LEMON DROP | CBS Cancels ‘60 Minutes’ Trump Deportation Story Just Before Broadcast

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🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Don breaks down the explosive reporting surrounding CBS chief Bari Weiss pulling a planned 60 Minutes segment, a decision that has sent shockwaves through the journalism world. Don also highlights the courage of reporter Sharyn Alfonsi, who spoke out forcefully against the move in a blistering internal critique, raising urgent questions about editorial independence, corporate pressure, and the future of one of the most trusted names in American journalism. What does this say about the direction CBS is taking? Who gets to decide what stories the public is allowed to see? A necessary conversation about media power, integrity, and the cost of speaking truth inside legacy newsrooms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	More media scandal brewing at over at CBS in 60 minutes.
0:19.9	You guys know that CBS has been in turmoil with a whole
0:21.8	takeover, Paramount, by the Paramount, the Ellison's, the new owners of CBS. They own Paramount,
0:28.5	and they just bought CBS, which includes CBS News, and there's some turmoil happening at 60 minutes
0:33.8	that you need to know about. And it involves the head, the person that the Ellison family
0:38.9	chose to run the news division, which includes, again, 60 minutes, and that's Barry Wise. So 60
0:46.7	minutes have prepared this in-depth report on CECOT, which is a notoriously harsh, dangerous prison in El Salvador that they have been taking detainees from the United States.
0:59.0	And so they had prepared a report and they had been promoing it for weeks.
1:03.0	And then all of a sudden at the very last minute, reportedly, with pressure from the Trump administration,
1:10.0	the head of the news division spiked it,
1:14.3	canceled it for now and said,
1:15.7	we're going to get back to this,
1:17.0	and they took it out.
1:17.7	And this is what was put up at the beginning
1:20.9	of the 60 Minutes broadcast.
1:23.6	It says,
1:24.7	editors know, the broadcast lineup for tonight's edition of 60 minutes has been updated.
1:29.8	Our report inside CECOT will air in a future broadcast.
1:35.5	First, I'll show you the, this is the promo, or at least one of them that had been running, and then the fallout.
1:41.7	This is the promo.
1:43.3	It began as soon as the planes landed.
1:47.3	The deportees thought they were headed from the U.S. back to Venezuela, but instead they were shackled,
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