The TV channel CBS and the parent company Paramount have called the closure a "financial decision", but Letterman does not buy the explanation.
I do not think it was about money, he says in a conversation on
with his old producer Barbara Gaines.
It was last week that the news of the closure came, just days after Colbert heavily criticized that Paramount had agreed to pay 16 million dollars to Donald Trump in a settlement about an interview with Kamala Harris in "60 minutes" that the president claimed was biased.
It's actually all about appeasing Trump so that the film studio Skydance's purchase of Paramount will be approved by American authorities, according to Letterman.
One day the people at CBS who have manipulated and handled this will be ashamed. This is spineless, he says.
David Letterman became the host of "Late show" in 1993 and hosted the talk show in over 6,000 episodes before he retired in 2015 and handed over to Colbert.
