Jeremy Barr

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr was very firm. “As a general rule, we don’t get into any discussions that happen with the White House or don’t happen with the White House,” the Chairman told Politico’s Dasha Burns in a recent interview. While Chairman Carr may not be keen to detail his relations with the Trump administration, a trove of FCC documents—obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request and lawsuit 

NBC, ABC, CBS, PBS, NPR and KCBS radio all have one thing in common: They’re under scrutiny from the Federal Communications Commission, which is now being led by Brendan Carr, a Republican who has praised President Donald Trump as a leader in combating bias in the media. NBCUniversal and its parent company, Comcast, were the latest media companies to receive word of an investigation by the FCC.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions, testifying at a House Judiciary Committee oversight hearing, pushed back on recent reports suggesting the politicization of the government's review of the AT&T and Time Warner merger. Last week, it was widely reported that the Department of Justice asked AT&T in a Monday meeting to divest Turner as a condition of winning approval, possibly owing to President Donald Trump's distaste for CNN. "First, I would say that I don't accept, and cannot accept, the accuracy of that news report," Sessions told Rep Hank Johnson (D-GA).