Colbert Calls Out Cbs Parent Company Pressuring '60 Minutes'

"Late Show" big Stephen Colbert called retired his employer, CBS genitor institution Paramount Global, connected Tuesday complete reports that controlling shareholder Shari Redstone put unit connected "60 Minutes" to debar captious sum of President Donald Trump amid Trump's suit against nan media company.

"There are reports that nan proprietor of this institution called nan president – aliases called nan president of this institution – and said, ‘Yeah, you’ve sewage to get nan news to laic disconnected immoderate bad Trump stories.’ And nan connection is that that was not passed connected to nan news division, I'm happy to say," Colbert told his guest, MSNBC big Rachel Maddow. 

He past asked nan wide anchor, "Have you been getting thing for illustration that astatine MSNBC? Are location immoderate like, 'Hey, let’s not talk truthful overmuch astir Trump excessively overmuch complete there?"

"Not astatine all. And that’s what activity looks for illustration here. Leadership is not that you don’t expect you are going to get inappropriate governmental pressure. Leadership is proceeding that inappropriate governmental unit and making judge nan group who really do nan activity ne'er person to carnivore nan costs themselves," Maddow responded.

CBS ANCHORS SALUTE OUTGOING '60 MINUTES' PRODUCER, SAY EFFORT TO SETTLE TRUMP LAWSUIT TIED TO CORPORATE MERGER

Late-night big Stephen Colbert brought up reports that CBS News' president wanted nan network's news section to laic disconnected bad Trump stories connected Tuesday during an question and reply pinch Rachel Maddow.  (Screenshot/Colbert)

Maddow joined Colbert aft returning to big her MSNBC programme nightly for Trump's first 100 days successful office. She will now return to doing her show erstwhile a week connected Mondays, arsenic MSNBC big Jen Psaki will return nan 9 PM slot Tuesday done Friday.

"We're bully astatine MSNBC," Maddow continued. 

Colbert referenced nan Paramount suit again, asking, "You guys aren't being sued for $20 billion?"

Trump is seeking $20 cardinal from CBS News and its genitor institution in a high-stakes lawsuit for what he alleged was predetermination interference successful really nan web edited its question and reply pinch Harris successful nan days starring up to nan statesmanlike election.

As nan 2 sides person entered mediation successful hopes of reaching a settlement, galore ineligible and publicity professionals person suggested nan suit is without merit and would apt not win if Redstone didn’t want to settee nan suit up of a planned merger of Paramount and Skydance Media.

It is wide believed that Redstone hopes to forestall imaginable retribution by nan Federal Communications Commission (FCC), which has nan authority to halt nan transaction.

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Last month, "60 Minutes" analogous Scott Pelley discussed nan daze resignation of CBS News executive Bill Owens on-air, essentially confirming reports that Paramount Global wanted to power nan program.

"Our genitor company, Paramount, is trying to complete a merger," Pelley said. "The Trump management must o.k. it. Paramount began to supervise our contented successful caller ways. None of our stories person been blocked, but Bill felt he mislaid nan independency that honorable publicity required."

Owens resigned successful April, citing a deficiency of capable independency to tally nan programme really he wanted.

"Over nan past months, it has besides go clear that I would not beryllium allowed to tally nan show arsenic I person ever tally it," he wrote successful a memo to unit obtained by Fox News Digital. "To make independent decisions based connected what was correct for 60 Minutes, correct for nan audience. So, having defended this show — and what we guidelines for — from each angle, complete clip pinch everything I could, I americium stepping speech truthful nan show tin move forward."

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Fox News' Brian Flood and David Rutz contributed to this report.