Late night talk show host Stephen Colbert said that an attorney from the CBS network said "in no uncertain terms" that his show could not broadcast his interview with pro-LGBTQ+ state Rep. James Talarico (D), who is running for U.S. Senate, after a threat from Federal Communications Commission (FCC), an ostensibly independent federal agency that President Donald Trump has used to intimidate broadcasters.
It's an intense work road trip. I had a journalist ask me what I was going to do on my break. And this is the break. It's the worst break I've ever had, because we have been working around the clock here, talking to media and talking to our constituents about what's happening in Texas, shining a national spotlight on this redistricting power grab.