Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' piece.
Tangle
Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2025
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
On Sunday, December 21, CBS announced that it was pulling a scheduled 60 Minutes segment on the Venezuelan men deported to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) in El Salvador in March. CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss decided to delay the segment hours before it was set to air on the long-running television show, saying that it needed additional reporting. 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who reported the segment, criticized Weiss’s decision to “spike” the story as political in a widely reported memo to her colleagues. Shortly thereafter, the streaming app for a Canadian CBS affiliate ran a version of the segment that was shared online in the U.S., sparking debate about Weiss’s justification for the move and broader editorial changes at CBS News.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:08.4 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle podcast, the place we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul. It is Monday, December 29th. We are back after Christmas break, and today we are covering the 60 Minutes controversy, the Seacott story that got |
| 0:39.4 | pulled by the new CBS News Editor-in-Chief Barry Weiss. We're going to talk about exactly what |
| 0:45.1 | happened, share some views from the left and the right, and then today you're going to get my take. |
| 0:49.6 | A quick reminder, we're off the last few days. We have a podcast today and tomorrow. And then we're taking |
| 0:57.2 | another break for the new year, New Year's Eve, New Year's Day. We'll be back next Monday with |
| 1:04.2 | regular editions after we publish tomorrow's podcast. But we are going to release some content |
| 1:09.5 | right here on the podcast for you guys. |
| 1:11.5 | That is fresh off the press. We have a few interviews that we've recorded and edited that have |
| 1:16.4 | been a little bit in the backlog for us. And we're going to unload the catalog during this |
| 1:22.1 | new year's break. So keep an ear out on the feed. We're going to have a couple really interesting |
| 1:27.1 | interviews popping up from Ari and Will, which I'm super excited. keeping the ear out on the feed. We're going to have a couple really interesting interviews |
| 1:27.5 | popping up from Ari and Will, |
| 1:30.4 | which I'm super excited to listen to because I've |
| 1:33.1 | edited and listened to some parts of them, |
| 1:35.4 | but I haven't gotten the full thing on either. |
| 1:38.3 | So I'll be a consumer just like you guys. |
| 1:41.1 | With that, I'm going to send it over to Will, |
| 1:43.1 | who is breaking down today's main |
| 1:45.5 | story, and I'll be back for my take. |
| 1:54.3 | Thanks, Isaac. All right, let's jump into today's quick hits. Number one, President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky |
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