‘60 Minutes’ story held for lacking interview with Trump official airs without one

After accusations of “corporate censorship,” CBS aired a postponed “60 Minutes” segment about the CECOT prison that was largely unchanged.

In December, CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss shelved a “60 Minutes” story about the Trump administration deporting Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador’s CECOT prison. The reason, Weiss told staff: The segment didn’t have an on-camera interview with a Trump administration official.

On Sunday evening — four weeks later — the story aired with minimal changes and without an on-camera interview with a Trump administration official.

The segment included a new introduction that said: “Since November, ‘60 Minutes’ has made several attempts to interview key Trump administration officials on camera about our story. They declined our requests.”