{"id":318759,"date":"2026-02-18T00:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/pulled-colbert-talarico-interview-cbs-responds-to-backlash\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T00:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T00:00:11","slug":"pulled-colbert-talarico-interview-cbs-responds-to-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/pulled-colbert-talarico-interview-cbs-responds-to-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Pulled Colbert-Talarico interview: CBS responds to backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/4JAFgCNl63E\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Pulled Colbert-Talarico interview: CBS responds to backlash\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4JAFgCNl63E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Stephen Colbert taped a \u201cLate Show\u201d interview with James Talarico, a candidate in the Democratic Senate primary in Texas. But he says CBS lawyers intervened before the interview could air on TV. \u201cWe were told in no uncertain terms by our network\u2019s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the broadcast,\u201d Colbert told his viewers Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Tapper with the story<br \/>\n2:30 CBS&#8217; issued statement<br \/>\n4:13 Panel of experts react<\/p>\n<p>Watch more CNN here: https:\/\/cnn.it\/4kh5RPe<\/p>\n<p>#Colbert #FCC #News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Colbert taped a \u201cLate Show\u201d interview with James Talarico, a candidate in the Democratic Senate primary in Texas. But he says CBS lawyers intervened before the interview could air on TV. \u201cWe were told in no uncertain terms by our network\u2019s lawyers, who called us directly, that we could not have him on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":318760,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128809],"tags":[147223,129518,138387],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-318759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cnn","tag-colbert","tag-stephen","tag-taped"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pulled Colbert-Talarico interview: CBS responds to backlash | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Pulled Colbert-Talarico interview: CBS responds to backlash for free, here on News ISC. 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