Chuck Todd

And caving to Trump and Brendan Carr isn't just leaning right.

It's enabling state pressure on speech.

Am I wrong, Max W., Alexandria, Virginia?

Um, so I, I think you're both right here.

And I think that, that in fairness to Mike, I don't think what Mike is saying is that it's, it's sort of, um, and, and I think where I agree with him, it's like, look, um, every news organization has a bias, a bias, even if your bias is to try to be, um,

sort of neutral or, um, sort of boring, whatever you want to call it, that it's just a form of a bias, you know?

So I think the question is whether, um, what is it that, that, that they're hoping to do, um, with, with, uh, CBS?

I, the problem I have is, is the, the stuff they're trying to do with late night comedians, right.

To try to, um,

forced late night entertainment or any entertainment through the purview of government censors, if you will.

Right.

I think that's that to me.

And I think that's why you saw bipartisan outrage at Brendan Carr and what he attempted to do with Jimmy Kimmel and to try to bully Disney into getting rid of Kimmel.

And they wouldn't do it.

Or frankly, what Trump did do to Colbert with the Ellison's or it appeared to do this.

Right.

So, you know, ultimately, I think the problem is, is that it's a while it's a publicly regulated network.

It only is servicing its shareholders.

So I think the problem I have is the fiduciary responsibility that these media companies have to shareholders and why their news divisions aren't allowed to be fully independent, that they are subject to potential –

coercion because these companies have other business in front of the government, right?