{"id":310657,"date":"2025-12-29T12:02:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T12:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=310657"},"modified":"2025-12-26T07:32:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T07:32:30","slug":"heres-the-60-minutes-segment-trump-and-cbs-news-executives-dont-want-you-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2025\/12\/heres-the-60-minutes-segment-trump-and-cbs-news-executives-dont-want-you-to-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Here\u2019s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don\u2019t Want You to See"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_310659\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cecot-60-minutes-prison-el-salvador-trump.webp\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-310659\" class=\"wp-image-310659\" src=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cecot-60-minutes-prison-el-salvador-trump.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cecot-60-minutes-prison-el-salvador-trump.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cecot-60-minutes-prison-el-salvador-trump-300x100.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cecot-60-minutes-prison-el-salvador-trump-768x256.webp 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-310659\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot of an unauthorized \u201c60 Minutes\u201d segment about a prison in El Salvador where the Trump administration sent hundreds of migrants. The piece was blocked from airing by CBS News\u2019 editor-in-chief Bari Weiss over objections of the reporters who put the story together. (Image: Screengrab\/60 Minutes\/CBS News)<\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p>23 Dec 2025 &#8211; \u201cInside CECOT\u201d &#8211; <em>Hours before it was set to air last night, CBS News executives pulled the segment, but Canada\u2019s Global TV app received it prior to broadcast.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">(If you already know the background of this story, the video is down at the bottom)<\/h5>\n<p>The report examined the Trump administration\u2019s controversial deportation of more than 250 people \u2014 most of them Venezuelan nationals \u2014 to CECOT, a sprawling prison in El Salvador where detainees were held under severe conditions. The segment featured interviews with deportees who described brutal treatment and alleged abuse inside the facility.<\/p>\n<p>The decision to pull the story was made by CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss, and it triggered a firestorm within the network and, subsequently, in the public. Here\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3MOBzqv\"  rel=\"\">some info<\/a> on the controversy and when I update this story shortly, I will link to additional reporting, but I wanted to publish this video immediately as a version of it was taken down on YouTube.<\/p>\n<p>It turns out that the network delivered the segment to Canada\u2019s Global TV app (it has since been pulled).<\/p>\n<p>As I understand it, this is only part of the overall story, but this 13-minute-long video\u2014 sent to me by a source \u2014is what exists.<\/p>\n<p>(An earlier version of this story had a video that was filmed with someone\u2019s smart phone, this is a broadcast quality version)<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BREAKING: The 60 Minutes CECOT Segment the WH Doesn\u2019t Want You To See\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2E4kZkaXPcY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thereset.news\/p\/breaking-heres-the-60-minutes-segment\" >Go to Original &#8211; thereset.news<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>23 Dec 2025 &#8211; Inside CECOT-Center for the Confinement of Terrorism &#8211; Hours before it was set to air last night, CBS News executives pulled this segment. The report examined the Trump administration\u2019s controversial deportation of more than 250 people \u2014 most of them Venezuelan nationals \u2014 to CECOT in El Salvador.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[168],"tags":[2532,2375,3480,3541,3096,1785,2314,550,2663,2882,1678,2881,1855,234,2759,249,70],"class_list":["post-310657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-depth-videos","tag-60-minutes","tag-alternative-media","tag-anti-immigration","tag-cbs-news","tag-cecot-center-for-the-confinement-of-terrorism","tag-censorship","tag-corporate-media","tag-corruption","tag-el-salvador","tag-engaged-journalism","tag-investigative-journalism","tag-journalistic-ethics","tag-mainstream-media-msm","tag-media","tag-prisons","tag-trump","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310657"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310706,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310657\/revisions\/310706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}