David Folkenflik

And Disney took him off the air for some days after two major owners of local TV stations that have ABC affiliates, you know, said they were going to pull that show from their airwaves.

And again, this was an instance in which the FCC itself did not take a formal position.

And yet, you know, the the will of the administration, the will of this particular FCC chairman, you know, was adhered to for a time.

In this instance, you know, there was no change in the policy yet.

Carr says he's considering changing it.

CBS did not, it seemed, get a ruling or an indication from the FCC of the need to do this.

They did so themselves.

Why would they do that?

Some of the critics are saying that they're essentially self-censoring, that they're getting in the way.

And why would they, you know, why would they anger one of their biggest stars?

Well, let's look at the much bigger context here.

which is that you've got vast business interests at play.

The parent company of CBS is Paramount.

Its chairman, David Ellison, with the money of his father, the co-founder of Oracle, is making a bid to buy all of Warner Brothers Discovery, the parent company of HBO and Warner Brothers Studios and

DC Comics and CNN, among other things.

You know, it's right as we are taping this in the mix of it.

It's trying to make an increased offer, trying to pull that Warner Brothers sale away from Netflix.

Well, that would require the approval of antitrust regulators within probably the Justice Department.

But other folks get to advise it, including Chairman Carr at the FCC.

At a time when President Trump's administration has made clear