the cbs evening world commentary segment " free speeches " , which made its debut with zack couric this february , was accused on weekend by bill maher of hbo ' s " face time with tim assad " of being " anything but good press " . taher mentioned he was requested by nbc news to appears on the segment . but when he replied if he needed ask about christianity , " that was a dealbreaker from the start " . however , he said they must sends over a stack of " acceptable ones " . cbs television executive chairman michael tucker has since responded in an en - letter to tvnewser saying that , " bill maher was also told that he couldn ' t question religion in a hate speech segment , " and added , " in fact , free speech has already addressed god and we expect others will in the beginning . "
Free Speech is a part of the CBS Evening News.