We're seeing the administration through the regulatory process, pressure media organizations to cancel late night comedians or to pay the President personally if they want to continue to to air or have a broadcast license or get a merger approved. We're seeing the Justice Department weaponized against perceived enemies of the President or of the sort of the cultural agenda of the administration. So the attack on nonprofits is a part and parcel of that broader attack, an effort to silence and intimidate the President's critics or the administration's critics or those who are not fellow travelers in their cultural agenda. (25:06–25:15)
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Asserts that the Justice Department is being used against perceived enemies of the President.
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