From the New York Times, I'm Rachel Abrams, and this is The Daily.

The aftermath of Charlie Kirk's assassination and the suspension of late-night host Jimmy Kimmel

are sparking concerns and conversations about the state of free speech in the United States.

Today, my colleagues Jim Rutenberg, Jeremy Peters, and Adam Liptack on the story of Kimmel's

removal and why it is provoking both fears and applause from different camps of a polarized country.

Music camps of a polarized country. It's Friday, September 19th.

Okay, there are like three phones and six laptops in the room.

Is everybody's phone off?

I think my phone's off.

I can like hear typing.

I can hear clicking.

Looking at you, Jeremy Peters.

Sorry, I'm just adding this one paragraph.

No, you're finishing up a story that we are literally here to talk to you today about.

So, no, this is good.

This is good. This makes it very real. All right. Jim Rutenberg, Jeremy Peters, Adam Liptack.

Thank you, all three of you for joining me. Thanks so much for having me. Thank you for having me.

It's great to be here, Rachel. So we're gathered here today to talk about the indefinite suspension of Jimmy Kimmel and everything that that entails.

And so, first of all, Jim Rudenberg, you are a longtime media reporter.

Can you just tell us first what exactly happened with Kimmel?

Well, on Monday night, Kimmel came out to do his monologue on his show on ABC and decided to launch

into a commentary about basically the aftermath of the assassination of Charlie Kirk.

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