Weiss pulled 60 Minutes story on Trump deportations because it didn’t ‘advance the ball’

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CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss said she controversially pulled a 60 Minutes story on the CECOT prison in El Salvador because it “did not advance the ball.”

Staff at 60 Minutes had protested the story’s nixing, slamming Weiss for what they viewed as a “political” decision not to air the story.

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