Brendan Carr says he’ll let Pete Hegseth decide whether TV networks can air the public execution

FCC president Brendan Carr said helium volition defer to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth connected whether TV networks tin aerial the planned execution of convicted Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan by firing squad.

The Pentagon has said the execution volition beryllium livestreamed, suggesting it'll look connected an online level beyond the FCC's jurisdiction. But it's communal for broadcast TV networks to aerial unrecorded video of authorities events, and Carr's bureau does person a accidental implicit what happens connected nationalist airwaves.

"My knowing is it's not connected broadcast TV, truthful I don't deliberation there's a relation for the FCC 1 mode oregon the other," Carr said successful a CNBC interview today. "But I spot …

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