After warning Tucker Carlson against persisting in his new show on Twitter which Tucker launched after being unceremoniously dumped by Fox, the cable news giant has taken the next step against Tucker, sending him a cease-and-desist letter.

Harmeet Dhillon, a big-name conservative lawyer who used to appear on Fox News regularly and is now Tucker's legal counsel, shared the news on Twitter.

Fox News is determined to shut Tucker down after the viewership on his first two episodes of "Tucker on Twitter" eclipsed anything he could have ever dreamed of on Fox News, with more than 100 million views so far.