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Losing trust in '60 Minutes'

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December 30, 2025

THE justification used by CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss for pulling a "60 Minutes" segment on the, as CBS News called it, "brutal and torturous" prison conditions at CECOT in El Salvador, isn't going to pass most people's smell test.

- ANTHONY ARNAUD Laguna Niguel

Losing trust in '60 Minutes'

A SCENE from the unaired "60 Minutes" segment "Inside CECOT."

Americans have every right to see the ramifications of carrying out seemingly indiscriminate deportations, often without due process.

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