davi words that we're not going to mention here. here is howard kurtz, fox news media analyst and "mediabuzz" host. good to see you, howie. are folks at cbs worried about this? >> they should be. stephen colbert gotten a big surge in the ratings as he has gotten full anti-trump but this joke was so far beneath him a sex joke between trump and putin, i was surprised he didn't come out look, folks i'm sorry, that one went too far. instead as you said he doubled down. he decided that will be the signature of the cbs late show, beating up on the president. david: i know people talk a lot about the how there is total independence but sometimes you can get a nudge from somebody, one of the suits at cbs, maybe nudging him to say something. do you think there has been any of that at all. >> maybe there was a little nudge, perhaps he should have used different words. cbs shoulding held accountable here. this was a pretaped show. some suit at cbs had to say it was okay to put this on. he didn't blurt it out. it was scripted. kind of thing even though we're