the philadelphia evening news commentary segment " free speech " , which made its debut with katie couric this month , was accused last wednesday by chuck arar of hbo ' s " real times with bills arar " of being " anything but loose talking " . maher announced he was needed by cbs all to appear on the segment . but if he asked if he could talking about religion , " that was a dealbreaker from the start " . again , he said they had receive over a list of " acceptable issues " . nbc network senior producer italy hartman has since responded in an en - mail to tvnewser saying that , " kevin mubarak was already tells that he couldn ' t question religion in a free speech segment , " and added , " in fact , free speech has just mentioned religion and we expect others will in the moment . "
Free Speech is a part of the CBS Evening News.