FCC chairman unconvincingly claims he never threatened ABC station licenses

Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) told NBC’s Meet the Press that Carr threatening Disney was “absolutely inappropriate,” and that “Brendan Carr has got no business weighing in on this.” Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) posted on X that “my colleague, Ted Cruz, said it looked just like Goodfellas. As a First Amendment guy myself, I think he’s probably got it right. You don’t have to like what somebody says on TV to agree that the government shouldn’t be getting involved here.”

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