UPDATE: Tonight’s show is just two instead of three segments. One of them was made longer at the last minute.
No political pieces on tonight’s show.
Tonight, “60 Minutes” was supposed to air a controversial subject covered thoroughly in print this week.
exclusive picture from pulled segment at top
deleted Teaser below
The story was about Trump and something called CECOT — aka Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, the El Salvadoran prison where he was sending Venezuelans.
But now the newly conservative network has pulled the plug, announcing there will be no segment even though it was promoted. CBS says it will air sometime in the future. But it’s very rare for a “60 Minutes” piece to get axed right before showtime. This reeks of new CBS News editor in chief, conservative website owner Bari Weiss, who’s been given control of the department.
Weiss has been widely criticized for her Town Hall with Erika Kirk, widow of Charlie Kirk, who for an hour this past week promoted her husband’s book on air.
This is all bad news as Weiss has cleared out the “Evening News” to install a puppet in Tony Doukopil. She’s getting ready to oust the anchors from “CBS Mornings.” Her vision of CBS News is a Fox News lite after not being able to hire that network’s Bret Baier.
This is the now deleted teaser for the 60 Minutes report that was supposed to air tonight on the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador that Donald Trump sent hundreds of migrants to. CBS is officially a mouthpiece for the Trump administration thanks to Bari Weiss https://t.co/uRoFh2YdFo pic.twitter.com/aE1cbOXxAl
— Marco Foster (@MarcoFoster_) December 21, 2025