'60 Minutes' Report Yanked by Bari Weiss Leaks Online After It Was Accidentally Streamed on Canadian TV App

[ificandream]

Source: Variety

By Ethan Shanfeld

A "60 Minutes" report yanked by Bari Weiss about the "horrific treatment" of detainees deported from the U.S. to a prison in El Salvador has leaked online after appearing on a Canadian TV app. Canada's Global News aired the "60 Minutes" episode without the segment on television, as did CBS, but the network's Global TV app mistakenly uploaded the wrong episode to its streaming app.

Footage of the nearly 14-minute segment circulated on social media despite being pulled from the CBS News schedule about three hours before airtime on Sunday. In the segment, reviewed by Variety, correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi interviewed a man forcibly removed from the U.S. and sent to the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo (CECOT) prison by the Trump administration, despite having no criminal record.

"There was blood everywhere, screams, people crying, people who couldn't take it and were urinating and vomiting on themselves," said Luis Munoz Pinto, a college student in Venezuela who sought asylum in the U.S. He said he spent six months detained by customs, waiting for a decision on his asylum case, before he was deported.

"Four guards grabbed me, and they beat me until I bled, until the point of agony. They knocked our faces against the wall. That was when they broke one of my teeth," Pinto added. CBS News has not yet commented on the leak.


Read more: https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/60-minutes-report-leaks-online-bari-weiss-migrant-prison-1236615715/

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UPDATE: The segment is at the link below.

https://www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-60-minutes-cecot-segment

Another link. This might be better quality.
Video (no paywall): https://t.co/olxQ4mRuZJ

[questionseverything]

1. Good for whoever "leaked " it

[calimary]

4. Thank God for whoever leaked it!

[thesquanderer]

18. Good candidate for a Nobel peace prize, if you ask me. (n/t)

Last edited Mon Dec 22, 2025, 11:28 PM - Edit history (1)

[Roc2020]

2. The more they try

to hide the more comes out. The more they try to cover up the worse it gets for wh fella. What an incompetent administration

[Lovie777]

3. shithole and comrades are.....

batshit crazy. I hope Canada understands that.

I also hope ICC sees it as well.

[BOSSHOG]

5. We have been distracted from trumps pedophilia by

Trumps torture of human beings.

We are chatting about the leader of the Republican Party. Republicans support him. And care not about his actions. Please share. Everyday.

[ificandream]

6. I just added a link for the leaked footage.

[agingdem]

7. Did Bari Weiss assume once she cut the report

from the broadcast it was gone forever…that the report would never leak…that she saved Trump’s ass?…
I know she’s determined to turn CBS, a once venerable institution, into a mouthpiece for Trump and his coterie of MAGA worshipping whores, but she’s been in the business long enough to know better.. cue The Epstein Files!!

[Beartracks]

16. It's like she thinks the media is too "liberal" so therefore CBS must mollify Republicans...

... by policing the amount of stories that, although true, would otherwise inform people about illegal Republican bullshit. It's a kind of forced "balance" that is really not useful in an un-balanced world.

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[wolfie001]

8. fat orange imbecile

RESIST THIS FASCIST PIG!!! Thank you Hero Leaker!

[Ocelot II]

9. The Streisand Effect probably will become operative now.

"The Streisand effect describes a situation where an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information results in the unintended consequence of the effort instead increasing public awareness of the information." People who don't normally watch 60 Minutes are likely to watch the segment on line just to figure out why it was pulled.

[Bread and Circuses]

10. "mistake my arse" Libert!

Liberté!

[sheshe2]

11. Good for the person or persons that "ACCIDENTALLY"

Leaked it.

There is another thread up with several different links. Spread them all far and wide.

I watched; it was not an easy thing to see. They weren't given fresh water and were forced to drink bath and toilet water, lights on 24 hours a day, beatings...everything they did were human rights violations.

[Eugene]

12. Oops!

Wrong episode? Yeah, whatever works.

[littlemissmartypants]

13. If this isn't evidence that we are now living in an authoritarian country I don't know what is.

[Cha]

14. TY, Canada, and Leakers Everywhere!

[doublethink]

15. Download it and spread it on social media.

Share it pass it on however you can. In a link, ticktock, ticktack, tickwhatever FB, Instagram, Graham Cracker again whatever and whenever. We need to all take part in debunking and passing on the truth immediately. Period. Merry Christmas.

[gfarber]

17. Bari Weiss Earns Her Pay

Perhaps you missed it—no trace on the screen,
A story unseen, unforeseen, un-serene.
Three hours till air,
Then vanished from there:
A prison exposé wiped squeaky-clean.

On the hellsite it dropped with a thud,
“Sixty Minutes” now stuck in the mud.
CECOT went dark,
No footage, no spark—
Just silence where sunlight once budged.

Said Stelter, with eyebrow askew,
“Independence here? People may chew—
They’re threatening quits,
Over corporate fits;
Sacrosanct news, but for who?”

A memo then flew from Alfonsi, incensed,
Each sentence precisely defense-fenced.
“Five screenings, all clear,
Lawyers nodded, no fear—
This isn’t editorial, it’s censored.”

“We begged DHS, State, and the White,
For a comment, a quote, any light.
Their silence, you see,
Isn’t neutral—it’s key:
A veto disguised as polite.”

“If refusal now kills every tale,
Then the watchdog’s reduced to a snail.
Why investigate state,
If they dictate our slate?
That’s stenography, not a free trail.”

“These men risked their lives just to speak,
From a prison both brutal and bleak.
To ghost them today
For politics’ sway
Is betrayal at journalism’s peak.”

Remember old Wigand, pulled tight?
How that low point took years to make right?
Now history’s rhyme
Returns—different crime:
Not legal, but optics this night.

CBS said, “Don’t fret, it’ll air—
After more reporting, with care.”
But the newsroom replied,
With a collectively sighed:
“Who’s we—and is anyone there?”

Enter Weiss with a pause and a pen,
“Just add Stephen Miller,” she said then.
“And ‘migrant’ won’t do,
They’re illegal, that’s true—
Context matters… again and again.”

She told the Times calmly, composed,
“Stories hold till they’re ready—exposed.”
Which critics translate,
Without much debate,
As “Ready means never opposed.”

So a precedent’s quietly set,
One authoritarians get:
Don’t answer the press,
And the story says less—
A kill switch the state won’t forget.

From lawsuits to moguls who buy,
The press finds its oxygen dry.
When silence is power
And courage costs hours,
Even “Gold Standards” tarnish and die.

[popsdenver]

19. I have wondered

where did "ANONYMOUS" hackers go to????? and will we ever see them again??????????

[KitFox]

20. Hooray to the leakers! Just like trying to ban books, the more you try to hide something, the more popular and

irresistible it becomes. However and whenever we can, we will insist, resist and persist!

[BlueSpot]

21. Now, when I think Donald Trump needs to go prison I have an actual prison in mind

[Hassler]

22. Maybe someone can leak the Trump Epstein Files

To someone in Canada so we can finally know the extent of Chump's sex crimes.

[Jarqui]

23. Sickening. Brutal what happened to these people. ...nt

[RedArkGuy]

24. The only thing to our advantage we can count on about Trumpies . . .

. . . is their total incompetence. Now more people will see the report than would ever have done had Weiss kept her hands off..

[sinkingfeeling]

25. Bet the TSF Regime will attempt to shut down Berkley's Human Rights team.

[Callalily]

26. Just when we think that Trump and his administration

couldn't get any lower, they do! I am so ashamed of our country.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

27. Postponed '60 Minutes' segment on Salvadoran prison is streamed by Canadian outlet

CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss' decision to pull the segment from Sunday's episode sparked criticism, including from the correspondent behind the reporting.

Postponed '60 Minutes' segment on Salvadoran prison is streamed by Canadian outlet www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

— Mihaita (@52gaga.bsky.social) 2025-12-23T14:31:38.003Z

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cbs-news-el-salvador-cecot-prison-sharyn-alfonsi-bari-weiss-rcna250618

While the furor over CBS News’ decision to delay a “60 Minutes” report about deportees sent by the Trump administration to a notorious Salvadoran prison persisted Monday, the finished segment was already circulating online after streaming in Canada.

The report, titled “Inside CECOT,” appeared on a streaming app owned by Canada’s Global Television Network. In the U.S., its broadcast was postponed by CBS under its new editor-in-chief, Bari Weiss......

“Inside CECOT” was reported by correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who was critical of the decision to delay the segment’s broadcast. In a note to colleagues seen by NBC News, she accused the network of pulling the segment for “political” reasons.

In the note, she said it was pulled because the Trump administration refused requests for comment — a standard that she said, if adopted, would amount a government “kill switch” to stop publication of a story.

“Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices,” Alfonsi wrote in the note.

“It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now, after every rigorous internal check has been met, is not an editorial decision, it is a political one,” she said.