John Oliver blasted Disney’s Bob Iger over Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension, warning that appeasing Trump only feeds his bullying: "Giving the bully your lunch money doesn’t make him go away—he just comes back hungrier." Oliver also notes that Trump has threatened Fallon and Meyers, "Do it NBC."

Bill Maher: "America is so misogynistic, they wouldn't vote for a woman leader — Pakistan did." Joe Manchin: "The parties control the primaries…160 million voted, only 20 million decided who you get to vote for."

Bill Maher: "There are gay people in the Trump administration." Alex Wagner: "Yeah." Maher: "One of them's always fighting." Wagner: "Scott Bessent."

Bill Maher's "five stages of grief just for mass shootings" "Someone on your side definitely did it." "This theory I saw on the internet proves I'm right. "Fuck you, you're why everything is terrible." "I know you are. What am I?" "And, please don't be the same ethnic group is me."

Joe Manchin on Bill Maher: "I think there should be an independent party." Alex Wagner: "We are a long way away from 2028... which, by the way [democrats are] the pro-democracy party. It is a tent big enough to have Liz Cheney and AOC."

Alex Wagner: "The Charlie Kirk assassination needs to be reframed as an issue of how our democracy actually functions and survives. We cannot be assassinating people who are different from us, who believe different things. Full stop."

Bill Maher: "Ted Cruz said, 'I hate what Jimmy Kimmel said, but if the government gets in the business of saying what we don't like what you, the media, have said, it will end badly for conservatives'." "I would add, Ted, for the country."

Alex Wagner: "Less than 24 hours after Charlie Kirk was assassinated, [Trump] was blaming the radical left, was not trying to bring the country together." Bill Maher: Okay, but here's a test... say this about the other side." Wagner: "Joe Biden did not do that. Barack Obama did not do that."

Bill Maher: I'll tell you a journalist who's on TV who did not get fired... Brian Kilmeade, he's on Fox News. They're talking about the homeless, his co-host says... either you take the resources that we're going to give you or you're going to be locked up in jail... Brian says, or just kill them.

Bill Maher saves Joe Manchin after he says, "200 years have been pretty good. We had a little rough spot in the Civil War, but we got through that." Maher: "Let;s back that up,... you were a politician going for a joke, which they're bad at."

Bill Maher: "We've moved the goalposts so much now... that we forget that as abhorrent it would be to mock somebody's death, even if you disagree with them... not illegal." "This idea that we can't even utter his name like he's the Prophet Muhammad — peace and blessings be upon him — No,"

Joe Manchin: "Ted Cruz said, this guy, the FCC [Chair], is crazy. You can't do that. Get rid of him." Bill Maher: "Here's the ultimate irony. Charlie Kirk said, 'hate speech does not exist legally in America.' Could you guys at least honor the person you're insisting that we honor?"

Bill Maher: "These people do not understand free speech at all. Mike pence, 'the First Amendment of the Constitution protects against government censorship of individuals. The First Amendment, though, does not protect entertainers who say crass or thoughtless things.' Fuck yeah it does."

Bill Maher: "Free speech is not absolute. You can slander, libel, direct threats, porn, copyright infringement, inciting violence. That's not what Jimmy Kimmel did." Alex Wagner: "The president of the United States that explicitly, 'Jimmy's next'."

Bill Maher: "What we also see is people being just taken away who are just regular day workers... What's going on there? Don't you think it's been a little heavy-handed?" Tom Homan: "If you're in the country illegally, you're not off the table." It has nothing to do with deporting criminals.

Bill Maher fact-checks Trump on the lie that Biden let 25 million people in illegally. Maher: "You said it was 10 million that came under Joe Biden." Tom Homan: "Yeah." Maher: "Trump and England said today it was 25." Homan: "No, 25 illegal here in the United States."

Members of Congress react to Alex Acosta's testimony. "I found him to be completely non credible as a witness." "He would not admit that Mr. Epstein received a sweetheart deal." "He refused to accept what those survivors have told us." "He has been clearly involved in the broader cover up."

Former Disney CEO Michael Eisner.

Trump says that broadcast networks airing negative stories about him is illegal.

MSNBC played a clip of George Carlin talking about the FCC. A classic.

Montage of late-night talk shows defending Jimmy Kimmel.

CNN shows clips of presidents blatantly lying on camera. Nixon: "I'm not a crook." Reagan: "We did not trade weapons or anything else for hostages." Clinton: "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." Trump: "I have nothing to do with Russia."

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David Letterman on Jimmy Kimmel: "We all see where this is going, correct? It's managed media... you can't go around firing somebody because you're fearful or trying to suck up to an authoritarian criminal administration in the Oval Office."

"It's unbelievable to me that so-called conservatives and Republicans are okay — those who say they believe in limited government —with the FCC, a government agency, telling broadcast stations what they can broadcast and what they can't. What kind of limited government is that?" — Jeff Flake

Brianna Keilar: "Today, Israel's finance minister is claiming that there are talks underway with the US about dividing up war-torn Gaza in a real estate 'bonanza'." Bezalel Smotrich: "Paid a lot of money for this war... We've done the demolition phase.. now we need to build." 😬

“When you have a network and you have evening shows and all they do is hit Trump, that’s all they do — if you go back, I guess they haven’t had a conservative one in years, or something — when you go back and take a look, all they do is hit Trump. They’re licensed. They’re not allowed to do that.”

JD Vance in February 2025: "Our own government encouraged private companies to silence people...Under Donald Trump's leadership, we may disagree with your views, but we will fight to defend your right to offer it in the public square."

Daniel Dale debunks all of Trump's false claims. "That was like a mini greatest hits list of claims from President Trump that have been debunked for months, some of them for years." - Lost 2020 election - Inflation is rising - Ukraine war did not cost US $350B - US importers pay tariffs, not China

Brendan Carr: "I think there's a lot of commentary on Late Night having shifted dramatically over the last ten years. It used to be that they would go for laugh lines, and it's shifted to going for applause lines... they started becoming court clerics and enforcing a very narrow world view."

Instead of the angry finger-pointing, can we just for one day agree that it is horrible and monstrous to shoot another human? On behalf of my family, we send love to the Kirks and to all the children, parents and innocents who fall victim to senseless gun violence.

Looking forward to Elon chiming in on Jimmy Kimmel.

Scott Jennings getting owned by Jeff Jarvis discussing Jimmy Kimmel. Jennings: "Do you consider that to be propaganda? Is it good for a business?" Jarvis: "You used the words free speech before. Do you consider that free speech?" Jennings: "I consider it to be speech."

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr went on Fox News and said Trump exposed legacy broadcasters to market forces—and local affiliates are pushing back. Late-night TV "went from laugh lines to applause lines," becoming "court jesters" enforcing a narrow ideology. What a clown.

This is the real reason Jimmy Kimmel is being taken off the air. Brian Stelter: "Nexstar already owns lots of TV stations. It wants to merge with Tegna, which owns lots of other stations. In order to do that, it needs Brandon Carr, the FCC Chair's, permission."

Anderson Cooper reads Trump's post about designating Antifa as a "major terrorist organization." Daniel Goldman: "I hope he can first define what Antifa is because there is no Antifa organization... He's using the Charlie Kirk murder as a pretext to go after people that he disagrees with."

MAGA and Republicans don't give two shits about Charlie Kirk. They are using his tragic death to push a political agenda.

Brian Stelter reached out to FCC Chairman Brendan Carr for a comment on Jimmy Kimmel and his only response was a GIF from The Office. These are not serious people.

Kara Swisher on Jimmy Kimmel: "Nexstar is trying to do a very large merger with Tegna, and so they will do whatever it takes." Anderson Cooper: "That's an important point, because that merger would require the approval of the FCC."

These are the comments that led to Jimmy Kimmel being taken off the air. "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, in between the finger-pointing."

David Frum on Jimmy Kimmel: "This is not cancel culture because it's not culture. It's state repression. It's an order from the government. Here is the script, you must read, if you do not read it, you will be taken off the air."

Wesley Hunt asks Kash Patel about Matthew Thomas Crooks, the shooter responsible for the assassination attempt on President Trump's life: "I didn't get an answer from Chris Wray... Would you please respond to these questions?" Patel: "As soon as the trial's over." (Crooks was killed)

Jared Moskowitz: "We just heard that there were no riots on the right. We're literally sitting in the building where there was a giant riot by supporters of the president, the right."

Lucy McBath: "I'd like to introduce into the record three unanimous consent requests... FBI Using Polygraphs to Test Officials' Loyalty... Kash Patel Knowingly Broke Law When Firing Top Officials, Lawsuit Alleges..."

Sydney Kamlager-Dove: "Dylann Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered nine black parishioners in Charleston in 2015. Do you deny this?" Kash Patel: "I'm sorry, Dylann Roof? Kamlager-Dove: "You're head of the FBI... It was national news."

Pramila Jayapal: "I think what happened, Mr. Patel, is that suddenly you discovered that Donald Trump's name was all over these files and you started a giant cover-up."

Ted Lieu plays a clip of Michael Wolff claiming he saw photographs of Trump with "girls of an uncertain age at Epstein's Palm Beach house." Lieu: "Are there any photos showing Donald Trump with girls of an uncertain age?" Kash Patel: "No." (Pay attention to his demeanor when he answers)

Nobody believes Kash Patel doesn't know how many times Trump's name appears in the Epstein files.

Thomas Massie: "Were you present when the AG, had the White House event when she released the binders to the social media influencers? Kash Patel: "I was. Yes."

Hank Johnson: "Why are you hiding pedophiles? Why are you shielding pedophiles? Why are you protecting pedophiles?" Kash Patel: "That is maybe the most offensive thing you could say to me."