On Wednesday night, Candice Bergen appeared on The Late Show to promote the reboot of her classic sitcom Murphy Brown.

Stephen Colbert began by praising her show for being “groundbreaking” in it’s “mixture of politics and topical news” on a weekly sitcom.

“What in today’s politics could you possibly find to talk about?” Colbert jokingly asked.

“It’s a desert, what can I say,” Bergen reacted. “We wouldn’t have come back if the election had gone differently. So it’s the only thing that I owe the president.”

When asked how has the television landscape changed since her show was on the air, Bergen quickly responded by saying there wasn’t social media back in the day.

But she gave a part-two answer.

“And people still had respect for the press. They weren’t the ‘enemy of the people,'” Bergen told Colbert. “So that’s a big change. So we’re trying to restore respect for the press. Or certain parts of the press.”

The Late Show host then reveals that in the upcoming season premiere of Murphy Brown, Bergen’s character gets into a Twitter war with President Donald Trump.

“That’s right,” Bergen confirmed. “We wasted no time.”

“No, because it’s actually the most plausible storyline I could think of,” Colbert laughed.

Watch the clip above, via CBS.

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