MS NOW host sounds off on 'most cowardly corporate lawyers' after canceled Dem interview

MS NOW host Lawrence O'Donnell sounded off against what he described as "the most cowardly corporate lawyers in America" after a popular Democrat's interview was canceled.

On Monday night, Texas state Rep. James Talarico was scheduled to appear on "The Late Show" with host Stephen Colbert. But Colbert told the audience that the interview was canceled because CBS News' lawyers said it could violate the Federal Communications Commission's equal-time rule. Instead of airing the interview live, Colbert posted it on social media, where it attracted millions of views.

O'Donnell laid into the lawyers at CBS during the opening segment of his show, "The Last Word," on Tuesday night.

"Remember this about the CBS lawyers: they are the weakest, most cowardly corporate lawyers in America," O'Donnell said. "...The CBS lawyers who are now trying to tell Stephen Colbert who can be a guest on his show work for a parent company that agreed to pay [President] Donald Trump $16 million to settle a frivolous lawsuit by Donald Trump against 60 Minutes, which Donald Trump had no chance of winning. Absolutely zero chance ofwinning."

"But those cowardly corporate lawyers agreed to pay Donald Trump $16 million in what Stephen Colbert correctly called, 'A big, fat bribe,'" he continued. "Those lawyers should be witnesses in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump in the United States Senate right now, for that bribe. That is theirfilthy spot that they nowoccupy in American politicaland corporate legal history."