{"id":155416,"date":"2025-09-19T18:20:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T18:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/155416\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T18:20:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T18:20:08","slug":"ted-cruz-compares-fcc-chair-carr-to-mafia-boss-in-jimmy-kimmel-warnings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/155416\/","title":{"rendered":"Ted Cruz compares FCC Chair Carr to Mafia boss in Jimmy Kimmel warnings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) presides over a subcommittee hearing hearing in the Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill on June 3, 2025 in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p>Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas sharply criticized Federal Communications Commission Chairman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/09\/18\/jimmy-kimmel-charlie-kirk-fcc-carr.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brendan Carr<\/a> for his comments related to late-night host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/09\/17\/charlie-kirk-jimmy-kimmel-abc-disney.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> shortly before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/09\/18\/trump-jimmy-kimmel-tv-network-licenses.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ABC<\/a> pulled his show off the air.<\/p>\n<p>Cruz accused Carr of threatening to cancel ABC&#8217;s broadcast license over Kimmel&#8217;s remarks about the death of conservative activist <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/09\/18\/jimmy-kimmel-kirk-colbert-letterman-trump.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Charlie Kirk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He says, &#8216;We can do this the easy way, or we can do this the hard way,'&#8221; the senator said of Carr <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l6KYixCBTJc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">on his podcast<\/a>, &#8220;Verdict with Ted Cruz.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And I gotta say, that&#8217;s right out of Goodfellas,&#8221; Cruz said, referring to the classic mob film.<\/p>\n<p>This is breaking news. Please refresh for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Senate Judiciary Committee member Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) presides over a subcommittee hearing hearing in the Dirksen Senate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[4467,4615,161,49,48,75,4592,7607,714,28347,348],"class_list":["post-155416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-breaking-news-business","tag-breaking-news-politics","tag-business-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-jimmy-kimmel","tag-media","tag-politics","tag-ted-cruz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}