Skip to Main Content'Terrible Embarrassment': Lawmakers Blast CBS For Pulling '60 Minutes' Prison StoryMembers of Congress condemned CBS News for pulling a “60 Minutes” story about the migrants the Trump administration sent to a notorious El Salvador prison.CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss reportedly defended her decision as the segment “wasn’t ready,” despite acknowledging Venezuelans held at the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, are “subjected to horrific treatment.”“What is happening to CBS is a terrible embarrassment and if executives think they can build shareholder value by avoiding journalism that might offend the Mad King they are about to learn a tough lesson,” Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) said on X. “This is still America and we don’t enjoy bullshit like this.”Rep. Seth Magaziner (D-R.I.) said that if the Trump administration “can send these men to a torture prison [with] no due process they can do it to anyone,” adding that's “the truth they don’t want told.”See All UpdatesClose