A legal expert on Tuesday exposed the "pretext" President Donald Trump's Federal Communications Commission is using in its latest bid to stymie free speech. Elie Honig, a former federal prosecutor, discussed the FCC's investigation into Disney's DEI policies during a panel discussion on CNN's "NewsNight" with host Abby Phillip. He argued that the way the panel discussed the investigation revealed something more nefarious at play. "The way we're talking about this at this table, all of us, exposes that this is a pretext piled atop another pretext," Honig said. "We all know this is not about DEI policies. We're not even really talking about it this way. We know it's about the content of speech. We know it's about the jokes Jimmy Kimmel made. We know it's about the kind of things that he says. That's what's prompting all of this." Trump's FCC reportedly ramped up its investigation into Disney after late-night comedian Jimmy Kimmel made a joke about first lady Melania Trump that she and the president did not like. FCC Chairman Brendan Carr lobbed a not-so-subtle threat at Disney during a podcast interview on Tuesday, saying the agency has the power to revoke the broadcaster's license before its expiration date, and put the company through a laborious process to get it back.