"Now to a story about CBS News, Duncan said, as she launched into her report. A few hours before last night's edition of 60 Minutes, viewers learned that a segment that had been promoted would not air. It's about a notorious prison in El Salvador, and the Trump administration's decision to send Venezuelans and others there who it says entered the U.S. illegally."
"Alfonsi says that despite requests for interviews, no one in the Trump administration would participate in the story. In an email, she wrote that, If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a kill switch.' Duncan who is keeping the seat warm until Tony Dokoupil takes over as anchor of the CBS Evening News on Jan. 5 then presented the response from Weiss and the network."
Jericka Duncan delivered a 90-second CBS Evening News report about a 60 Minutes segment that was pulled hours before airtime. The segment concerned a notorious prison in El Salvador and the Trump administration's deportation of Venezuelans and others it says entered the U.S. illegally. 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi sent an internal email asserting that the story is factually correct and accusing Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss of removing it for political reasons. Alfonsi wrote that if administration refusal to participate becomes a reason to kill stories, the administration would have a de facto kill switch. Weiss and the network responded that holding stories for context or missing voices happens routinely.
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