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White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller calls for CBS’s removal Any employee involved in “rebellion” On the network’s decision to pull 60 minutes Segment on the treatment of migrants in El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison.
Miller was reacting to the move Controversial CBS News editor-in-chief Bari WeissWho Independent It has been reported that employees may face a “revolt” 60 minutes On its last-minute decision to pull a story about the Trump administration’s mass deportations.
An upcoming segment of the investigative news program was scheduled to air on Sunday, titled “Inside CECOT”. About the infamous El Salvador prison, Where journalist Sharyn Alfonsi interviewed prisoners about their mistreatment Had to endure hardships within its walls.
“Every single one of those producers 60 minutes Those engaged in this insurrection – clean out the houses and burn them down, that’s what I say,” Miller fumed Tuesday evening. Fox News.
he complained about 60 minutes The producers, living in the comfort and safety of their West End condos, are trying to make us feel sympathy for these monsters” in his speech to host Charlie Hurt.
Weiss said he removed the segment because “we do not present the Administration’s rationale for sending Venezuelans to CECOT”, and he requested “several changes”, including a suggestion that it feature a new interview with Miller. the new York Times.
When Hurt asked if he “had been contacted about this package” Miller said he had “no recollection of anything”.
“I don’t recall anyone contacting me. As you know, people put things in com inboxes and general feedback comments,” Miller said, before moving on. “But more fundamentally, it’s a more pathetic thing 60 minutes Disgusting act.”
in an email to 60 minutes The staffer, journalist Alfonsi, said he and his team “requested responses to questions and/or interviews from DHS, the White House, and the State Department” but received no responses.
Alfonsi said, “Government silence is a statement, not a veto. The refusal to interview him is a tactical move designed to debunk the story.”
He added, “If the administration’s refusal to participate becomes a legitimate reason for bumping a story, then we have effectively handed them a ‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find inconvenient.”
sources told Independent Weiss arranged a “crisis meeting of big managers” at the New York office of CBS News to address the fallout from blowing the CECOT story. According to sources familiar with the meeting, Weiss spent most of the time reassuring attendees that the segment was not dead and would eventually air. 60 minutes,
The segment was leaked online after a recording aired on Canada’s Global Television Network this week. The story appears to have been removed, but it is still on a website that captures and preserves webpages after they are deleted.
Many deportees have reported torture, beatings and ill-treatment in leaked videos. A Venezuelan exile shown in a leaked video is said to have been sentenced to sexual abuse and solitary confinement.
Another deportee said guards beat him and broke his bones as soon as they arrived.
“When you get there, you already know you’re in hell. You don’t have to tell anyone,” he said.
The story features a number of experts who have questioned the legal basis for deporting migrants so hastily amid pending judicial decisions.
The Associated Press contributed reporting