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Brian Schatz: “If there's a determination by the Federal Communications…”

Featuring: Brian Schatz, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Hawaii

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Schatz Presses FCC Chairman Carr On Jimmy Kimmel Suspension, Free Speech, Trump Admin Overreach

Published | Video Starts at 01:39

We have jurisdiction with respect to the broadcast airwaves uniquely, to ensure that their operations are in the public interest. There's very specific. So if you're a news distortion. So If there's a determination by the Federal Communications Commission that satire is not in the public interest, you believe you have the authority to revoke the license of the broadcaster? That's not my position at all. My position is if the use of the facility is in public interest, then. Let me clarify the question. (01:39–01:57)

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Asserts that the FCC might have the authority to revoke a broadcaster's license if satire is deemed not in the public interest.

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