Brendan Carr

And they created exceptions for what are known as bonafide news programs.

So if you're a bonafide news program, Congress was thinking about Meet the Press and different programs like that.

that you're just actually doing sort of journalistic work, you're not trying to put a thumb on the scale for a candidate, you're just trying to interview someone with normal journalistic questions, you don't have to abide by equal time.

Okay, flash forward.

Over the last 30 or 40 years, everybody came to the FCC and they were getting dexter ruling to say that they were bonafide news programs and therefore exempt.

People effectively read the exception as swallowing the rule, and they said anything goes.

Any TV program, any radio program is now bona fide news.

The exception swallows the rule.

And what we did at the beginning of the year was we said, listen, that's not what the statute says.

That's not actually what the FCC case law says, so just be mindful.

It's political season.

There's legally qualified candidates that you're going to have on, and be mindful of the equal time rule.

rule and again on the colbert episode they were apparently given advice that they could do this but colbert apparently did not want to have jasmine crockett on who's running in opposition in the democrat primary to james talarico and it appears to be that he ran a hoax that he knew he could fool the mainstream media the legacy media by claiming he was censored he could drive clicks and donations and get a leg up on jasmine crockett and the national news media just went along hook line and seen

because it fit with all their priors that this was trump censorship but this was a decision by colbert and by talarico to put a hoax out there that they knew the media would run for purposes of talarico apparently scoring political points against jasmine crockett if i was jasmine crockett i'd be pretty upset by that all right so tell me about the view what's happening with the view

The view is similar.

So the view apparently is claiming that they are a bonafide news program and therefore can have one political candidate on and not afford equal opportunity to other candidates.

And what we have said is that the view has not

established, they've not made the case to the FCC that they do in fact qualify for the exception to the rule.

And so we have started an enforcement inquiry, taking enforcement actions to explore this issue with them and move forward.

Again, they have not made the case that they are a bona fide news program and we're actively looking at that.