As has been widely reported, CBS’ “60 Minutes” announced that it would release a program about the notorious prison in El Salvador– CECOT–where the U.S. sent migrant prisoners, who were allegedly hardened criminals, “the worst of the worst.”
The program interviews released prisoners, who describe torture, beatings, and inhumane conditions that would never be permitted in U.S. prisons. It also reviewed records and concluded that few of those sent to CECOT were hardened criminals or terrorists.
Bari Weiss, the editor-in/chief of CBS News, stopped the release of the segment because no one in the Trump administration agreed to respond to it. Critics said that if that was legitimate grounds for blocking a story, the Trump administration could block all critical coverage by refusing to comment.
After CBS was sold to the Ellison billionaires, David Ellison hired Bari Weiss to be editor-in-chief and bought her website “The Free Press” for $150 million. Weiss has no experience in the broadcast industry.
Apparently the show aired in Canada, where a viewer copied it and posted it on Reddit.
Here is the link on Reddit. Decide for yourself whether Weiss was right to stop the show until someone from the Trump administration commented.
“Go to ProgressiveHQr/ProgressiveHQ13h agoCrystalVibes52
The 60 minutes interview that was not aired in the US was aired and recorded in Canada and posted on YouTube. It has since been taken down. No worries though, I screen recorded it.“
See it before it is taken down.
It was originally posted on YouTube but was taken down.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
A classic mistake in the internet age. Weiss forgot (or never knew) how things get distributed and didn’t kill the YouTube release or the Canadian broadcast, that’s her inexperience showing. But once it’s happened, it’s done. As the Reddit video shows, there are bound to be copies on hard drives all over the US and Canada by now. This thing will never go away and they can’t even release a version that’s more favorable to Trump now, since we have the original to compare it to. If Weiss has the sense god gave a lemon she’ll air it this Sunday and get past the whole thing as quickly as possible. She won’t, of course, because the Ellisons don’t want to antagonize Trump, but this will just keep getting worse for 60 Minutes and CBS News until she does.
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Let’s hope that the core staff of “60 Minutes” doesn’t resign to protest the censorship. Nothing would please Trump more than to kill that hard-hitting, storied program.
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one commentator suggested that the censorship had virtually assured this would be the most watched story in a long time.
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I think it is down already. I clicked the link at 11:17 PST on December 23, 2025, and couldn’t find it. All I could find was stuff about AOC.
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I had that problem at first too, but I know html code so I realized it was because the code provided is broken and inaccurate. Then I was able to figure out where it is, so check here: https://www.reddit.com/user/CrystalVibes52/
It’s not at the top of the page though, due to comments that were added, so be sure to scroll down awhile (it’s a bit more than half way down now).
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https://www.thereset.news/p/breaking-heres-the-60-minutes-segment
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Thanks, Ed!
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