’60 Minutes’ segment on El Salvador prison mistakenly airs in Canada after network delays release

A “60 Minutes” segment that was delayed by CBS News’ Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss on Sunday, appeared to mistakenly air in Canada on Monday through a streaming platform owned by Global TV, which has the rights to “60 Minutes” in Canada.The segment, which was reported by correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, centered on interviews with migrants that the Trump administration deported to El Salvador’s maximum-security prison, CECOT. But Weiss determined that the story needed “additional reporting,” before it was ready to air.
The interviews included allegations that the men were tortured for months at the prison, and suffered sexual and physical abuse. The El Salvador government has not commented on the story, Alfonsi said in the segment, according to CNN. 
The Canadian streaming of the show appeared to be a mistake — CNN called it “inadvertent” — because networks like CBS sometimes deliver taped programming to affiliates like Global TV early. Weiss saw the segment last Thursday, it was approved Friday, and then Weiss allegedly changed her mind on the story on Saturday because it felt imbalanced. The show that aired Monday was the version approved on Friday.
Weiss reportedly claimed that she wanted actual comments from the Trump administration on camera, rather than using Alfonsi’s comment in the segment that the Department of Homeland Security “declined our request for an interview and referred all questions about CECOT to El Salvador.”
Other CBS and “60 Minutes” employees have claimed that the story had been thoroughly vetted by the network, and Alfonsi accused Weiss of delaying the story for “political” reasons instead of legal ones.
The network and program have not commented on the accidental airing so far. 
Misty Severi is a news reporter for Just The News. You can follow her on X for more coverage.

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