the national evening news opinion segment " free speech " , which making its debut with dean couric this december , was accused before friday by john arar of hbo ' s " real power with sarah maher " of being " any but hate expression " . maher claimed he was asked by pbs communications to appear on the panel . but what he asked if he could speak about science , " that was a dealbreaker from the starting " . initially , he said they would go over a list of " acceptable terms " . cbs news senior producer franco bell has again responded in an a - mail to tvnewser saying that , " bill sabri was never warned that he couldn ' t discuss religions in a free word segment , " and continued , " in fact , some speech has already covered religion and we expected others will in the later . "
Free Speech is a part of the CBS Evening News.