Trump Shuts Down CBS over Story he Feared

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🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump conspiring with CBS Editor-In-Chief Bari Weiss to shutdown and cancel a 60 minutes episode that was critical of Trump’s handling of migrants sent to El Salvador. Dose: Save 35% on your first month of subscription by going to https://dosedaily.co/MEIDAS or entering MEIDAS at checkout. Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com/tag/coalition-of-the-sane Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	I think this will be one of the most important videos I've ever done at the Midas Touch Network
0:04.7	because it speaks to how corporate news has utterly capitulated to this gangster Trump regime
0:10.8	and why we need independent media independent news and why I am so humbled for your support
0:17.7	with Midas Touch Network leading the way for all independent news. And in fact,
0:24.0	our independent news is beating Fox and all other corporate news right now. And so I want to talk about
0:31.1	CBS capitulating to the gangster regime. That doesn't just tarnish its reputation. It has destroyed CBS. CBS is done.
0:42.4	CBS is dead. CBS is gone. It has utterly been taken over by the gangster Trump regime.
0:49.7	And we saw what they did yesterday, which is what I want to highlight right now.
1:02.1	So just hours before 60 Minutes was set to air a story on deportees who were sent by the Trump administration to the, I call it a concentration camp, they call it a terrorist
1:07.9	detention center in El Salvador, describing the brutal and torturous conditions.
1:15.8	60 Minutes announces that it pulled the segment and it will air it in the future, maybe.
1:22.1	So after promoting this segment, CBS posts this editor's note December 21st 2025 the broadcast lineup for
1:31.7	tonight's edition of 60 minutes has been updated our report inside seecott that's the terrorist
1:39.3	detention center I call it a concentration camp you can call it what you want to. We'll air in a future
1:45.3	broadcast. Now, they previously had been showing this promo. You can see the promo right here.
1:51.7	Then they took the promo down. And here's what the promo said. A group of Venezuelan men
1:58.0	thought they were being deported from the U.S. back to Venezuela.
2:02.4	Instead, they were delivered to Seacot, the notorious maximum security prison in El Salvador,
2:08.6	where they were shackled and paraded before cameras. This Sunday, two of those men tell
2:14.7	60 minutes their story. Now, the atrocities that were committed at
2:19.5	Seacot, that are being committed at Seacot, but that the United States government has aided
2:25.1	and embedded, these are crimes against humanity. Physical torture, sexual abuse, sexual torture,
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