White House Offered '60 Minutes' Dubious Statement Over Axed Segment
Source: Daily Beast
Updated Dec. 25 2025 3:35AM EST
Published Dec. 24 2025 2:15PM EST
The Trump White House offered CBS News’ 60 Minutes an off-topic statement for its segment on the Salvadoran megaprison CECOT. Sharyn Alfonsi, the correspondent who reported the segment, and her producer requested an interview with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in late November. She did not hear back, according to The New York Times.
Journalists at 60 Minutes also attempted to get statements from the White House, DHS, and the State Department for the segment.
As the team at 60 Minutes finalized the segment last week, the White House provided CBS with a statement on Thursday, which did not reference CECOT—the focus of the 60 Minutes segment.
“60 Minutes should spend their time and energy amplifying the stories of Angel Parents, whose innocent American children have tragically been murdered by vicious illegal aliens that President Trump are [sic] removing from the country,” White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said in the statement.
That statement did not make the air, but CBS News did include a video clip of White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defending the administration’s immigration policy at a March press briefing, in which she claimed those being deported were “heinous monsters, rapists, murderers, kidnappers, sexual assaulters, predators, who have no right to be in this country and they must be held accountable.”
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