New Delhi, Sept. 18 -- After Jimmy Kimmel's late-night show on ABC was taken off air on Wednesday following the Donald Trump administration's threat to cancel broadcasting licences because of comments the host made about the conservative influencer Charlie Kirk's killing, political commentator Chris Hayes has criticised the move.

Hayes said the US president and wealthy oligarchs were aiming to transform the American media into a friendly propaganda arm of the regime.

"When Stephen Colbert announced that his late-night show was being cancelled back in July, the president United States, Donald Trump, had a chilling reaction," Hayes said during a show on MSNBC News.

The political commentator also played a clip of Trump crowing about the d...