Jimmy Kimmel Pulled Indefinitely, Fired CDC Chief Testifies, Trump Honored in UK: AM Update 9⧸18
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Jimmy Kimmel is out! Disney pulls the plug on the late-night host's show indefinitely, and calls for him to be fired. Meanwhile, a new report emerges about a suspect in the Charlie Kirk case. And President Trump visits the King of England in a day full of pomp and circumstance.
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Good morning, everyone. I'm Emily Jashinski, host of After Party, filling in for Megyn Kelly today.
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It's Thursday, September 18th, 2025, and this is your AM update.
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Kimmel is out! Disney's ABC indefinitely yanking the bitter late-night host's show following vile remarks relating to Charlie Kirk's assassination.
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The CDC is the cause of vaccine hesitancy, that you are the problem.
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Recently fired former CDC Director Susan Menares battles with Republicans on the Hill over vaccine mandates.
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And Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s efforts to restore transparency to government health institutions.
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Has anyone released more information on Epstein than I have? Has anyone?
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Democrats doubling down on the Epstein inquiry in an FBI oversight hearing.
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And President Trump visits the King of England in a day full of pomp and circumstance.
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All that and more coming up in just a moment on your AM update.
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Disney's ABC reportedly pulling Jimmy Kimmel's show indefinitely yesterday evening.
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That news coming after Nextstar Media Group announced the company and its partner stations
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would preempt Jimmy Kimmel Live beginning with last night's show.
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Nextstar is the largest owner of local TV stations in America,
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with more than 200 stations with a reach of 220 million people.
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Mr. Kimmel's comments about the death of Mr. Kirk are offensive and insensitive at a critical time
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in our nation's political discourse, and we do not believe they reflect the spectrum of opinions,
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views, or values of the local communities in which we are located.
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Kimmel on Monday spewing vitriolic comments about Charlie Kirk's assassination.
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We hit some new lows over the weekend with the MAGA gang desperately trying to characterize
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this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can
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All of the evidence, which was readily available in the days before those comments were made,
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The shooter etched the bullets with anti-fascist messages and references to transgender furry culture.
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He was also in a relationship with a male partner, his own family telling authorities he had become
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Robinson's mother explained that over the last year or so, Robinson had become more political
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and had started to lean more to the left, becoming more pro-gay and trans rights oriented.
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The charging document also says Robinson accused Kirk of spreading hate.
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And in the day since, with even more evidence coming to light,
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not a word of apology or retraction from Kimmel.
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Earlier on Thursday, Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr appearing on The Benny Show,
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These companies can find ways to change conduct, to take action, frankly, on Kimmel,
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or, you know, there's going to be additional work for the FCC ahead.
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I think, you know, you could certainly see a path forward for suspension over this.
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You could make a strong argument that this is sort of an intentional effort to mislead the American people
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about a very core fundamental fact to a very important matter.
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But the individual licensed stations that are taking their content,
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it's time for them to step up and say this, you know, garbage,
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to the extent that that's what comes down the pipe in the future,
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isn't something that we think serves the needs of our local communities.
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But this sort of status quo is obviously not acceptable where we are.
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You know, this is a very, very, you know, serious issue right now for Disney.
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I want to thank Nextstar for doing the right thing.
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Local broadcasters have an obligation to serve the public interest.
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it is important for broadcasters to push back on Disney programming
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that they determine falls short of community values.
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I hope that other broadcasters follow Nextstar's lead.
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Since the announcement, a 2017 tweet of Kirk's going viral, quote,
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Fired CDC Director Susan Menares appearing yesterday
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before the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee,
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Menares was dismissed from her position last month,
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over vaccine policy disputes with Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,
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Democrats, not a single one of whom voted to confirm Menares,
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rallying around her now that she has become a resistance symbol.
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I also want to thank you for your commitment to the truth.
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I had concern about your backbone, and I was wrong.
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You are standing up for science, standing up for facts,
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standing up for the protections which our children and families need.
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In yesterday's hearing, Menares clinging to her position that she was fired for refusing
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to compromise her integrity as a member of the scientific community.
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I heard concerns that the ACIP might alter childhood vaccine schedule at its September meeting,
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On the morning of August 25th, Secretary Kennedy demanded two things of me.
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They were inconsistent with my oath of office and the ethics required of a public official.
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He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation,
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He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause.
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He said if I was unwilling to do both, I should resign.
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Even under pressure, I could not replace evidence with ideology or compromise my integrity.
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Top advisor to RFKJ, Callie Means, posting on X, quote,
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she refused to fire employees who were openly antagonistic to the agenda Americans voted for.
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The crisis of trust at the CDC is not because of Secretary Kennedy.
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He was brought in to fix it, and he is winning.
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A June poll from Axios Ipsos finding 62% of Americans have a great deal or fair amount of trust in the CDC,
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about a 25% drop from March of 2020 when 88% of Americans trusted the CDC.
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One of Menares' chief complaints against Secretary Kennedy,
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the dismissal of the entire Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices,
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citing the dismissed group's conflicts of interest and the need to restore public trust.
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According to a press release, each member of the committee had been appointed by the Biden administration,
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preventing the Trump administration from choosing a majority of the committee until 2028.
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Secretary Kennedy's HHS accusing the previous administration of making a, quote,
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concerted effort to lock in public health ideology and limit the incoming administration's ability
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to take the proper actions to restore public trust in vaccines.
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Republican Senator from Kansas Roger Marshall, also a physician,
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yesterday saying the CDC is the cause of growing vaccine hesitancy nationwide.
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The CDC is the cause of vaccine hesitancy, that you are the problem,
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that because of COVID and you're forcing these vaccines on people that weren't ever really proven or justified,
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and you all sat there with your hands in your pockets and you let that happen.
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As questions about the COVID shock grew, so too did questions about vaccines.
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Kentucky Senator Republican Rand Paul, also a doctor,
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Menara says she was asked to fire without cause.
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Senator Paul focusing on the hepatitis B vaccine,
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typically administered to newborns on their first day of life,
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Critics question the practice, given hepatitis B is primarily spread through sexual contact
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What is the medical reason for giving a hepatitis B vaccine to a newborn?
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You're somehow terrible if you want to change the childhood.
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We should be discussing what is the childhood vaccine schedule,
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and you should be, the burden should be on you.
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The burden is upon you and the people you wouldn't fire to prove to us
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that we need to give our six-month-old a COVID vaccine
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and that we need to give our one-day-old a hepatitis B vaccine.
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not whether all vaccines are good or whether we live in Alice in the Wonderland.
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I actually agree with you, and I was open to the science.
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I just would not pre-commit to approving all the ACIP recommendations without the science.
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The newly formed Vaccine Advisory Committee is set to meet later today
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to discuss childhood vaccine schedule recommendations,
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The Federal Reserve Board of Governors on Wednesday
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voting to cut interest rates by a quarter of a point,
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Fed Chair Jerome Powell citing weak job growth as the primary factor.
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A recent revision showing job gains under President Biden were much
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This marking the first rate cut since President Trump took office.
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Mr. Trump waging an intense public pressure campaign for months,
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urging the Fed to cut rates in order to spur economic growth and ease borrowing costs.
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The only dissenting vote from Stephen Myron sworn in earlier this week.
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But embattled Fed Governor Lisa Cook present for the vote
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as an appellate court temporarily blocked her firing.
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the S&P 500 and Nasdaq ending the day in the red,
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Fed officials indicating two more cuts likely to come later this year
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Has anyone released more information on Epstein than I have?