'Very big risk for Republicans': Trump appointee seen as already engaged in 'overreach'

Donald Trump's incoming chairman of the Federal Communications Commission sent a stern letter to Disney CEO Bob Iger that's seen as a threat to other news media outlets, and Democratic strategist Maria Cardona warned that these preemptive moves could alienate voters. Trump appointee Brendan Carr signaled that he would take a more active role policing the media industry, pointing to the $15 million defamation settlement ABC News reached with the president-elect, and Cardona expressed alarm that the incoming administration was already pursuing his perceived political enemies. "Donald Trump didn't even get to 50 percent of the popular vote – 7,000 votes are what separates Democratic control of the House from Republican control of the House, and the Senate still has small margins for Republicans, and so they have to be really careful about this kind of overreach, because that is not what the American people voted for." "The American people voted for Trump to bring down grocery prices, bring down high housing prices, and that's like the last thing that he's been talking about in these last several weeks," Cardona said, "and I think it's it's going to be something that is a very big risk for Republicans."