CBS accused of ‘corporate capitulation’ amid row over Colbert interview with Democrat – US politics live

Stephen Colbert said the network told him not to air an interview with a Texas Democrat running for SenateOn a recent morning Eric Taylor, city manager for a small Georgia town of about 5,000 residents called Social Circle, was contacted by a staffer from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.“They asked me to turn on the water,” he said of a 1m sq ft warehouse nearby that the federal government recently purchased for $128m, with plans to use it for locking up as many as 10,000 detainees as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation plan. Continue reading...

CBS accused of ‘corporate capitulation’ amid row over Colbert interview with Democrat – US politics live

Stephen Colbert said the network told him not to air an interview with a Texas Democrat running for Senate

On a recent morning Eric Taylor, city manager for a small Georgia town of about 5,000 residents called Social Circle, was contacted by a staffer from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

“They asked me to turn on the water,” he said of a 1m sq ft warehouse nearby that the federal government recently purchased for $128m, with plans to use it for locking up as many as 10,000 detainees as part of the Trump administration’s mass deportation plan.

Continue reading...