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Zohran Mamdani: “A Republican president whose FCC is seeking to intimidate…”

Featuring: Zohran Mamdani, Democratic | Mayor of New York City

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Roosevelt Island Press Conference By NYC Democratic Party Nominee Zohran Mamdani At Southpoint Park

Published | Video Starts at 16:53

… because we often hear from Republicans about their desire for a smaller government, for less of an intervention in people's lives, as they put it. And yet here we have A Republican president whose FCC is seeking to intimidate the media and looking to use their regulatory powers as the means of doing so. This should offend all of us, because to be a leader, it means to encounter speech that you have, hate speech that you disagree with, speech that you oppose. (16:53–17:04)

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Asserts that a Republican president's FCC is using regulatory powers to intimidate the media.

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