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The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission has suggested that the daytime talk show should could also come under government scrutiny.
Sept. 22, 2025, 4:19 p.m. ET
The hosts of ABC’s daytime talk show “The View” on Monday weighed in for the first time on Jimmy Kimmel’s show getting pulled from the air, criticizing the Trump administration for putting pressure on the network before the decision was made.
It was also the first time the show aired live since a top Trump administration official said that “The View” could come under scrutiny, too.
“Someone can say something they shouldn’t and get taken off the air, but the government cannot apply pressure to force someone to be silenced,” said Whoopi Goldberg, a longtime host of “The View.”
ABC pulled Mr. Kimmel’s show “indefinitely” last Wednesday after conservatives said he inaccurately described the politics of the man accused of fatally shooting the right-wing activist Charlie Kirk. The network announced later on Monday that his show would return on Tuesday.
The network removed “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” from its schedule a few hours after Brendan Carr, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, argued in a podcast that Mr. Kimmel’s remarks were part of a “concerted effort to lie to the American people,” and said that the agency was “going to have remedies that we can look at.”
“Frankly, when you see stuff like this — I mean, we can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Mr. Carr told the podcast’s host, Benny Johnson.
