Remembering Civil Rights Leader Rev. Jesse Jackson
The Lead with Jake Tapper
CNN
3.5 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2026
⏱️ 83 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You drink. |
| 0:01.0 | No notable DNA match in the Guthrie missing persons case. |
| 0:07.0 | So now what? |
| 0:08.0 | The lead starts right now. |
| 0:10.0 | DNA on a glove found two miles from the home of Nancy Guthrie does not match anyone in the |
| 0:18.0 | FBI's criminal database and did not match DNA found in Guthrie's home. |
| 0:23.1 | Coming up, what the next investigative steps could look like to find the mother of today's show |
| 0:28.2 | anchor Savannah Guthrie. Plus, new tributes for civil rights icon, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, |
| 0:34.5 | a two-time presidential candidate who paved the way for so many progressives |
| 0:38.3 | and African Americans who came after him. |
| 0:41.1 | But first, the late show host, Stephen Colbert, taking on the FCC and CBS Lawyers over an |
| 0:49.3 | interview that network lawyers advised him not to air. |
| 1:00.0 | Welcome to the lead. I'm Jay Tepper. We're going to start in our politics lead and look at the Trump administration's |
| 1:04.0 | increasing pressure campaign against broadcast networks and how it continues to impact what you see |
| 1:09.0 | and don't get to see on television. |
| 1:12.5 | Last night, late show host Stephen Colbert taped an interview with Texas State Representative |
| 1:16.7 | James Tala Rico. He's a Democratic candidate in the Senate primary in Texas. |
| 1:21.0 | But Colbert says CBS's lawyers stepped in before the interview that they pre-taped could actually |
| 1:26.0 | air on broadcast television. |
| 1:28.3 | We were told in no uncertain terms by our network's lawyers who called us directly |
| 1:35.3 | that we could not have him on the broadcast. |
| 1:38.3 | Then I was told in some uncertain terms that not only could I not have him on, I could not mention me not |
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