In an episode of his podcast, “Verdict with Ted Cruz,” released on Friday, the Texas Republican expressed he was “thrilled” that ABC removed Jimmy Kimmel from the air due to his remarks about conservative influencer Charlie Kirk.

However, he strongly opposed the idea of the government regulating speech, cautioning that it could adversely impact conservatives when Democrats regain power.

Responding to Carr’s comments, Cruz said: “No, no, no, no, no.”

“Look, look, I like Brendan Carr,” the senator remarked. “He’s a good guy. He’s the chairman of the FCC. I work closely with him. But what he said there is dangerous as hell.”

“He says, ‘We can do this the easy way, or we can do this the hard way.’ And I got to say, that’s right out of ‘Goodfellas.’ That’s right out of a mafioso coming into a bar going, ‘nice bar you have here. It’d be a shame if something happened to it.'”

Cruz further commented: “I think it is unbelievably dangerous for government to put itself in the position of saying, ‘We’re going to decide what speech we like and what we don’t, and we’re going to threaten to take you off air if we don’t like what you’re saying.'”

“And it might feel good right now to threaten Jimmy Kimmel,” the senator said. “But when it is used to silence every conservative in America, we will regret it.”