CBS News abruptly pulled a heavily-promoted “60 Minutes” segment about Venezuelan immigrants that the Trump administration sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador just hours before it was scheduled to air.

CBS News pulled a "60 Minutes" report on El Salvador's CECOT prison just hours before its scheduled Sunday broadcast, saying it would air at a future time. "The broadcast lineup for tonight's edition of 60 Minutes has been updated,

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.

NEW YORK, Dec 22 (Reuters) - A "60 Minutes" report on a Salvadoran mega-prison housing U.S.-deported migrants spread online on Monday, a day after CBS News pulled the segment before its scheduled Sunday broadcast, saying it needed more reporting.

CBS yanked a “60 Minutes” segment on Venezuelan migrants in El Salvador’s notorious maximum-security prison, CECOT, just hours before it was scheduled to air — with the journalist behind it sparking a political feud by accusing new boss Bari Weiss of spiking it for political reasons.