'60 Minutes' postpones segment on migrant inmates from El Salvador's CECOT prison

CBS' "60 Minutes" has delayed a segment interviewing migrants who were sent to El Salvador's maximum-security prison, CECOT, after being deported by the Trump administration.

The segment "Inside CECOT" was originally going to feature correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi interviewing "some of the now released deportees, who describe the brutal and torturous conditions."

"Earlier this year, the Trump administration deported hundreds of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador, a country most had no ties to, claiming they were terrorists. This move sparked an ongoing legal battle, and nine months later the U.S. government still has not released the names of all those deported and placed in CECOT, one of El Salvador’s harshest prisons," the press release for the segment read.

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Hours before the episode was set to air on Sunday, however, the show released an editor's note on X delaying the segment.

"The broadcast lineup for tonight's edition of 60 Minutes has been updated. Our report 'Inside CECOT' will air in a future broadcast," the note read.

The segment was replaced with one titled "The Kanneh-Masons," focusing on seven British siblings who "have become sensations in the classical music world."

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The show did not provide a reason for the delay, but a CBS spokesperson informed Fox News Digital that the network "determined it needed additional reporting ."

"60 Minutes" also privatized its preview for the segment on its YouTube channel, which featured Alfonsi speaking to a former inmate about his "four months of hell."

"Did you think you were going to die there?" Alfonsi asked.

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"We thought we were already the living dead honestly," one prisoner responded.

The Trump administration has faced controversy for deporting hundreds of Venezuelan gang members to CECOT earlier this year. In March, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg issued an emergency order blocking President Donald Trump from deporting certain migrants to El Salvador. Despite the order, hundreds of migrants remained in CECOT for months.

Boasberg has since ordered the Department of Justice to provide the status and location of the migrants.

Trump's team reports concrete progress in Ukraine peace negotiations with European partners

U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff said talks in Florida between American, Ukrainian and European officials have produced concrete progress toward a structured peace framework, fueling signs that negotiations to end Russia’s war in Ukraine may be entering a decisive phase.

"Over the last three days in Florida, the Ukrainian delegation held a series of productive and constructive meetings with American and European partners," Witkoff wrote on X. "The Ukrainian delegation included Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, Rustem Umerov, and the Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Lieutenant General Andriy Hnatov."

The American delegation included Special Envoy Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and White House staff member Josh Gruenbaum, alongside key national security advisors from Europe.

"A separate constructive meeting was also held in a U.S.–Ukraine format, during which four key documents were focused on: further development of a 20-point plan, aligning positions on a Multilateral security guarantee framework, aligning positions on a US Security guarantee framework for Ukraine, and further development on an economic & prosperity plan," Witkoff said. "Particular attention was given to discussing timelines and the sequencing of next steps.

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"Ukraine remains fully committed to achieving a just and sustainable peace," he continued. "Our shared priority is to stop the killing, ensure guaranteed security, and create conditions for Ukraine’s recovery, stability, and long-term prosperity. Peace must be not only a cessation of hostilities, but also a dignified foundation for a stable future.

"Ukraine highly values the leadership and support of the United States and the continued close coordination with its partners in the next stages of this important work," Witkoff concluded.

The special envoy’s comments come after Finland President Alexander Stubb said Sunday that negotiators are closer than at any point during the war to securing a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine, crediting U.S. diplomacy and pressure from sanctions on Russian oil as talks enter what he described as their most difficult final stage.

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"We’re probably closer [to reaching a peace agreement] than we have been at any time of this war," Stubb said on "The Sunday Briefing."

He added that Kushner and Witkoff have spent the past several weeks "working around the clock" to narrow differences between the two sides.

Stubb also credited unity between Western allies after talks last weekend in Berlin, making note of two key takeaways.

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"One was that Europe, Ukraine and the United States were united in our resolve to get a just and lasting peace... and the second one was the idea of security guarantees for Ukraine," Stubb said. "So, we're sort of almost there, but the most difficult 5% are still left."

Stubb said Russia’s private negotiating posture may be more flexible than President Vladimir Putin’s public rhetoric but warned Moscow’s core objective remains the destruction of Ukraine’s existence.

The Finnish president added that he has been in close contact with Trump, Witkoff and Kushner as talks intensify, arguing that mounting economic pressure on Russia is making the negotiating strategy effective.

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U.S. sanctions on Russian oil giants Lukoil and Rosneft are biting, Stubb said, warning that a flat rejection of a U.S.-Ukraine-Europe peace framework should trigger even tougher measures.

He argued that U.S. sanctions targeting Russian oil giants Lukoil and Rosneft have been particularly effective.

If Russia were to flatly reject a peace framework agreed upon by Ukraine, Europe and the U.S., "that's when it's time to hike up the sanctions," Stubb said, "because they work."

Fox News Digital’s Max Bacall contributed to this report.

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