Just before the Christmas holiday began in earnest, CBS News head Bari Weiss doubled down on her decision to pull the controversial 60 Minutes segment that cast the Donald Trump administration in a critical light.
On Monday, December 22, a 60 Minutes report that Weiss pulled about the “horrific treatment” of detainees deported from the U.S. to a prison in El Salvador was leaked online.
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