CBS News abruptly pulled a heavily-promoted “60 Minutes” segment about Venezuelan immigrants that the Trump administration sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador just hours before it was scheduled to air.
“The broadcast lineup for tonight’s edition of 60 Minutes has been updated. Our report “Inside CECOT” will air in a future broadcast,” an editor’s note said.
In its place, “60 Minutes” aired a feature on the sherpas who work on Mount Everest.
A CBS News spokesperson told HuffPost that the reason for the CECOT segment’s unexpected postponement was that “it needed additional reporting.” CBS News has not shared what the future release date will be.
A page on the CBS News site that once featured a trailer of the episode now says that the page “may have been removed, had its name changed, or is just temporarily unavailable.” However, a release for the episode still appeared on the Paramount website at the time of writing. (Paramount is the parent company of CBS. It recently launched a hostile bid to take over Warner Bros.)
