Yassamin Ansari: “Stephen Colbert's show is canceled coincidentally after the…”

“Of course, now they are defunding vital sources of objective nonpartisan information via NPR and pbs. This is also the same week that Stephen Colbert's show is canceled coincidentally after the parent company settled a massive lawsuit with Trump. This is extremely dangerous when you have, when you look at history and authoritarian. I think about this a lot because my parents fled an authoritarian regime decades ago.” (01:19–01:29)

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