Threatens to challenge NBC's broadcast license over nuclear arsenal report

After NBC News reported, citing three officials present, that Trump had told national security leaders he wanted what amounted to a nearly tenfold increase in the U.S. nuclear arsenal, Trump tweeted that the story was 'Pure fiction, made up to demean' and asked 'at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License?' In a follow-up tweet he wrote that network news 'licenses must be challenged and, if appropriate, revoked.' The FCC licenses individual broadcast stations, not networks or news organizations, and revocation on content grounds would conflict with First Amendment protections. Press-freedom advocates and legal observers described the tweets as a threat to use federal regulatory power against unfavorable coverage.

"With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License? Bad for country!" Quote verified against source