HOUSTON – Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel will return to ABC on Tuesday night, but not without sparking a heated debate among top Republicans about free speech and the Federal Communications Commission.

FCC Chairman Brendan Carr threatened last week to pull ABC’s license to broadcast after Kimmel made comments about the murder of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.

Carr made the remarks during an appearance on conservative host Benny Johnson’s podcast .

“Frankly when you see stuff like this, I mean look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way,” Carr said. “You know the FCC is going to have remedies that we could look at. And again we may ultimately be called to be a judge on that.”

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That threat drew p

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