Thank you to each of you. Chairman Carr, let's start with free speech. I think you would agree that the FCC's Public Interest Standard has been weaponized against conservatives in the past. In 2018, Senate Democrats tried to pressure the FCC to use the public interest standard to stop Sinclair Broadcasting Group from acquiring Tribune Media. In 2023, leftists sought to stop a routine renewal of a Fox owned broadcast station over complaints about 2020 election coverage. Do you agree that that was wrong? (00:13–00:26)
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