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
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Republican Sen. Ted Cruz<\/a> of Texas sharply criticized Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr<\/a> for his comments related to late-night host Jimmy Kimmel<\/a> shortly before ABC<\/a> pulled his show off the air.<\/p>\n Cruz said he took issue with Carr threatening to cancel ABC’s broadcast license over Kimmel’s remarks about the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk<\/a>.<\/p>\n “He says, ‘We can do this the easy way, or we can do this the hard way,'” the senator said of Carr in the latest episode of his podcast<\/a>, “Verdict with Ted Cruz,” which aired Friday morning.<\/p>\n “And I gotta say, that’s right out of Goodfellas,” Cruz said, referring to the classic mob film.<\/p>\n “That’s right out of a mafioso coming into a bar going, ‘Nice bar you have here, it’d be a shame if something happened to it.'”<\/p>\n “Look, I like Brendan Carr. He’s a good guy, he’s the chairman of the FCC. I work closely with him, but what he said there is dangerous as hell,” Cruz said at another point in the episode.<\/p>\n