SNL may have broken key airtime regulation with Kamala Harris appearance, FCC commissioner says

NBC's "Saturday Night Live" may have broken federal regulations governing airtime with the appearance of Vice President Kamala Harris this weekend, an FCC official said.

FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr says the appearance may have violated the equal time rule, a requirement that public broadcast organizations offer comparable time and placement to qualifying candidates during a major election.

Carr said Harris' appearance on SNL may have broken the rule if NBC did not also send an invitation to former President Trump.

"This is a clear and blatant effort to evade the FCC's Equal Time rule," Carr wrote of Harris' appearance. "The purpose of the rule is to avoid exactly this type of biased and partisan conduct - a licensed broadcaster using the public airwaves to exert its influence for one candidate on the eve of an election. Unless the broadcaster offered Equal Time to other qualifying campaigns.”

Trump campaign Senior Advisor Jason Miller told Fox News Digital that Trump did not receive an invite. An NBC News report also stated that a spokesperson for SNL "did not return a request for comment on whether it invited Trump to appear.”