The ‘60 Minutes’ Segment CBS Didn’t Want You to See and Why I’m Releasing the Full 13 Minutes
On Sunday night, 60 Minutes made a decision that mattered far more than anything that aired.
A completed, fully produced investigative segment examining Trump-era deportations to El Salvador’s mega prison was pulled just hours before broadcast. No disclaimer. No explanation to viewers. No transparency about what changed or who made the call.
Now, a portion of that segment is circulating anyway.
And I’ve obtained it.
This post explains what the segment shows, why its removal is itself a red flag, and why I’m publishing the full 13-minute video in full.
What Was Supposed to Air
The pulled report examined Venezuelan migrants deported from U.S. custody and transferred into El Salvador’s prison system, specifically CECOT, the country’s maximum-security mega prison built for alleged gang members.
According to the deportees interviewed, they were told they were being returned home. Instead, they were flown to a third country and imprisoned under one of the most restrictive detention regimes in the hemisphere.
The segment includes:
On-camera testimony from deportees
Footage from inside and around the facility
Documentation of how the transfers occurred
Direct challenges to the official narrative surrounding these removals
This was not speculation. It was reporting.
And it was finished.
The Fracture CBS Has Not Explained
The official silence is the fracture.
CBS has not claimed the segment was inaccurate. It has not issued a correction. It has not been said that the reporting failed standards. It simply disappeared the piece after promotion, after editing, after scheduling.
That timing is not normal.
Editorial changes usually happen upstream. Pulling a segment hours before air is a defensive move, one that suggests risk was reassessed late, not facts discovered late.
Risk to whom?
This is the same fracture we documented earlier when CBS first pulled the segment, including internal timing questions and network silence that never received a public explanation.
Why ‘60 Minutes’ Pulled a Completed Report on Trump’s El Salvador Deportations Just Hours Before Air
On Sunday evening, viewers tuning in to 60 Minutes expected a report examining one of the most opaque and consequential episodes of the Trump administration’s immigration policy: the transfer of Venezuelan deportees from U.S. custody to El Salvador, where they were held inside the country’s sprawling, high-security megaprison known as CECOT.
That piece established what happened.
This one shows what they didn’t want aired.
What the Video Shows and Why It Matters
The portion of the video I obtained shows something networks rarely want audiences to sit with for long: continuity.
Not a single shocking moment, but a clear sequence:
People detained
Moved across borders
Handed off to a foreign prison system
With limited public records explaining how or why
The power of the segment is not rhetoric. It’s an accumulation.
And that accumulation raises unavoidable questions:
Under what authority were these deportations routed through a third country?
What agreements governed custody and confinement?
What legal process, if any, followed the individuals once transferred?
Why does so little documentation exist in the public record?
Journalism is supposed to narrow those gaps. Instead, the reporting was removed.
The Media Gatekeeping Problem
When CBS News kills a completed investigation, the public loses more than a story.
It loses evidence.
That matters because records related to these deportations remain limited, redacted, or unpublished. Oversight has been slow. Congressional clarity has been scarce. Courts have not fully tested the legality of these transfers.
In that vacuum, the press becomes the primary accountability mechanism.
Turning that mechanism off is not neutral.
Why I’m Publishing the Full 13 Minutes
The portion circulating online confirms what many suspected: the segment was pulled not because it was weak, but because it was strong.
Strong enough to create exposure.
Strong enough to raise liability questions.
Strong enough to force answers.
That is precisely why it should be public.
I am releasing the full 13-minute segment so readers can evaluate it directly, without filters, without network mediation, without strategic silence.
Watch it.
Scrutinize it.
Save it.
This is not commentary. It’s preservation.
What This Unlocks
Once the footage is public, several things change:
Claims about “editorial discretion” become testable
Official explanations can be measured against the reporting itself
Lawmakers and advocates gain concrete material to reference
The question shifts from did this happen to who approved it
That is the difference between news consumption and accountability.
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The full 13-minute video will be released alongside a document-anchored breakdown of:
What the segment shows
What CBS chose not to air
What remains missing from the official record
And what becomes legally and politically possible next
This is not a clip.
It’s evidence.
And once it’s public, it cannot be quietly pulled again.
CBS is toast. And Amazon paid $40 million for a Melania doc directed by a known rapist who hung out with Epstein and his rapist buddies. Like her husband.
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