Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) blasted CBS for announcing it will cancel comedian and host Stephen Colbert's "Late Show," pressing for more transparency on the decision.

The move comes shortly after Colbert publicly took CBS's parent company Paramount Global to task for settling a $16 million lawsuit with President Trump.

"CBS canceled Colbert's show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump — a deal that looks like bribery," Warren wrote Thursday on social platform X. "America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons."

Schiff, who was a guest on Colbert's show Thursday — when the news broke —

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