Critics say yanked segment reeks of political pressure

News of the segment’s cancellation rippled across the media and political ecosystems overnight Sunday.

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill who are often critical of Trump and his allies seized on the incident, arguing it was further evidence that the administration’s efforts to intimidate news outlets are working.

“What is happening to CBS is a terrible embarrassment and if executives think they can build shareholder value by avoiding journalism that might offend the Mad King they are about to learn a tough lesson,” Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) wrote on the social platform X. “This is still America and we don’t enjoy bulls— like this.”

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said the decision hurts the network’s reputation.

“A free press isn’t free if stories get shelved just because the powerful won’t talk,” Khanna said in a social media post of his own. “CBS pulling the CECOT story on Venezuelan deportees sent to El Salvador’s brutal prison erodes trust. We are losing trust that government and media serve us, not the elite.”

Former Rep. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.), a Republican and leading Trump critic, posted screenshots of him canceling his membership to Paramount+, the company’s direct-to-consumer streaming service.

“State owned media,” the former congressman wrote in a string of social media posts blasting the network.
However, CBS’s new top leader is not backing down from a decision she says was necessary to maintain fairness to the administration.
Weiss defends decision

Weiss defended her decision to pull the segment by saying it lacked proper context and comment from administration officials.

“I look forward to airing this important piece when it’s ready,” she said in a statement on Sunday issued to The New York Times. “My job is to make sure that all stories we publish are the best they can be.”

Weiss added, “Holding stories that aren’t ready for whatever reason — that they lack sufficient context, say, or that they are missing critical voices — happens every day in every newsroom.”

The CBS News boss further addressed the decision in a morning call, according to CNN’s Brian Stelter.

“I held a ’60 Minutes’ story because it was not ready,” Stelter quoted Weiss as saying. “While the story presented powerful testimony of torture at CECOT, it did not advance the ball—the Times and other outlets have previously done similar work. The public knows that Venezuelans have been subjected to horrific treatment at this prison. To run a story on this subject two months later, we need to do more. And this is ’60 Minutes.’ We need to be able to get the principals on the record and on camera.”

Alfonsi said the White House did not respond to requests for comment on the story.

“Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill the story,” the correspondent wrote to colleagues. “If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient.”

Paramount pursues major mergers

Led by Ellison, the son of tech tycoon and Trump ally Larry Ellison, Paramount has emerged as one of the world’s most scrutinized media conglomerates in recent months.

The company merged with fellow moviemaker Skydance this summer after it paid a $16 million settlement to the Trump administration over a “60 Minutes” interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris that aired last fall, which Trump sued over.

The company also canceled Trump critic and comedian Stephen Colbert’s late-night show and explicitly promised the Federal Communications Commission it will focus more on representing a “diverse set of viewpoints” in its news coverage moving forward.

The latest controversy at “60 Minutes” comes as the Ellisons are mounting a hostile bid for Warner Brothers Discovery, the massive media company that owns top brands in news and entertainment like TNT Sports and CNN.

Trump has expressed a desire to see CNN operate under new ownership.

The Ellisons have reportedly lobbied Trump directly, hoping he will support their bid, which would create one of the largest media companies on earth and need to clear government regulators.

“This is what government censorship looks like,” said Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.). “Trump approved the Paramount-Skydance merger. A few months later, CBS’s new editor in chief kills a deeply reported story critical of Trump. A sad day for ’60 Minutes’ and journalism.”

>>1468457
So now censorship is bad?
>Waaahh It's only okay when WE do it!

>>1468461
Thanks for confirming we need to trust bust all media so no one has more than 5% Market share.
This includes social media as well.

>>1468461
>How odd liberal, you can't tolerate MY old tv show where they just say outright slurs, but when I remove the documentary showing how the Trump admin is sending people to a literal torture camp, suddenly you don't like removing things? How hypocritical

>>1468461
Who censored you?

>>1468461
>So now censorship is bad?
1. Knowingly concealing true information that is of public interest for political reasons is a violation of journalistic ethics in the exact same way that knowingly spreading false information would be.
2. CBS's leadership is free to censor whatever they want.
3. Their employees and audience don't have to like it.

Nobody upset about this is upset on grounds that information was censored willingly by an organization that has the right to do that shit. News orgs pull and edit stories all the fucking time. It would be terrible if they couldn't. Government censorship is the bad kind.

The problem is the dishonest politicization of ostensibly journalistic coverage.

>>1468476
Also Bari Weiss was installed specifically to push pro Republican stories by CBS.

>>1468457
LMAO, like anybody gives a shit.

>>1468485
>Who cares about the government sending people to a foreign torture camp on false charges
>It would never happen to me

>>1468488
>It would never happen to me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p63djQjKe0I

>>1468489
>They'll stop at the browns. Obviously when the government starts sending people to torture camps on false charges, they never escalate further on who they send there

>>1468490
Jews are building a technocracy. If anything they would just drone strike us with Palantir for having too low of a social credit score.

Marcille's dungeon lord attire is very becoming.

>>1468485
>Censorship is good when republicans do it.
Guess it'll be okay for democrats to froceablely install people are Fox News and kill negative stories about them.

>>1468488
Well yeah. I follow the law.

>>1468544
Yeah so did they.

>>1468545
>enter the country illegally
>following the law
Pick one.

They censored themselves because they left it all off the gang violence and tried to get an emotional reaction instead of reporting that those are murderers

>>1468551
>>1468554
>https://www.cato.org/blog/50-venezuelans-imprisoned-el-salvador-came-us-legally-never-violated-immigration-law
Whoops.

>>1468555
>A tiny number of them never murdered anyone, so you could are completely wrong and that's why we need a million more
Cool

>>1468556
Even one is too many

>>1468556
>Guys who cares if 1/5th of the people we sent into the literal torture camp where they have no rights and will be constantly abused didn't actually commit any crimes or even come here illegally
Yeah the ideal number of completely innocent people the US should be sending to a foreign torture camp for a life sentence is fucking 0. And if they can send people there having committed no crimes, what's stopping them from sending you there?

>>1468560
They are criminals the moment they illegally invade the country.

>>1468562
you are an esl faggot every time you post on our internet

>>1468562
Which they didn't do. They came here legally and then got abducted and thrown into a foreign torture camp.

>>1468563
>>1468564
sorry fags, a nonwhite schizo who has been brainwashed to fear white replacement has just as valid of an opinion as both of you put together.

>>1468555
>https://www.cato.org/
Oh boy here we go. Let me guess: "They came here and claimed asylum so legal!"
>These legal immigrants include a temporary visa holder and four men who were authorized to travel through the US refugee program. The government vetted these refugees abroad and concluded that they would face persecution, letting them resettle in the United States.
Fucking called it.

>>1468567
>yes, they did follow the law but I was told the law is bad and have no other argument
I need more insights from you, retarded nowhite schizo

>>1468567
Yeah so, they went through the legal process and got cleared to remain here legally. And then the government abducted them to a torture camp.

>>1468570
NTA, but from the article
>Most, at least 42, were labeled as gang members primarily based on their tattoos, which Venezuelan gangs do not use to identify members and are not reliable indicators of gang membership.
The CATO institute is blatantly lying at this point.

>>1468579
We literally saw the Trump admin do this live to Garcia and get debunked. It absolutely fucking happened.

>>1468580
>deboonked
lol
So what you're saying is that a bunch of NGO's + white liberal women got together on twitter, spammed social media with false information, and now you've been led to believe that two nation-states are lying to you because of muh racism.

ManufraCtured consent

>>1468583
Well, Trump posted a bunch of tattoos alleging they showed gang membership, which was incredibly obviously bullshit because literally nothing about them correlated to ms-13 at all. So I'd imagine they did the same for others to justify sending them there.

BTW Garcia was brought back and even the Trump admin dropped their claims of him being a gang member.

>>1468583
do you think posting like a poltard gives you credibility or something? your brain is mush

>>1468585
>Have literal gang tattoos
>He's not a gang memeber, just a huge fan
>deboonked

>>1468585
This BTFO has already been memoryholed by the shill
You should be embarrassed even bringing it up

>>1468585
>BTW Garcia was brought back
NTA, why was he brought back? He came here illegally.

>>1468585
>which was incredibly obviously bullshit because literally nothing about them correlated to ms-13 at all
Then why was he arrested and deported? Was it because of muh racism?

>>1468593
Unironically yes. The government literally had nothing on him; in fact he wasn't even supposed to be deported in the first place, they just flat out ignored the order to let him remain.

>check up on the Garcia case to catch up with relevant news
>lawyer's name is Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg
I can't even

>>1468589
Ok so can we deport Hegseth next? He's got a lot of tattoos too.

>>1468592
He was deported illegally. He was cleared to stay in the US by a judge for asylum reasons.

>>1468595
>The government literally had nothing on him
His stay of deportation was to Guatemala, not El Salvador, and he was caught trafficking illegals to maryland.

>>1468590
Proof?

>>1468598
>His stay of deportation was to Guatemala, not El Salvador
Nope he had a general stay.

> he was caught trafficking illegals to maryland.
Unproven and their case against him that they slapped together to justify deporting him after the fact is falling apart. The only thing he's guilty of is carpooling with coworkers.

>>1468601
>Nope he had a general stay.
No, the court documents specify Guatemala. Because that's where he was originally from. He feared for his life due to gang violence.
>Unproven and their case against him that they slapped together to justify deporting him after the fact is falling apart.
They have him on video. He was also caught soliciting CSAM from minors.
You want to defend him? Go nuts.

>>1468603
>No, the court documents specify Guatemala
Yeah even the government admitted the judge actually meant El Salvador specifically. Guatemala was a communication error and wasn't on the final order.
>They have him on video. He was also caught soliciting CSAM from minors.
Wow you really just slap whatever on there lol.
>Uh shit they're gonna point out the only "video" they have is a cop pulling him over while he had friends/co-workers in his car and letting him go without issue. Let me throw in some random pedo allegations to flood the zone

>>1468604
>Guatemala was a communication error and wasn't on the final order.
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25916382-kilmar-abrego-garcia-ij-order-dated-10-10-2019/
>The Respondent's application for asylum is time-barred without exception. However, he has established past persecution based on a protected ground, and the presumption of a well-founded fear of future persecution. DHS has not shown there are changed circumstances in Guatemala that would result in the Respondent's life not being threatened, or that internal relocation is possible and reasonable under the circumstances. Therefore, the Respondent's application for withholding under the Act is granted.
>Wow you really just slap whatever on there lol.
It is amazing how much you faggots have managed to screw up society by blaming everything on racism.

>>1468605
>https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/an-administrative-error-sends-a-man-to-a-salvadoran-prison/682254/
>But in Monday’s court filing, attorneys for the government admitted that the Salvadoran man, Kilmar Abrego Garcia, had been deported accidentally. “Although ICE was aware of his protection from removal to El Salvador, Abrego Garcia was removed to El Salvador because of an administrative error,” the government told the court. Trump lawyers said the court has no ability to bring Abrego Garcia back now that he is in Salvadoran custody.
BTW Garcia is FROM El Salvador and immigrated from there. Listing it as Guatemala was a mistake; he isn't from there and has never lived there.

>>1468597
>He was cleared to stay in the US by a judge for asylum reasons.
After coming here illegally, like those 50 people in your cato.org source.

>>1468610
Yeah that's how asylum claims work retard.

>>1468610
I'm a millionaire and you're just patently wrong.
Can you let white people have a reasonable conversation, or are you going to keep fucking it up with your natural inferiority?

>>1468609
>BTW Garcia is FROM El Salvador and immigrated from there.
Cool, doesn't change the fact that the withholding order is to Guatemala faggot.

>>1468613
ICE literally admitted it was to El Salvador. The initial document lists the wrong country, hence why it randomly lists him coming from Guatemala; it was corrected later. You gonna argue that ICE was wrong when they admitted under oath that they fucked up now?

>>1468611
>come here illegally
>claim asylum when caught
>"See! He came here legally!"
Fuck off. This is why Trump won again.

>>1468616
So you don't understand how filing for asylum works. Thanks.

>>1468614
>ICE literally admitted it was to El Salvador.
No, a lawyer for the Trump admin did, who was then fired for legal misconduct because he admitted something that wasn't true.

>>1468617
Did Garcia enter the country illegally? Yes or no.

>>1468618
>who was then fired for legal misconduct because he admitted something that wasn't true.
Yeah that didn't happen either. The Trump admin didn't like admitting the truth and removed him; he had zero misconduct claims. Three more lawyers left BECAUSE they fired him for no reason.

That same lawyer would later whistleblow the admin actually TOLD HIM to commit legal misconduct by alleging Garcia was a terrorist with no evidence.

>>1468619
Yes; legal entrance is retroactive.

>>1468620
>The Trump admin didn't like admitting the truth and removed him
The lawyer's own words contradicted the 2019 withholding order you retard. He unintentionally lied under oath.

>>1468621
>Yes
Cool. So another illegal in this country that never should've come here and wouldn't be here if faggot democrats like you didn't exist. I'm glad ICE is throwing them out as fast as they can, so you can fuck off and miss me with that "oh but it will happen to you too one day" like you fucks didn't try when Biden was in.

>>1468623
Seeking asylum is legal retard. It doesn't care about how you enter; if you're allowed to stay, your entrance wasn't illegal. Continue coping.

>>1468622
>He unintentionally lied under oath.
Oh so he was charged for that, right? Right? Surely you can produce him being charged for lying under oath, which would disbar him? Right???

Hell, I'll make it even easier; produce one source saying he lied under oath at all in actual legal context. Just one.

>>1468624
>It doesn't care about how you enter
lol what a liar.
You need to seek asylum at a port of entry, not after you tunnel under the border.

>>1468626
>You need to seek asylum at a port of entry
Yeah. You go to a port of entry to do so; it's the location where you can file. You don't have to have entered from one.

>>1468625
>Oh so he was charged for that, right?
Perjury requires that you willfully and knowingly lie under oath, retard.
Just because this faggot retard didn't read the conclusion of a court document (just like you) doesn't mean he broke the law.

>>1468627
>You don't have to have entered from one.
You geninely have no idea what you're talking about.
Crossing the border illegally is a requirement to seek asylum, but it needs to be done at the appropriate place. You can't spontaneously appear inside the interior and expect to be given the same treatment as someone who willingly entered an ICE facility.

>>1468624
>Seeking asylum is legal retard.
Ah ah ah, you already admitted he came here illegally. Don't backtrack now faggot.

>>1468628
Ok. Still waiting on literally any claim that he lied under oath accidentally too. Not even the admin is trying your damage control; they know the order was updated to say El Salvador instead and Garcia's deportation was illegal. Even the document you linked literally says he was born in El Salvador.

But hey I'm sure you can prove me wrong, right? You can produce a source that says that lawyer lied under oath, even accidentally, right?

>>1468630
Yep. And then asylum claims meant he could stay legally. That's how asylum law works. It literally doesn't matter how you get in; if you have a valid claim, any entry retroactively becomes valid.

>>1468629
>Crossing the border illegally is a requirement to seek asylum, but it needs to be done at the appropriate place.
>The legality doesn't matter but you can only do it illegally from some places

>You can't spontaneously appear inside the interior and expect to be given the same treatment as someone who willingly entered an ICE facility.
Actually yes you can because all asylum claims care about is if they are valid or not. And you don't go to ICE facilities to file asylum claims at all.

>>1468632
>durrr you'll be sorry when it happens to you
>Well yeah. I follow the law.
>b-bu-but whatabout these 50 ille- ahem, refugees. Muh Abrego Garcia.
>Did he come here illegally?
>Well... yeah

>>1468632
Why are you wasting your time trying to explain US immigration law to a foreign troll being paid to deliberately misunderstand your posts?

>>1468636
I'm going to laugh my ass off when your mother gets sent back to India.

>>1468634
He followed the law too lmao. So did the other 50 who were here legally. But hey, obviously a government with a foreign torture site where prisoners are allowed no contact with the outside world or legal council would NEVER escalate who it sends there, right?

>>1468637
You've already established you're a dumbass who thinks its funny when legal US residents get returned to countries they've never been to

>>1468638
Well seeing as how I'm a natural born citizen who didn't break any fucking laws, I think I'll be fine. Keep crying over Trump tearing up the 'get out of jail free card' you fucks gave illegals.

>>1468639
>cross into the country illegally
>NOOOO DE WUZ LEGAL N SHIEEET
lol

>>1468639
Illegally claiming asylum isn't legal immigration

>>1468642
why

>>1468643
The scary part is this leftist is serious when he asks such a stupid question.

>>1468643
Stop being retarded, shill

>>1468645
so you don't know?
why are you pretending to know something when you're ignorant of the details?

>>1468646
>crosses into the country illegally
>get caught and arrested hanging around MS-13 members in 2019
>Applies for asylum after getting caught
>retard dems think this is how our immigration process should work

>>1468647
So you have nothing, don't understand how US immigration works, and are just whining because you're retarded and don't have anything to back up your ESL shill claims?
This is why you can't be an American. Poor work ethics, brown hands, and willing to accept bad pay to make shittier arguments

>>1468648
Thank you for confirming that you're another shit leftist who thinks criminals should have a pathway to citizenship if they get caught by police. This is why nobody takes your crying about ICE seriously.

>>1468649
who are you responding to?
Did you get your shill threads mixed up?

>>1468648
You cannot be a gang member, fleeing gang violence, and claim asylum

>>1468651
Well you see it's actually very simple; he wasn't a gang member and the biggest "proof" he was that the admin can offer was a bunch of random tattoos.

>>1468652
>retard leftist claims that an immigrant wasn't a gang member
>but in actuality he was a gang member as shown in No Sources Found

>>1468652
https://www.justice.gov/ag/media/1396906/dl
Officers C-Ontacted a past proven and reliable source of
infonnation, who advised K il mar Armando ABREGO-GARCIA is an active member of MS-13 with
the Westerns clique. The confidential source further advised that he is the rank of "Chequeo" with the
moniker of "Chele",

That aside, still came here illegally. In a just world where democrats don't exist, he wouldn't have a loophole to stay in the country after getting caught and detained by police. But they do love their illegals.

>>1468656
>Guys after we got caught directly violating a legal order we found our anonymous source who says he's totally a high ranking ms-13 guy
>Trust us guys we wouldn't lie to cover our asses at all. Trust in the anonymous source
No.

>In a just world where democrats don't exist, he wouldn't have a loophole to stay in the country after getting caught and detained by police
Sucks to suck nerd. Asylum law is the law and you can't change that.

>>1468657
>Asylum law is the law and you can't change that.
Give Trump some more time and he will. Then you'll really start rioting when all your precious slave labor dries up.

>>1468659
I'm sure you'll pretend this isn't cope and continue lying about it in the future

>>1468659
>Give Trump some more time and he will.
Yeah good luck achieving the congressional super majority required. Especially after the epstein files.

>>1468660
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-ice-asylum-cases-deportations/
Care to explain why these people can't find refuge in other countries besides the US, like Abrego Garcia?

>>1468662
>dems are going to vote for the candidates in favor of illegal immigrants, drug dealers, violent criminals and gang violence because of the Epstein files

>>1468662
He can always do executive order like Biden.

>>1468664
I'll keep laughing as you desperately shift around to completely different goal posts as you keep losing

>>1468665
>>1468666
And you've run out of arguments. Thanks for the concession.

>>1468668
>>1468671
>Trump can't do that!
>Yes he can. Here's how.
>DURRR GOALPOSTS
Whether the loophole gets closed or not, I will still be here enjoying your tears as they take another illegal criminal (redundant) out of the country and send them back where they belong.

>>1468674
He can't but keep being upset.

>>1468678
>implying
Last I checked it was the left shooting ICE agents because they're so upset about illegals getting kicked out. Meanwhile I'm getting everything I voted for.

>shilly esl pretends to vote in the US election

>>1468679
>Meanwhile I'm getting everything I voted for.
Lower prices, greater home value, and higher wages?

>>1468743
More guns, less illegals, cheaper gas and democrats on suicide watch.

>>1468745
America lost and you're the problem.

>>1468679
Patriots are shooting ICE agents because ICE agents are a modern day gestapo.

>>1468750
QQ moar fag.

>>1468752
>Everyone I don't like is a nazi!
Please keep it up. I love it when leftists act like the animals you all are.

>>1468755
do you like being called a nazi because you can pretend to be white

>>1468756
its not their fault dad raped a brown and stole their potential before they were born
trump is a hero because he only rapes white women

>>1468743
>>1468745
The epic cope. The willful ignorance. The casual hate. The classic MAGA

>>1468755
Nobody said everyone, just you and the gestapo.

>>1468760
Nobody said Trump only rapes white women. He might have done a brown girl for all we know.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/cbs-frantically-tries-to-stop-people-from-seeing-censored-60-minutes/
Canada aired the segment that the trump regime desperately tried to hide and they're doing everything to censor it online now.

>>1468806
Chuds will ignore it

>>1468806
Hell yeah, Canada.

>>1468809
>>1468811
It's funny how there's like 20 separate uploads on Internet archive now.

>>1468659
>trump
>time

is one thing he doesn't have. mfker is dying in front of us and if that doesn't happen, he's getting impeached at the midterms.