In an email to fellow correspondents obtained by the Wall Street Journal, Sharyn Alfonsi, who has worked on 60 Minutes for a decade, wrote that new CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss "spiked our story" in a decision she deemed political, and not an editorial call.

The report, removed hours before broadcast, examined Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to an El Salvador megaprison

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