After about a month, CBS finally aired the 60 Minutes item on Salvadoran megaprison CECOT that was held for “additional reporting” at the direction of CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss. The report finally aired today, and after watching the end result we can conclude that Weiss was right to hold it. The report was pulled from air at the last second, but aired in Canada and was subsequently leaked online. Our own Curtis Houck reviewed that report and found thusly: The now-infamous 60 Minutes segment pulled by editor-in-chief Bari Weiss seemed to have self-deported and aired up in Canada on Global TV, one of its broadcast networks. With it now available to the masses (thanks to social media), we can now give it a full viewing and not a she-said, she-said between Weiss and correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi. Spoiler alert: the piece was biased as hell, lacking the balance and nuance Weiss asked for. Between the two sympathetic interview subjects, the use of a far-left so-called human rights group, lying about the administration’s lack of responses to comment requests, and chatting it up with Berkeley students, Alfonsi’s piece had it all. The reason the report was initially pulled was due to its failure to provide balance via an administration response- even if it was a tear sheet of a press release. As Axios noted, reports of no statement provided were false. According to a source familiar with the "60 Minutes" team's correspondence with the administration, journalists reached out to press officials at The White House, State Department and DHS, all of which provided comment to CBS News ahead of the piece's anticipated run date. None of those comments, which varied in length and substance, were included in the piece, which has been made public from a recording that was distributed via an app owned by Global TV, which airs "60 Minutes" in Canada. The outcry over the pulling of the report triggered a reworking of standards and practices at CBS News. When we reported on this, we also observed that Alfonsi’s own reputation for partisan hackery was to blame. We wrote: CBS News, and 60 Minutes in particular, was broken long before Weiss took over. Alfonsi is the poster child of that brokenness, what with such previous lowlights as the attempted smear of Gov. Ron DeSantis using selectively edited footage, and her cheering of German censorship.  A “broader overhaul of standards and procedures” is certainly welcome at CBS, but it should have come well before the CECOT fiasco.  We further noted that what made the issue really blow up was Alfonsi’s whiny all-hands e-mail crying over the fact she’d been asked to fix her shoddy piece. Which brings us to today’s airing of the CECOT report. Without further ado, here is the “additional reporting.” Sharyn Alfonsi redid the segment’s opening, bringing it up to date with a reference to the raid that captured dictator Nicolás Maduro, and mentioned the administration’s refusal to sit down with Alfonsi. Redone opening to the "60 Minutes" CECOT item, with a tie-in to the Maduro raid, and a mention of the Trump administration's refusal to provide comment. pic.twitter.com/Ss9GvZ7cPd — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) January 19, 2026 SHARYN ALFONSI: Nicolas Maduro, the former president of Venezuela, now sits in a federal prison awaiting trial. The White House touted his capture as a blow to narco terrorists who it says flooded U.S. streets with drugs. The repression of the Maduro regime, over more than a decade, forced 8 million Venezuelans to flee, nearly a million of them to the United States. Last year, in the biggest U.S. immigration crackdown in recent history, hundreds of those Venezuelans were deported to El Salvador, a country most had no connection to.  The White House claims they were a part of a violent gang and designated them as terrorists. The administration invoked a centuries-old wartime power, the Alien Enemies Act, to rapidly deport some of the men. Between March and April of last year, the U.S. sent 252 Venezuelan men to a brutal maximum security prison in El Salvador known as CECOT. You will hear from two of those men. They describe torture, sexual, and physical abuse inside the prison. Since November, 60 Minutes has made several attempts to interview key Trump administration officials on camera about our story. They declined our request. Tonight, our report from inside CECOT. The “additional reporting” here consists of a single sentence at the end of this introduction, which should have been included in the original report. The original item as originally prepared and aired in Canada ran in its entirety. The report was followed with an all-new addendum: Here is the new closing to the CECOT report, which includes the "additional reporting" Bari Weiss rightfully requested. SHARYN ALFONSI: "60 Minutes" has repeatedly asked the Department of Homeland Security for the complete records and criminal backgrounds of all 252 Venezuelan… pic.twitter.com/ZrKfpcxyiE — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) January 19, 2026 SHARYN ALFONSI: "60 Minutes" has repeatedly asked the Department of Homeland Security for the complete records and criminal backgrounds of all 252 Venezuelan men the U.S. sent to CECOT. It would not provide them. This past week, DHS told us: "We are confident in our law enforcement's intelligence, and we aren't going to share intelligence reports and undermine national security every time a gang member denies he is one. That would be insane." Because of this, we relied on the ICE data that is available for our reporting. Of the 252 men, that data shows that 33 had been convicted of a crime in the U.S. Again, eight of them for violent or potentially violent crimes. Another 70 had pending charges. But we don't know the nature of those charges, because DHS refuses to share that information. Neither of the two detainees in our story has been convicted of any crimes in the U.S. Nine days ago, DHS sent "60 Minutes" a photo of William Lozada Sanchez' left arm, with a swastika tattoo. When we interviewed Lozada in November, this is what his arm looked like. He told us he got the offensive tattoo at 15 and didn't know what it meant.  He claims he regretted it and had it changed just before the U.S. sent him to CECOT. Five gang experts told us that swastikas and 666, another tattoo on Lozada's arm, have no connection to the violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua. In a statement to "60 Minutes", The White House said President Trump is committed to keeping his promises to the American people by removing dangerous criminal and terrorist illegal aliens. The administration's statements are available in full online. DHS deflected all questions about abuse allocations at CECOT, saying the men are not under U.S. jurisdiction while in El Salvador. But last month, a federal judge ruled that the U.S. had maintained what was called "constructive custody" over the Venezuelans who were sent to CECOT under the Alien Enemies Act. He ordered the Trump Administration to give those men the due process they were denied. In a declaration to the court, Secretary of State Marco Rubio explained in part that bringing the deported Venezuelans to the U.S. for hearings or holding remote ones at this time would risk, quote, "material damage to U.S. foreign policy interests in Venezuela." Again, we get things that should’ve been included within the original report. This includes further context on how the DHS determined the detainees were a threat, a summary of the requests made to the administration (and subsequent denials) and, finally, the statements made by the administration for purposes of the report, which are listed here.  Of those, the only one made after December 19th was the DHS saying they stood by their December 19th statement. In other words, CBS had everything they were going to get in terms of statements and chose to air them because they refused to provide Alfonsi with a spectacle. This isn’t to say that the report between the addenda still isn’t partisan slop because it totally is. But the slop now has enough context wherein viewers can assess for themselves. Given what we now know and having seen the report with context and addenda, we can conclude that Weiss was right to pull the report and send it back for further context. The media morality clerics will undoubtedly howl, but they were always going to howl. The fact is that the First Amendment didn’t self-incinerate and the Republic did not fall.