: there's gonna be additional work for the FCC ahead.

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Speaker 2: Two of the biggest owners of ABC affiliates, Next Star

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Speaker 2: in Sincla then said they would pull the Kimmel Show,

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Speaker 2: and soon after the ABC network, facing this, said they

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Speaker 2: would suspend Kimmeld. Now next Doar is trying to put

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Speaker 2: together a six point two billion US dollar acquisition of

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Speaker 2: a group called Tegner, and to do that they must

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Speaker 2: have the approval yes of the government, the FCC. This

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Speaker 2: recalls what happened when late night hosts Stephen Colbert on

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Speaker 2: CBS was sacked when the FCC approved the sale of

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Speaker 2: the network and other paramount properties to Skidance, which is

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Speaker 2: controlled by the family of the richest person in the world,

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Speaker 2: Larry Elson, pro Trump billionaire. That approval only came after

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Speaker 2: Trump was paid sixteen million dollars US for claiming that

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Speaker 2: the Sixteen Minutes TV show had wrongly edited an interview

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Speaker 2: with Kamala Harris. Most saw that trump legal claim as

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Speaker 2: pretty weak. CBS did modifight. They agreed to put in

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Speaker 2: a Trump supporter as well to monitor for future billet bias.

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Speaker 2: Than Just days ago, Larry Elson moved in on CNN

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Speaker 2: and HBO, seeking to become the biggest media magnet in

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Speaker 2: the US. Then after that came news about TikTok, the

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Speaker 2: Chinese owned app that was banned as a security risk.

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Speaker 2: But Trump just announcing a takeover deal which gives Americans

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Speaker 2: an eighty percent share in TikTok. Those Americans are Yes,

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Speaker 2: Larry Ellison, at another Trump, Dona, Marc Andreesen. So if

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Speaker 2: all this happens, Mike, the Murdoch family would control Fox News,

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Speaker 2: the Wall Street Journal, the New York Post, while Twitter, TikTok, CBS,

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Speaker 2: CNN and more would be owned by the Ellison family

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Speaker 2: and the Washington Post owned by Jeff Bezos. It would

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Speaker 2: mark a considerable consolidation of media power in support of

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Speaker 2: the current US administration.

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Speaker 1: Have a good week it, Mike, appreciate it, and do

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Speaker 1: not forget the name silver Lake. As I mentioned on

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Speaker 1: the program yesterday, as regards that TikTok investment, silver Lake

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Speaker 1: directly tied and of course with the New Zealand Rugby Union.

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