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At the last minute, CBS News held a segment about Venezuelan men who were deported by the Trump administration to a prison in El Salvador. It surfaced online anyway.
Weiss, the controversial new editor-in-chief of CBS News, brought the credibility of the network’s flagship program into question after pulling a segment that detailed the grisly conditions at an El Salvador megaprison where Venezuelan men deported by Donald Trump were held.
A 60 Minutes segment that CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss spiked is now available for viewing. The video, which is available on iCloud, was also posted on YouTube by Phil Lewis of HuffPost and was embedded above, but it has since been “removed by the user.” It was also available on the Global TV app before being taken down.
Sharyn Alfonsi, a “60 Minutes” correspondent, criticized the network’s decision to remove her reporting from Sunday’s edition of the show.
The broadcast lineup for tonight’s edition of ’60 Minutes’ has been updated. Our report ‘Inside CECOT’ will air in a future broadcast.”
Minutes” just suffered a severe blow to its credibility. Now one of its own correspondents fears the program is being “dismantled,” and some employees are threatening to quit.