Spiked 60 Minutes Segment Can Now Be Viewed

Spiked 60 Minutes Segment Can Now Be Viewed

The 60 Minutes segment that was cut from the show prior to airing last Sunday is now available online.

The segment told the story of Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to what the program called a “brutal” prison in El Salvador.

Sharyn Alfonsi, the veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent who reported the segment, criticized the decision not to air it. 

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“Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices,” Alfonsi wrote in the message to coworkers, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times. “It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now, after every rigorous internal check has been met, is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.”

Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, who pulled the segment, has been widely criticized for the decision.

U.S. Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) has posted it on YouTube — it can be viewed HERE.

More than 1.8 million views have been recorded.

“This is a 60 Minutes Story about how the Trump administration violated our constitution and people's basic human dignity. Acting like this does nothing to make us safer, and in fact only makes it more likely that American citizens are put at risk!” wrote Booker.