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Here’s Why CBS News Boss Bari Weiss Canceled That ’60 Minutes’ Hit Piece On Trump’s Immigration Policies

By CORRUPTION

The Left promptly lost its mind when CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment focused on illegal aliens and El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison.

Weiss yanked the piece, explaining that it wasn’t ready for air and required additional reporting. In a memo to staff, she laid out in detail why the segment failed to meet basic journalistic standards.

As more facts emerged, it became obvious the meltdown was misplaced. The segment had serious flaws—chief among them, the absence of a current comment from the Trump administration. The correspondent reportedly complained internally about the administration’s supposed “silence,” implying officials had refused to engage.

That narrative collapsed almost immediately. Reports later confirmed the show had received three separate responses: From the Department of Homeland Security, the United States Department of State, and the White House, but the segment’s producers chose to air exactly none of them. That included a detailed, roughly 300-word statement from DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin.

In other words, this was just another Trump administration ‘hit piece’ from CBS News’ ’60 Minutes’ program, which, over the past decade, has become somewhat less of an investigative news program to anti-conservative, anti-MAGA propaganda vehicle.

Here’s the response from the White House, and it’s immediately obvious why 60 Minutes chose to bury it. The statement completely demolishes the segment’s preferred framing of “poor illegal aliens” as the sympathetic protagonists and instead recenters the discussion where it belongs: on American citizens, public safety, and the rule of law:

The statement from White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said, according to the New York Times, “60 Minutes should spend their time and energy amplifying the stories of Angel Parents, whose innocent American children have tragically been murdered by vicious illegal aliens that President Trump are [sic] removing from the country.”

It also raises an obvious question—one the liberal media would rather not answer. Where are the stories of the Angel parents? Where is the wall-to-wall coverage of Americans whose children were murdered by illegal aliens? Why is there no interest in hearing from people like Angel Mom Agnes Gibboney, who speaks plainly about what she calls the real family separation—the permanent kind, where a child is gone forever?

The 60 Minutes segment still managed to air in Canada via the Global Television app—but even there, the imbalance was glaring. Viewers were given only a brief, outdated remark from White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt and an older quote from Donald Trump praising El Salvador’s prison system. That’s it. Meanwhile, the show sat on fresh, detailed responses crafted specifically to address the segment’s claims—responses that would have provided real-time rebuttal and much-needed context. They were simply ignored.

Given that, it’s easy to see why Bari Weiss concluded the piece wasn’t fit for broadcast and demanded changes. Journalism doesn’t mean cherry-picking quotes that support a narrative while suppressing current, on-the-record responses that complicate it. Balance isn’t optional—it’s the job.

Weiss has since made clear she intends to overhaul editorial standards across CBS News, implementing consistent procedures that all programs will be required to follow. That’s unambiguously good for journalism. It also all but guarantees more tantrums from liberal media figures unaccustomed to being told they can’t cut corners or run advocacy dressed up as reporting.

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