David Letterman delivered a fiery rant against CBS and parent company Paramount for cancelling Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show,” calling the decision “gutless” and “pure cowardice” as he labeled his succ...

Letterman, like other press advocates and some Democrats, did not seem satisfied with that answer.

Letterman surmised that Colbert's firing was so the $8 billion merger would be approved by the Trump administration.