CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry.
Weiss told colleagues this weekend the piece — planned for Sunday night's show — could not run without an on-the-record comment from an administration official.
A press release sent out Friday morning from CBS News' publicity team had promoted the story, promising a look inside CECOT, "one of El Salvador's harshest prisons."
The network ran a video promotion which has since been taken down on the air and on social media.
Weiss joined CBS News in October when Ellison's Skydance Media acquired the Free Press.
The CBS job represents Weiss' first within television and the network news division is far larger than the Free Press.
Weiss has also announced plans to build on that template with more CBS newsmaker interviews, including with Vice President JD Vance and Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, a Democrat. »