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Now Trump wants Jimmy Fallon, Seth Meyers sacked · The Front

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  Speaker 1: Today's biggest news from The Australian. I'm Claire Harvey with
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  Speaker 1: the Front's afternoon headlines. Stephen Colbert has been axed. Now
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  Speaker 1: American late night TV host Jimmy Kimmel has been booted
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  Speaker 1: by both Disney and the US network ABC from his
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  Speaker 1: own show. Next on Trump's list Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers.
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  Speaker 1: So here's what Jimmy Kimmel actually said on air making
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  Speaker 1: fun of Trump's reaction to the murder of conservative activist
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  Speaker 1: Charlie Kirk. Kimmel suggested the man who's been charged with murder,
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  Speaker 1: Tyler Robinson, could have sympathies to Trump's Make America Great
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  Speaker 1: Again movement.
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  Speaker 2: We had some new lows over the weekend with the
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  Speaker 2: Maga gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered
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  Speaker 2: Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them, and
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  Speaker 2: everything they can to score political points from. And in
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  Speaker 2: between the finger pointing, there was grieving. On Friday, the
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  Speaker 2: White House flew the flags at half staff, which got
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  Speaker 2: some criticism, but on a human level, you can see
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  Speaker 2: how hard the President is taking this.
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  Speaker 3: Adults on the lot of your friend Charlie Kirk, asked
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  Speaker 3: sir personally, how are you holding up over the last
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  Speaker 3: day and a half, Sir, I.
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  Speaker 4: Think very good. And by the way, right there, you
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  Speaker 4: see all the trucks. They've just started construction of the
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  Speaker 4: new borough for the White House, which is something they've
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  Speaker 4: been trying to get, as you know, for about one
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  Speaker 4: hundred and fifty years, and it's going to be a beauty.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, he's at the fourth stage of grief construction. There's demolition.
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  Speaker 4: Construction.
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  Speaker 2: This is not how an adult griefs the murder of
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  Speaker 2: somebody called a friend. This is how a four year
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  Speaker 2: old mourns a goldfish. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: Federal Communications commission Ship Brendan Karr was quick to attack
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  Speaker 1: Kimmel and the broadcasters, suggesting there could be consequences for
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  Speaker 1: their licenses. There's a big upcoming merger on the horizon
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  Speaker 1: that will also need FCC approval.
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  Speaker 3: We can do this the easy way or the hard way.
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  Speaker 3: These companies can find ways to change conduct, to take
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  Speaker 3: action frankly on Kimmel, or you know, there's gonna be
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  Speaker 3: additional work for the FCC ahead.
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  Speaker 1: Trump celebrated Kimmel's suspension, and now he's demanding network NBC
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  Speaker 1: sack the two remaining Big Late Night stars, Jimmy Fallon
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  Speaker 1: and Seth Myers. Myers is already goading him.
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  Speaker 5: Donald Trump is on his way back from a trip
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  Speaker 5: to the United Kingdom, where he was met with protests,
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  Speaker 5: while back here at home, his administration is pursuing a
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  Speaker 5: crackdown on free speech and completely unrelated. I just want
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  Speaker 5: to say before we get started here that I've always
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  Speaker 5: admired and respected mister Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Brittany Higgins's husband, David Cherraz, has been ordered to pay
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  Speaker 1: Linda Reynolds ninety two thousand in damages plus legal costs
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  Speaker 1: that may amount to a further half a million. That's
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  Speaker 1: after he was found to have defamed the former Liberal
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  Speaker 1: minister in a series of social media posts. Higgins has
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  Speaker 1: already been ordered to pay the former senator at three
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  Speaker 1: hundred and forty thousand in damages and legal costs of
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  Speaker 1: more than a million dollars, but Higgins has launched an
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  Speaker 1: appeal against that finding. The appeal will delay bankruptcy proceedings.
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  Speaker 1: Reynolds has already begun against Higgins. A very personal update
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  Speaker 1: from us here at the Australian. Craig moose Moore, an
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  Speaker 1: award winning copywriter has died at just fifty six years
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  Speaker 1: of age. If you scroll back in your feed to
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  Speaker 1: an episode from Monday entitled a Media Execs Dementia Love Story,
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  Speaker 1: you'll hear the managing editor of Vogue Australia, Louise Bryant,
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  Speaker 1: revealing how she turned personal tragedy into a national campaign
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  Speaker 1: to raise awareness about the prevention of dementia. Blues partner Moose,
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  Speaker 1: was diagnosed at just forty six with early onset dementia.
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  Speaker 1: That diagnosis was later clarified as Alzheimer's disease. You can
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  Speaker 1: read about how you can take steps now to reduce
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  Speaker 1: your risk at think Again Dementia dot com. You come
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