Jasmine Crockett Says She Has Not Been Invited On Colbert’s Show Since Opponent’s Segment Got Pulled

Democratic Texas Rep. Jasmine Crockett said on Friday that she was never invited on CBS’ “Late Night with Stephen Colbert” after her opponent’s segment was pulled to comply with the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) guidelines.

CBS decided not to air Colbert’s interview with Democratic Texas state Rep. James Talarico on Monday due to the network’s concern that the segment could violate the FCC’s equal time rule, which would require Colbert’s program to give Crockett airtime since she is his primary opponent in the Senate race. Crockett said on “Morning Joe” that she never received an invitation to appear on the program before or after the interview with Talarico.

“No, I’ve not been invited on Colbert prior to his interview nor post his interview,” Crockett said. “Obviously, I’ve done Colbert twice in the past.And so there were questions that people had about whether or not basically equal time, soto speak, had been offered to me in order to try to avoid Brendan Carr and hismisinterpretation or his reinterpretation of the rules.The only information that I got was after this debacle took place, I did receive a phonecall from the parent company, from a representative for the parent company that basically saidthey did not tell them they couldn’t air it.” 

“They just said, if you air it, just make sure that you offer the representative equal time,” Crockett continued. “Now, obviously, I wasn’t engaged in that conversation, so I cannot confirm the veracity of anystatements. But I can confirm that I had never been asked to go on as it relates to kindof talking about the Senate race.”

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