Late night show host Stephen Colbert is going after his soon-to-be former network, saying CBS blocked him from airing an interview on the broadcast.

That interview was with James Talariko, a Texas Democrat running for Senate, who's also been a vocal critic of President Trump and his policies.

Colbert said he was told the interview could violate the so-called equal time rule,

which mandates that all political candidates receive equal on-air opportunities.

Entertainment shows, including late night and daytime talk shows, have long been the exception to that rule.

But back in January, FCC chairman Brendan Carr released a letter saying that could change.

Here's Colbert from last night.

In this letter, Carr said he was thinking about dropping the exception for talk shows

because he said some of them were motivated by partisan purposes.

Well, sir, you're chairman of the FCC.

So, FCCU.

Because I think,

because I think you are motivated

bipartisan purposes yourself.

Sir,

you smelt it because you dealt it.

For more, I'm joined now by FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez. Welcome back to the NewsHour. Thanks for being here. Thank you. It's good to be here. I should also note, we did invite FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to the show, but his office did not respond. He's welcome to join us in the future. I want to put you some confusing narratives. We have here. Colbert, we've heard

as saying he was told by CBS lawyers, Tala Rico, could not be on the broadcast. So he ran the

interview on YouTube instead. But CBS in a statement today said that Colbert was not prohibited

from airing the interview. He was told it could trigger the FCC equal time rule and that he chose to stream it on

YouTube instead. What do you make of these two narratives? Well, I don't know between the two facts

that are being provided, but I do know that what the FCC did this year was it put out a notice

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