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Line free via monthly bill credits. Credit stop if you cancel any lines qualifying credit required. Maybe you heard about this. CBS News is now in pure retreat. Their 60 Minutes had a all ready to go. They had a segment like a 12 minute segment maybe 13 minutes long segment about Trump sending people arrested by ICE here in the United States to the seekot prison in El Salvador. And it reflected poorly on the Trump administration. Not that the 90 decision from the Conservative court already didn't make him look bad over this. But they pulled it. So they pulled the, And I can't even show you because I can't even show. So this is the, the trailer they put out. This is the teaser they put out, the little promo. I can't play it. And I'm going to show you why I can't play it. Here, let me show you why I can't play it. Hang on. Yeah, I can't play it because. Breaking60 CBS is now filing copyright takedowns to scrub copies of the band 60 Minute Seacot segment. They didn't just pull the story, they're trying to erase it. That tells you everything. And so what I'm going to do, what this is called when they do this is called the Streisand effect. Now this segment probably would have aired, maybe people talked about, but we've already talked about this. Everybody's already covered this. And this Supreme Court, the highly conservative Supreme Court already voted nine to nothing against Donald Trump in this case. So it's, it's not like this is going to be new news or that it's. But anyway, the Streisand effect describes a situation where an attempt to hide, remove or censor information results in the unintended consequence of the effort instead increasing public awareness. So now everybody's talking about this as opposed to probably, I probably wouldn't have covered it. I don't think anybody else would have covered it because we've all covered this story ad nauseum and we wouldn't have covered it. But now because Barry Weiss, the Zionist gift to the news at cbs. Remember she was installed by the Ellison family who bought CBS and TikTok at the same way so they could control the narrative around Israel and Zionism. And so what they actually are doing now is creating more interest in this story. And since I can't play it on YouTube, what I'm going to do is play the entire segment for you in a premium segment that we're going to do directly after today's show. So I'm going to play it for you. So if you want to see it, stick around and if you want to see it, become a premium member. And you can see my commentary on it as we watch it together. So that's what's going to happen. But I'm going to get, I'm going to get you back to the story. Let's get back to the story. So Barry Weiss is a lap dog for the capitalist state. Her censorship of a story on 60 Minutes that exposes The Trump administration for sending Venezuelans to see COT in El Salvador to be tortured should immediately result in her firing. Here's a clip of the segment she blocked. Well, she's not going to get fired because this is exactly what she was put there to do. So now. Well, anyway, so we can't. So when he says Barry Weiss is a lap dog for the capitalist state, I think just everyone knows her as toady, if you know what I'm talking about. I call her Tony Foster. Come on. So your liberal hero in charge of CBS is not only burying a critical story about human rights, she's helping Donald Trump on purpose. I bet you didn't have that on your bingo card, did you? So I can't play it for you, but let's. Let me, let me. So Max Blumenthal says CBS is. 60 Minutes has always been a conduit for the CIA and the state Department propaganda, with occasional disruptions by the likes of people like Mike Wallace. But the sloppiness and zealotry of Bari Weiss has finally lifted the mask. Hey, Max, I'm sorry to tell you, that's not a mask. That's her actual face. This is what government censorship looks like. Trump approved the Paramount Skydance merger. So that's Larry Ellison buying Paramount. Remember, that's one sixth of the American media, including CBS News. A few months later, CBS new editor in chief kills a deeply reported story that's critical of Trump. A Sad day for 60 Minutes and for journalism. Well, appears that 60 Minutes had their 15 minutes of fame. I guess that's kind of ironic. But here's the real reason why they did this. Friend of the show, Ryan Green, Ryan Grimm. I mean, Barry's boss, David Ellison wants to buy CNN and Warner Brothers, but his bid was too shaky and Trump was annoyed at some CBS coverage of him. So now they have to rebid. So they're going to rebid with his daddy, Larry Ellison, using the family trust to guarantee the money. And Barry spikes a piece, critical of Trump, spikes a piece. Then they air an om. So in there, in its place, they aired an homage to Rob Reiner. These are awful people who make the characters in succession look virtuous by comparison. So that's what's really happening. So they need the Trump administration to okay their thing. They also need Warner Brothers to okay. Because remember, Netflix was going to buy Warner Brothers, and now they want Larry Ellison or David Ellison wants it. The Ellison Zionist family wants it. So that's the real reason. Okay, Max Blumenthal says this. He says, did Barry Weiss try to bury 60 Minute SEACOT report to protect Marco Rubio while Stephan Miller. Is that how you say his name? You say it? Stephen. Stephen Miller has been a public face of Trump's deportation policy. It was Rubio who arranged to send 250 Venezuelan migrants to his friend Bukali and sell El Salvador where they were publicly humiliated and tortured for months. 60 Minutes not only documented hideous abuses of the migrants in Salvadorian custody, but explained how the Trump administration falsified their relationship with Trend AGUA by classifying anyone with any kind of tattoo as a bona fide trend, despite the fact that Trend AGUA members do not identify by tattoos as M13 members have. Only 3.2% of the Venezuelan migrants detained in CECOT have ever even been convicted of a violent crime. Bari Weiss justified her delay of 60 minutes report by on the absurd grounds that we need to do more. Yet her comments contained a certain truth as Rubio's central role in the scandal has been omitted. So he said. He goes on. In personally arranging the transfer of the Venezuelan migrants to Seekat, Rubio undercut Trump's special envoy to Venezuela, Rick Grinnell, who was working on a deal with Caracas that would have seen the migrants sent directly to their home country in exchange for 11American prisoners, but on the condition that Chevron have its operating license extended in Venezuela. So by transferring the migrants to SICOT instead, Rubio was able to deny oil revenue to Venezuela while escalating tensions with Maduro. Rubio also kneecapped Trump's Department of Justice through his Salvadorian scheme. In exchange for Bukali opening his dungeon to the Venezuelans, Rubio promised him that several valuable MS.13 informants would be removed from U.S. custody and returned to El Salvador where they could be silenced. The Salvador president and self described coolest dictator feared that these S13 informants would expose his secret negotiations with the gang busting his mythical image as an uncompromising crime fighter who reduced street violence with an iron fist. And so the Department of Justice was forced to relinquish valuable assets they'd spent years recruiting and cultivating. Thanks to Rubio's regime change mania. US taxpayers were billed millions of dollars to detain an overwhelmingly nonviolen lot of Venezuelan migrants in a Salvadorian torture prison, while diplomacy to free Americans was needlessly delayed. So that's what's going on. I like how he. I didn't know he referred himself as the coolest dictator. So Marco the Rube Rubio, or as he's referred to down there as Narco Rubio Duke of the White Dragon. So now you know that CBS News is completely co opted corrupted. That's the big story here. The other story here is they're, they're running cover for Marco Rubio screwing up this deal. And so Glenn Greenwald tweets out two of the largest, most alarming media stories in years. Larry Ellison, the largest single private donor to the Israeli idf, bought Paramount, cbs, CBN News and is trying to buy Warner Brothers. Discover cnn, right. As support for Israel unravels. So this is done through his son. Congress forced the transfer of TikTok into Ellison's hands, which Netanyahu said was one of Israeli's greatest victories because the platform allowed too much anti Israel content. And now there's a former IDF soldier in charge of TikTok censorship on all matters relating to Israel and antisemitism. So those are the two big stories. That's really the story here. If you go to Kalshi, you know, that's that place where you can go, it's like a prediction market. Right. If you go to Kalshi. So put that up, put up full screen. So right now the question is, will 60 Minutes release its SEACOT story? So before December 29, 34% think so. Before January 6, 33% think so. And before February 7, 78% say it's going to happen before February 2. So that's the predictions market over at Cal State. If you know what Calci is, that's a great thing. And, but they are also a sponsor. So I want to let everybody know that. But that's the prediction market. Everybody's talking about the Cal Sheep prediction market. And go ahead, see what, well, there's one, let me put, put it up full screen one more time so you can go there. And it says buy. Yes, yes. Costs 73. Is that what it says? 73 cents and no, 66. So you get to kind of, you get to go ahead and put your money where your mouth is on that. And so let me just get into a little bit more if you want to know more about what actually happened. And in behind the scenes at CBS News, I ultimately had to comply. 60 Minutes executive producer faces fallout after Barry Weiss shelves the story. So that's what the, the, the executive producer of 60 Minutes said I had to comply. Employees said it was pulled Saturday night. This, this story, it was pulled Saturday night after Weiss asked for additional reporting, including on camera interviews with, with a member of the Trump administration, according to a person familiar with the matter. By Sunday, promotional materials for the segment, including a trailer had been eliminated from the 60 Minutes website. The story had been cleared by the network's usual process and was previously vetted by standards, legal and senior editors, including Bari Weiss, according to Simon's remarks. So the fact that we're hearing about any of this means that the old model of the big three news networks controlling what we find out is an ancient fossil now and it has gone extinct. There are no functioning examples anymore, just cbs, NBC, abc, cnn, MSNBC and Fox wobbling down a dead end road. Money doesn't make them honest. In fact, it's the opposite. It's almost immediately assumed now that the fact that Larry Ellison owns you means you're lying. His name destroys your name. It does so the original preview said that Alfonsi spoke with released prisoners who describe brutal and torturous conditions inside that prison. Hundreds of Venezuelans have been deported to El Salvador under President Trump's immigration crackdown and have endured systematic torture and abuse, including sex assault during their detention, according to a November reports by Human Rights Watch. The report said conditions at sea cot breach the United States, the United nations minimal rules for the treatment of prisoners. Boy, when did Venezuela become Israel? Weiss explained her thinking in a Monday morning editorial meeting, telling staff that she held the story because it wasn't ready, according to a person who attended the meeting and spoke on a condition of anonymity. She continued, and this is 60 Minutes. We need to be able to make every effort to get the principals on the record and on camera. To me, our viewers come first, not a listing, schedule or anything else. And that is my North Star. And I hope it's the North Star of every person in this newsroom the segments production team had sent. So she's pretending that, well, we got to get the Trump administration on record. We have to get their comment, we have to get them on camera. But they did try. The segment's production team had sent questions and requested comment from the White House, the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security for the story, but the administration declined to grant the journalists an interview. Alphonse wrote that she learned Saturday that Weiss killed the story, which she says was screened five times. Government silence is a statement, not a veto, alphonse wrote. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed to kill story. So what she's saying is that so now anytime the target of a story or the subject of a story doesn't want to be interviewed, you can't run that story. So that gives them de facto censorship over that story. So if Barry Weiss says they have to have Donald Trump or somebody from the administration in that story and they refuse. Well, then they're able to cancel a story. Okay, so now. All right, so employees said it was pulled Saturday night after Weiss asked. Okay, I already got this. The last minute change has fueled internal tensions at 60 Minutes and CBS News with some staffers arguing that the decision hamstrings the network's reporters and others demanding a meeting with Weiss. The segments correspondent Sharon Alfonsi called the decision political in an internal email. If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we have effectively handed them a kill switch for any reporting that they find inconvenient. That's exactly right. So here, here's Brian Stelter. You know Brian Stelter. So he actually had a breakdown of what happened. He said. Here's what Barry Weiss said on the CBS 9am call, per a source who transcribed it. I want to say something about trust. Our trust for each other and our trust with the public. The only newsroom I'm interested in running is one in which we are able to have contentious disagreements about the thorniest editorial matters. With respect and crucially, where we assume the best intent of our colleagues. Anything else is absolutely unacceptable. So what she's saying is, hey, even though it's obvious what I'm doing and I'm screwing the newsroom and our reputation and I'm doing this at the behest of the most powerful people in the world, you need to still respect me and you need to pretend that that's not what I'm doing. You need to pretend I'm acting in good faith. That's what she's saying. I held a 60 minute story because it was not ready. While the story presented powerful testimony of torture at sea, cot it did not advance the ball. The Times and other outlets have previously done similar work. The public knows that Venezuelans have been subjected to horrific treatment at this prison to run a story on this subject two months later, we need to do more. And this is 60 Minutes. We need to be able to get the principles on the record and on camera. Our viewers come first, not the listing scale. So I just read you that part. Okay, well, here's the the irony. Andrew Procup caught this when she left the New York Times. She complained and she complained about this very thing she's doing. Now I'm old enough to remember Bari Weiss complaining about self censorship at the Times, at how politically sensitive pieces could run only after every line is carefully messaged. I'm sorry, massaged, negotiated and caveated. And how pretextual complaints about a story not being strong enough were used to justify caving for political reasons. So she's doing the exact thing she complained about the New York Times doing when she quit. And now here she is at CBS doing the exact same thing. It's kind of amazing, but that's right, that baby faced person who left the New York Times is now a senior editor. That. That's like giving a nine year old a black belt just for coming to karate class. That's what that's. So here's here, this is the, here's the letter she said. Right. So I already read you most of it, but here's the last part. We need to do a better job explaining. I told you that. She says we need to do a better job of explaining the legal rationale by which the administration detained and deported these 252 Venezuelans to seek out. It's not as simple as Trump invoking the Alien Enemies act and being able to deport them immediately. And that isn't the administration's argument. The administration has argued in court that detainees are due judicial review. And we should explain this with a voice arguing that Trump is exceeding his authority under the relevant statute and another arguing that he's operating within the bounds of his authority. There's a genuine debate here. If we cut down Kristi Noem's analysis, we, we have the time. Okay, what's okay. What's wrong with her saying that? Well, let me just finish this. My general view here is that we do our viewers the best service by presenting them with the full context they need to assess the story. In other words, I believe we need to do more reporting here. I'm so. Okay, so the problem is she's saying we need to present both sides of the story. But the problem is this story. Again, as I've told you already, the Supreme Court already dismissed Donald Trump's administration. The super hyper, the most conservative Supreme Court we've had in my lifetime has disagreed 9 to nothing with Donald Trump's argument on this. This is already settled. We don't need to present that argument anymore because the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court already held nine to nothing that the process used to send people to seekot violated due process. There wasn't even a single dissent. Barry Weiss is making up a debate that has already been settled. That's exactly what she's doing. What is happening to CBS is a terrible embarrassment. And if executives think they can build shareholder value by avoiding journalism and that might offend the mad king, they are about to learn a tough lesson. This is still America, and we don't enjoy BS like this. And of course, Derek, I already showed you this. So now they're doing this. They're putting copyright strikes on anybody who tries to run this, which is why we're going to show it immediately after this in our premium streamium. Yeah. The most astonishing thing here is that they think they're clever enough to fool us. That's really how embarrassing that these morons were able to pull one over on us at any given moment before. How would. So anyway, but we're onto them now. It's. We're onto them. So there it is. That's the story. And this is called the Streisand effect. That's what's happening. So Donald Trump was asked about the Epstein files and Bill Clinton being revealed in them because there's lots of pictures out there and there's one with Bill Clinton in a hot tub, and it's hilarious, right? So listen to Trump's response. Were you surprised by the number of photos of Bill Clinton in the Epstein files? And can you commit to their photo. Were you surprised by the number of photos of Bill Clinton in the Epstein files? And can you commit to their full release? By the end of the year, some of the victims were protesting that too many of them were retacted.