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It involves one of the company's late-night talk show hosts and President Trump.
Shortly after the most recent dust-up, the federal government opened an investigation into Disney.
Here to talk about all this is the FT's U.S.
media editor, Ana Nicolaou.
Let's do some background quickly.
So Disney owns the TV channel ABC and ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel and Trump.
They've been going back and forth since last year.
Disney temporarily suspended Kimmel's show in the fall after one of his jokes angered Trump, which brings us to the White House Correspondents Dinner in April.
What happened there?
Now, we should say that Kimmel defended his joke as satire.
Now, shortly after all this, the Federal Communications Commission launched a probe into Disney's broadcast licenses.
What grounds was that on?
DEI, as in diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.
Ana, how worried is Disney that the federal probe will actually succeed?
What does this all mean, though, for CEO Josh DeMauro, who has spent years at Disney but only took over as CEO less than two months ago?
Do people feel like he can handle all this?