Stephen Colbert isn't backing down in an extraordinary public dispute with his bosses at CBS over what he can air on his late-night talk show. On “The Late Show” Tuesday, Colbert said he was surprised by a statement from CBS denying that its lawyers told him he couldn't show an interview with Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico —

I don’t even know what to do with this,” Colbert said about the network’s news release on a scrapped interview with a Democratic politician, before putting the paper in a dog waste bag.

Late Show” host Stephen Colbert on Tuesday slammed CBS and its attorneys for releasing what he called a “****” statement about his show. Then, he treated the statement like actual ****: He picked it up in a dog waste bag and carefully disposed of it.

CBS said "The Late Show" could not air an interview with U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico, prompting host Stephen Colbert to blame the FCC.

CBS said it did not force “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” to pull an interview with Texas state Rep. James Talarico from its TV broadcast Monday, contrary to the way the late-night host had framed it.

Late-night host Stephen Colbert was stopped from having Senate candidate James Talarico of Texas on his show Monday night because of the FCC's latest enforcement of 'equal time' rules.

Stephen Colbert has accused CBS of refusing to broadcast his interview with Democratic Texas state Rep. James Talarico, a U.S. Senate candidate, out of fear of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

Stephen Colbert said CBS’s legal department spiked his interview with a Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate because of the FCC chairman’s recent warning that the agency would pursue enforcement of “equal time” rules on late-night and daytime talk shows.