CBS, Bari Weiss facing mounting backlash from liberal critics over yanking '60 Minutes' segment

CBS News facing backlash over yanking '60 Minutes' segment on CECOT prison CBS News and Bari Weiss are facing backlash from liberal critics after they yanked a "60 Minutes" segment about CECOT on Sunday after promoting it. CBS News and Bari Weiss are facing backlash after pulling a "60 Minutes" segment on Sunday about allegations of abuses at the notorious El Salvador prison CECOT , as two MS NOW hosts said it looked bad and another commentator compared the situation to "government-controlled TV." "This looks so bad," MS NOW "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough said of the news on Monday, as co-host Mika Brzezinski agreed. The segment "Inside CECOT" was going to feature correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi interviewing "some of the now released deportees, who describe the brutal and torturous conditions," and was promoted by CBS heading into the weekend. The Trump administration has come under criticism for sending Venezuelan migrants and others to the prison, as the administration touts its work to control the border and remove illegal immigrants. "It was ready to go to the point it was promo-ed. They were putting it on air. They teased it on air. And now this is the fear is that of the new regime at CBS News, this has come true," host Jonathan Lemire added during the MS NOW show. Bari Weiss speaks onstage during Book Club Event on Nov. 19, 2024, in New York City. CBS News signage ahead of the first vice presidential debate across the street from the CBS Broadcast Center in New York, Sept. 30, 2024. Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski at the US Open Women's Semifinals Blue Carpet on Sept. 4, 2025, in New York. (Noam Galai/Getty Images for The Free Press; Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Adela Loconte/Variety via Getty Images) "Billionaires are compromising the most important journalistic institutions we have left in this country. The game is obvious, and in this case, Bari Weiss, who was, by the way, not a reporter, not a journalist, is cosplaying as one and is poisoning the well of one of the last bastions of investigative reporting that gets funded," Pablo Torre, a guest on the show on Monday, added. Brzezinski said she's been through screenings for "60 Minutes" segments, as she worked there previously, and said editors tear apart every frame. The "Morning Joe" host appeared shocked that they promoted the segment and ended up yanking it. "Morning Joe" also spoke to Walter Isaacson, a former CEO at CNN, who said "the real question" with regard to the yanked segment was whether "the administration is putting its thumb on its scale for political reasons." A CBS News logo outside a building. (Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images) BARI WEISS’ CRITICS INSIDE CBS NEWS FALL INTO TWO DISTINCT CAMPS, NETWORK INSIDER SAYS "And, you know, we have a pretty strong tradition for 250 years in this country not to allow administrations or the government to tell people what to run. I don’t know at all what’s happened at CBS. I’m...

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