India, Sept. 18 -- In the hours leading up to ABC's decision to pull late-night host Jimmy Kimmel off air indefinitely over his comments about slain Charlie Kirk, two sources familiar with the matter told Rolling Stone that senior executives at ABC, its owner Disney, and affiliates held emergency meetings to try and figure out how to minimize the damage. Several execs believe that Kimmel said nothing over the line, but Kimmel was suspended due to the threat of the Trump administration, according to the sources.

"They were pissing themselves all day," one ABC insider told Rolling Stone.

Brendan Carr, Trump's Federal Communications Commission chairman, urged licensed broadcasters on Wednesday, September 17, to stop airing Kimmel's show. "...