Alvaro Bedoya

had a merger at its core.

You had Colbert getting, people forget this, Colbert getting canceled a year after his contract ended, right before the Paramount Skydance acquisition goes through.

You have Kimmel getting pulled off the air around this Nexstar Tegna acquisition that required special FCC approval.

And now you have this happening to Tallarico on Colbert,

as Paramount's trying to woo not just Warner Brothers, but the president.

And so as long as these companies just keep on gobbling up each other, as long as we don't break them up, to be really honest with you, each of those is going to give people like Brendan Carr, who is a sycophant, the hooks to get into our free press in this country.

Look, a lot of people watch your show.

A lot of people are still on legacy media, and it's important they get access to a free press as well.

Yeah, look, let me say two things here.

First of all, this equal time rule is a pretext.

It is a complete and total pretext.

Since Phil Donahue, 1984 to Jay Leno in the 90s, the Federal Communications Commission has had a clear understanding that exactly this kind of interview is a pretext.

has been exempt from the equal time rule.

Now, January 26th comes around, Mr. Carr starts waving around this new guidance that if he, in his soul wisdom, determines that there's a partisan purpose here, he may be able to shut this stuff down.

And so this is a total pretext.

But I want to get back to something that Clay was saying about hope.

Because it is really important that people who are looking at this saying, what the heck is going on here?

Don't just sit on our hands.

Because there's a lot of things that our elected officials can do here.

So Attorney General Rob Bonta in California, he's an AG with a lot of staff, a lot of resources.