318. What's Wrong With the 60 Minutes 'Inside CECOT' Report
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Sharyl Attkisson
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🗓️ 31 December 2025
⏱️ 33 minutes
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My analysis of the controversial 60 Minutes 'Inside CECOT' report that Bari Weiss pulled before air.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everybody, it's Cheryl Ackison. Welcome to another edition of the Cheryl |
| 0:07.3 | Ackison podcast. Today, my analysis, what's wrong with the shelved 60-minute story inside |
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| 0:44.9 | Shopify.com.com.com. As some of you probably did, I viewed the version of the 60 Minutes |
| 0:52.1 | report inside Seacot that was distributed to Canada's |
| 0:56.0 | global TV app and temporarily circulated online before it was pulled due to copyright claims. |
| 1:03.2 | Based on my viewing of that version of the story, I do have a critique and an analysis. |
| 1:09.1 | Barry Weiss was correct. The story wasn't ready for air. |
| 1:13.3 | I'll be going through point by point as to the reasons why I think that. But first, I'm |
| 1:18.9 | going to give you some background, having worked at CBS for over 20 years, primarily doing investigative |
| 1:24.8 | reporting. And the background involves the story approval process when it comes |
| 1:30.1 | to controversial stories or stories that are likely to perhaps get us sued or have someone threatened to sue us. |
| 1:37.1 | I did a lot of those. And pretty early on in my career at CBS, I began calling the CBS lawyers and asking them to review my stories |
| 1:47.0 | prior to air. You might think, as I once did, that this was part of a mandatory process |
| 1:54.0 | that when reporters are taking on major corporations or huge topics or doing stories of controversy, that the stories would be reviewed |
| 2:03.0 | by legal counsel. But at the time, and for all the years I was at CBS, this was not a routine |
| 2:09.9 | nor mandatory requirement. In fact, sometimes I got the impression that some of the editorial |
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