Jimmy Kimmel Says Trump FCC Threatened Him Over Talarico Interview
“It will be posted on YouTube instead.”The decision comes after late night host Stephen Colbert said in February that CBS did not allow him to air an interview with Talarico on The Late Show over concerns about the FCC's "equal time" rules, prompting him to post it on the show's YouTube channel instead. CBS later denied barring Colbert from airing the interview.In the monologue, Kimmel earlier said that Republicans are “very nervous” about November’s midterm elections. They’re in danger of losing a Senate seat in Texas of all places,” Kimmel said.Polls show Talarico is narrowly leading his Republican opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, giving Democrats their best chance in years of winning a Senate race in reliably red Texas.
- ▪“It will be posted on YouTube instead.”The decision comes after late night host Stephen Colbert said in February that CBS did not allow him to air an interview with Talarico on The Late Show over concerns about the FCC's "equal time" rules,
- ▪CBS later denied barring Colbert from airing the interview.In the monologue, Kimmel earlier said that Republicans are “very nervous” about November’s midterm elections.
- ▪They’re in danger of losing a Senate seat in Texas of all places,” Kimmel said.Polls show Talarico is narrowly leading his Republican opponent, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, giving Democrats their best chance in years of winning a Sena
Newsweek files mainly under news. We currently carry 470 of its stories.
Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
inspect →
Story provenance
Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Newsweek |
| Canonical URL | https://www.newsweek.com/jimmy-kimmel-says-trump-fcc-threatened-him-over-talarico-interview-12424161 |
| Publication time | Thu, 10 Sep 2026 03:08:25 -0400 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-10T07:22:00.726Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-10T07:22:00.726Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
By Khaleda RahmanNational Correspondent0ShareNewsweek is a Trust Project memberSee more of our trusted coverage when you search.Prefer Newsweek on Googleto see more of our trusted coverage when you search.Jimmy Kimmel said his interview with Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico will not air on his show on Thursday night because the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had threatened him, his show, ABC and its affiliates.During his Wednesday night monologue on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the host said he will interview Talarico on Thursday night, but that it won’t air on television.
…
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Newsweek.
Discussion
0 commentsMore from Newsweek
