The interview that Donald Trump’s FCC ordered Stephen Colbert not to televise on The Late Show is now live on YouTube.
Texas representative and Senate hopeful James Talarico sat down with Colbert for the interview on Monday, despite FCC head Brendan Carr’s orders to CBS. While it did not air on CBS, it garnered 1.5 million views on YouTube as of early Tuesday afternoon—far more than Colbert’s average celebrity interview.
“We were told, in no uncertain terms, by our network’s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast,” Colbert said Monday. In lieu of the televised interview, the host, whose show is ending in May following his on-air comments that CBS’s settlement with the president over its campaign trail 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris was a “big, fat bribe,” used the time to lay into Carr—and CBS, for caving.
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