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FCC Attempt to Kill Stephen Colbert Interview Completely Backfires | Stephen Colbert’s interview with Texas state Representative James Talarico is one of his most viewed ever.

ump administration tried to prevent late-night television host Stephen Colbert from airing his interview with Texas state Representative and Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico, but the attempt has backfired. Instead of including the interview in his CBS show Monday night, which the network’s lawyers had warned against, Colbert posted the interview to YouTube and other social media channels, where it has already garnered millions of views on each platform, much more than a single TV broadcast of the show, which averages 2.3 million viewers.

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