The report, originally scheduled to air on December 21, finally aired on Sunday night (January 18). As previously reported, the segment, based on a report from Sharyn Alfonsi, focused on men deported to the infamous facility under the Trump administration. Weiss yanked it at the time due to a lack of an on-camera response from the White House.

CBS News leadership has always been committed to airing the 60 MINUTES CECOT piece as soon as it was ready,” a spokesperson said.

CBS’s Bari Weiss didn’t get Trump officials on camera for 60 Minutes, as desired, but US viewers got to witness the plight of Venezuelan men sent to a hellish El Salvador mega-prison

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss has reportedly defended her last-minute decision to hold a “60 Minutes” episode about a notorious prison in El Salvador by claiming that it wasn ...