It's Thursday, September 18th.
I'm Jane Costa, and this is What A Day,
the show celebrating yet another moment of free speech greatness under the Trump administration.
In this example,
here's FCC chair Brendan Carr telling right-wing podcaster Benny Johnson that he could pressure television networks to stop showing the ABC late night talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live
because it made President Donald Trump mad.
It's really sort of past time that a lot of these licensed broadcasters themselves push back on Comcast in Disney and say,
listen, we are going to pre-empt.
We are not going to run Kimmel anymore until you straighten this out,
because we licensed broadcaster are running the possibility of fines
for licensed revocations from the FCC.
And just as we were set to record the show around 4 p.m.
Pacific Wednesday, ABC announced that it had pulled Jimmy Kimmel live quote indefinitely.
The move comes after comments Kimmel made during his opening monologue Monday about Trump's reaction to the shooting death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk went viral.
Interesting timing.
We'll be revisiting this.
On today's show,
Trump meets with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer after a lavish visit with King Charles III,
and the Federal Reserve finally cuts its key interest rate.
But let's start with the FBI.