CBS News head Bari Weiss canceled a “60 Minutes” segment on how the Trump administration illegally flew a group of Venezuelan men to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison in March. The story was pulled only hours before “60 Minutes” aired on CBS, but a preview of the segment was saved and posted on Twitter/X.
This is the now deleted teaser for the 60 Minutes report that was supposed to air tonight on the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador that Donald Trump sent hundreds of migrants to. CBS is officially a mouthpiece for the Trump administration thanks to Bari Weiss https://t.co/uRoFh2YdFo pic.twitter.com/aE1cbOXxAl
— Marco Foster (@MarcoFoster_) December 21, 2025
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi L. Noem admitted in a federal court filing that she defied a judge’s ruing when she ordered Venezuelan detainees to be flown to El Salvador’s CECOT prison in March, reports The Washington Post.
The New York Times reports that “60 Minutes” correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi criticized the network’s decision to remove her story from Sunday’s edition of the show:
CBS announced the change three hours before the broadcast, a highly unusual last-minute switch. The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment. CBS News said in a statement that the segment would air at a later date and “needed additional reporting.”
But Sharyn Alfonsi, the veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent who reported the segment, rejected that criticism in a private note to CBS colleagues on Sunday, in which she accused CBS News of pulling the segment for “political” reasons.
“Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices,” Ms. Alfonsi wrote in the note, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times. “It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now, after every rigorous internal check has been met, is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.”
(Sources: New York Times, CBS, The Washington Post)