The Keith Edwards Show - I CAUGHT the FCC Spying and it’s a TOTAL NIGHTMARE

Episode Date: February 20, 2026

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The FCC went after James Tolariko in truly free speech in a stunning moment where they tried to stop a person who is running for U.S. Senate from expressing their First Amendment rights. And there's been huge fallout from that. In fact, what's happened is that James Tullerico, after that moment happened, raised more than $2.5 million in 24 hours after that interview was banned. And I think this is really, this is what happens. You try to ban speech and it ricochets and it makes speech more powerful. That's clearly the outcome of what's happened here. Now, we had to be relentless. Though we were able to push back in the FCC this time,

I get worried about the fact of like what happens the second time, the fifth time, the 12th time, when we become used to this. So let's not become used to this. Let's be as adamant and as fervent as possible. as adamant and fervent as we were for James Tala Rico and Stephen Colbert. And a very strange thing happened. A very strange thing happened. I got a notification last night.

This man followed me. Look at this. Brendan Carr followed me. Brandon Carr, the chairman of the FCC. Look at this. Right here. Now, what's interesting is that what happens when someone follows you on Twitter is that you suddenly can DM them.

And sometimes people have DMs open, but doesn't mean that they're going to get them. They get put into like a basically like a spam folder. But when they follow you, they get them in their normal folder, the folder where they get messages. So I said to myself, what would you say to Brendan Carr if given the opportunity? And folks on threads had a lot of great ideas. Someone said, I think a video of Colbert's interview with Cal Raco would. be a good start. Someone else said, A sex location.

I see you watching me, Daddy. Another person said, asked to interview him. And I actually think it's a good idea. Would Brandon Carr come on the show? So, let us do this right now. Let us go to Brendan Carr's account and let's ask.

Hey, Brandon. Thank you. I can type. Thank you for the follow. Would love to interview you for the channel. Maybe he's not aware I have a YouTube channel. For my YouTube channel, would you be interested?

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Their fee is free unless they win, and I mean, free is good, especially when you're in a tight spot. So if you want to check it out, you can. Just head on over to for thepeople.com slash Edwards for more information, or you can click the link in the description below. All right. Now, I have to say, I saw the fallout from the FCC thing, I thought was great, but I found what Jasmine Crockett said here a little curious.

I'm going to play the clip. I'm going to play the clip. It sounds like to me, what Jasmine Crockett is saying is that she believes Donald Trump and CBS and the FCC and not what Tala Rico and Colbert said, which is that CBS wouldn't allow them to air the interview. Let's listen. We did receive information suggesting the federal government

did not shut down this segment. Number one. That is my understanding that the federal government didn't shut this down and we will do an official statement once we get another official statement that we anticipate is going to be coming. So just so you know,

James Talariko said it like this. This is the interview. Donald Trump didn't want you to see. His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert. That's how he put it. And this is, again, what Jasmine Crockett said. Information suggesting federal government did not

shut down this segment. Number one. That is... So, she's calling James Talariko and Stephen Colbert a liar. That's what it sounds like to me. My understanding that the federal government didn't shut this down and we will do an official statement once we get

another official statement that we anticipate is when to be coming. from Paramedals. Right? So people, the issue. And someone somewhere decided we just don't want to do that. And instead, we're going to

just do it this way. Jasmine and Crackett has been on Stephen Colbert at least two times. Two times. James Charcoe has been on there once. And I just found this to be very disappointing. I kind of think when our First Amendment rights are under attack,

we've got to defend them even if they are. I think it would have been a much better it just would have been a much better move for her to defend Talarico and Colbert and defend his First Amendment right to speak and say that regardless, I know he's my primary opponent, but this is bigger than that. I think it would have actually created a lot of goodwill. What this does to me made me like see her in a different way, which is upsetting. It was actually very upsetting this statement for me.

All right. Anna Navarro also made this great point about the FCC. Candidates in the race. Right. But let me. But I think overall, these rules and these laws are outdated and just don't conform to modern-day media landscape. The equal time rule came was founded what in 1927. There wasn't even TV networks then. It was reformed in 1934. It actually applied to radio.

And in 1959, when there were three networks, it was reformed to X-7. news programs. The view falls under the news division at ABC. So today, you can get news and more eyeballs on YouTube, on streaming, on so many

on social media than many programs do on network TV or cable TV. And it seems that the application of these rules is very selective. Only for these folks, but not for radio. Well, you know what? They'll become a press,

and the next term who decides that he wants to or she wants to apply it to talk radio. And let's see how Republicans like that. I mean, that's the thing. Like, these rules really are dated. And I think it's a good thing if there's an equal time clause for presidential candidates. But to put it on a talk show during a primary is just not within the spirit of the law. This is really meant to be for when they were. or two or three TV channels, and that was it that they wanted to make sure both candidates

on the Democratic side or the Republican side, if one was interviewed, the other would have to be interviewed. That's the reason why this kind of law exists. And there were a lot of exemptions, like entertainment shows and talk shows, that sort of thing. So, but it could also be, you know, I guess like talk shows have changed. They've become more political in nature. But I really do think that the law itself is dated and I'm instinctually against laws that try to limit our speech. I think speech wants to be free and I think we all benefit for more speech, not less. So I think, again, like speech wants to be free. And so when you tell someone you can't say something, it turns out then people want to hear it as we saw with the Colbert cancellation. And this

woman on Fox made this good point, actually, about how Stephen Colbert should have Trump on a show. He's being really cute. He said, you know, the president's a toddler who gets too much screen time. If I wanted to watch a toddler who gets too much screen time, I would turn on Stephen Colbert's show. But like millions of Americans, I don't. And the reality I think here is that Stephen Colbert, he's afraid to have the president on. his show and he should be he has a very unhealthy obsession with President Trump he he mentions him in almost every monologue multiple times a week and and he has conditioned his audience to believe that President Trump is this bad scary authoritarian figure and he knows that if he has President Trump on his show his

audience is going to see the same affable likable funny guy that millions of Americans even Zohran Mamdani saw in the Oval Office that day who President Trump really is. So I personally hope the president makes this interesting. I would love for the president to offer for himself to go on. Stephen Scho, offer himself. I think that is a great idea. I don't think, I actually think Trump is too scared to do it. Trump only goes in friendly area. He only does friendly interviews now and I do not see a world in which he would do that. But I do think we should put the pressure on him because it's very rare that Donald Trump talks to anyone who disagrees with him.

And so I do think Stephen Colbert has the chops to talk to Trump and to expose him and to catch him in a lot of lies into time and do it not. I think it would be great television. I actually think it would also be very instructive for the country to actually see who this president is. This woman thinks Donald Trump would show up and be a ball of joy. That is not what would happen. Donald Trump would show up and he would, the second he,

he sensed that Stephen Colbert wasn't sloboring all over him, would get defensive, start attacking, and would be the Trump that we all have no exists, except for these fools because they only get one side of him. So I hope he does it. He won't because he knows that he wouldn't be able to do it, but we should put the pressure on him. He should go on Colbert, and I'm sure Colbert would do it if given the opportunity. But let's see, did Brendan Carr reply?

Nope. Not yet. Not yet. Don't look at it. Does he have the juice? Is he afraid? Can you come on the show? I'll let you know.