Chuck Schumer: “I must speak for another moment about the FCC. We are in a moment of peril--dire peril--in America because yesterday…”

“I must speak for another moment about the FCC. We are in a moment of peril--dire peril--in America because yesterday Donald Trump said he intends to put a dagger through the heart of what America is about when he said that he doesn't believe in free speech, that maybe the licenses and ability to speak of people and broadcast companies that disagree with him should be taken away. When Donald Trump says the FCC should consider revoking licenses of networks with shows and hosts who are 'against me' and who 'give me only bad publicity,' he is talking about a dictatorship. That is what dictatorships do--they shut down anyone who has any disagreement with them. But that is what he is threatening to do today through Brendan Carr. He said: I would think maybe their licenses should be taken away. It will be up to Brendan Carr. That is censorship. It is disgusting. It is a violation of the First Amendment. What Trump is doing comes right out of Xi and Putin's playbook. He is launching in broad daylight a naked attack on perhaps the most basic freedom in America: free speech. For hundreds of years, America has been proud to be a land of free speech, and Donald Trump is the first President who really attempts to put a dagger through its heart. Where are our Republican colleagues? They know this is wrong. Silence; obeisance to Donald Trump's destruction of free speech and democracy.”