Senator Ted Cruz says that the FCC acted as “Mafioso” on Jimmy Kimmel

The American senator Ted Cruz accused the head of the American broadcasting regulator of having acted as “a mafioso” in the suspension of the end of the evening Jimmy Kimmel – the strongest attack to date of a conservative republican on controversy.

He said the threat of the president of the Federal Communications Communications (FCC), Brendan Carr, in ABC, on the monologue of their actor on the conservative influencer, Charlie Kirk, was “dangerous as hell”.

“It is completely out of Goodfellas,” said the Texas Republican, when he affected the accent of a gangster.

Other Congress Republicans were more deaf in their criticism of how the FCC put pressure on ABC, belonging to Disney to take measures on Kimmel, which was indefinitely suspended on Wednesday.

The row began after Kimmel seemed to suggest in his monologue on Monday evening that the alleged shooter accused of the murder of Kirk was a Republican Maga, although the authorities of Utah said that the suspect was “indoctrinated by the left ideology”.

Before ABC’s decision, Carr said there would be consequences if Kimmel remained in the air. The President of the FCC said that Kimmel “seemed directly to mislead the American public” in his remarks in the air.

The FCC is responsible for granting dissemination licenses to networks such as ABC, NBC and CBS, and they are held under the law in the public interest.

On his podcast verdict with Ted Cruz, the senator pointed out on Friday that he hated what Kimmel had said about Kirk, and he was “delighted that he was dismissed”. He also said that Carr was “a good guy”.

“But what he (Car) said he was dangerous like hell,” added Cruz. “And so he threatens, explicitly, we will cancel the ABC license.

“We will remove them from the air so that ABC can no longer diffuse. He says we can do it the simplest way, or we could do it to the hard, yes. And I must say that it is right away from GoodFellas.

“It is completely out of a mafioso who enters a walk bar, a beautiful bar that you have here, it would be a shame that something happens,” he added, using a gangster voice.

He warned that if the government is embarking on the ban on the ban and regulation of what the media say “it will end up for the conservatives”.

Friday, in the oval office, President Donald Trump defended Car and said “that I do not agree with Ted Cruz”, which is generally one of his most loyal allies.

Another republican senator, Thom Tillis de Caroline du Nord, told journalists that Cruz was “absolutely right” in her Carr review.

Tillis, who will not ask for his re -election next year, said that the comments of the President of the FCC were “unacceptable behavior”.

The Republicans in Congress generally made the party line with their response to the suspension of Kimmel while the nation is shaken by the political and cultural replicas of the kirk murder.

But Senator Jerry Moran, a Kansas Republican, seemed a note of caution on Thursday.

“The conservative position is freedom of expression is freedom of expression, and we are better paying attention to the lines that we cross in the freedom of expression decreasing,” Moran in Politico told.

South Dakota senator Mike Rounds said he would approach it as a “employer-employee problem”.

Kimmel did not comment on his suspension publicly, but his colleagues at the end of the evening – including Jon Stewart, Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert – replied Thursday with a demonstration of solidarity.

Kirk was fatally killed on September 10 during an outdoor event on an Utah College campus.

Thursday, the Senate adopted a resolution to designate on October 14 – Kirk’s birthday – a day of memory for him.

The legislators of the American House of Representatives approved the resolution, but nearly 100 Democrats have opposed it.

In Sacramento, California, police said three shots were fired on Friday afternoon in an ABC10 building while people were inside.

The shots came from a moving vehicle and no one was injured, the police said.

It was not immediately clear if the shooting was a targeted attack or an accidental discharge of a weapon.

ABC10 is an affiliate operated by Nexstar, one of the main media companies that have canceled Jimmy Kimmel Live! From its markets this week, quoting the “offensive and insensitive” comments of the host on Kirk.