Sharyn Alfonsi emailed fellow CBS correspondents Sunday stating that new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss spiked a 60 Minutes segment Saturday, describing the last-minute change as a political decision and corporate censorship, according to a Wall Street Journal report cited in X posts over the past 59 minutes from 2:16 AM UTC on December 22, 2025. In the obtained note shared by @grynbaum on X, Alfonsi wrote, "We are trading 50 years of 'Gold Standard' reputation for a single week of political quiet." She learned of the spiking Saturday and viewed it as political rather than editorial, per the WSJ article linked by @thesimonetti. The decision relates to CBS's earlier removal of a 30-second preview video for the 60 Minutes "Inside CECOT" report from all websites and social media platforms on December 21, as noted in X posts by @LorenCollins and @wideofthepost during prior reporting windows. In a separate development over the past hour, Vice President JD Vance stated in an interview with Sohrab Ahmari, summarized on X by @yashar, that anyone attacking his wife "whether their name is Jen Psaki or Nick Fuentes, can eat shit. Thatās my official policy as vice president of the United States." Vance added, āAntisemitism, and all forms of ethnic hatred have no place in the conservative movement,ā defended Tucker Carlson as "a friend" whose views are not "anathema to conservatism," and criticized Ro Khanna, AOC, and Chris Murphy for policies that "would deny [his kids] jobs and opportunities because they have the wrong skin color," according to the interview summary linked at https://bit.ly/3YCIXYv.
