Trump's FCC plots crackdown on 'The View' and 'Jimmy Kimmel Live!'

President Donald Trump's Federal Communications Commission is plotting a regulatory crackdown on politician interviews, changing the enforcement of a longtime rule to effectively prohibit broadcast talk shows from interviewing Democratic candidates without also allowing their Republican opponents to have an interview as well.

At issue is the "equal time" rule, which enforces fairness in political airtime for candidates. This rule has long had a number of exceptions, with talk show interviews...