The 60 Minutes correspondent who worked on the segment alleged in an internal email that pulling it from airing was “not an editorial decision, it is a political one."

A '60 Minutes' segment featuring interviews with deported Venezuelans has appeared online despite being pulled by executives.

At the last minute, CBS News held a segment about Venezuelan men who were deported by the Trump administration to a prison in El Salvador. It surfaced online anyway.

CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss' decision to pull the segment from Sunday's episode sparked criticism, including from the correspondent behind the reporting.

The Trump White House offered CBS News’ 60 Minutes an off-topic statement for its segment on the Salvadoran megaprison CECOT. Sharyn Alfonsi, the correspondent who reported the segment, and her producer requested an interview with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem in late November.

CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss decided to shelve a planned “60 Minutes” story titled “Inside CECOT,” creating an uproar inside CBS, but the report has reached a worldwide audience anyway.

Controversial CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss pulled the segment and reportedly requested a new cut include a fresh interview with Miller