CBS’ “Face the Nation” Caught Deceptively Editing Kristi Noem Interview

CBS’ “Face the Nation” was just exposed for cutting nearly four minutes from a 17 minute-long interview with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. “This morning, I joined CBS to report the facts about Kilmar Abrego Garcia. Instead, CBS shamefully edited the interview to whitewash the truth about this MS-13 gang member and the threat he poses to American public safety,” she posted on X.

The following was cut from her answer: “This individual [Kilmar Abrego Garcia] was a known human smuggler, MS-13 gang member, an individual who was  a wife beater, and someone who was um so perverted that he solicited nude photos from minors. And even his fellow human traffickers told him to knock it off. He was so sick in what he was doing and how he was treating small children. So, uh, he needs to  never be in the United States of America and our administration is making sure we're doing all that we can to bring him to justice.”

The DHS posted a list of parts of the interview that CBS cut on their website, which are below (all bullet points are direct quotes from the DHS website). 

• During an answer to a question about Secretary Noem’s successful arrest of 5,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles, CBS cut the following: “...And many of these individuals were people who have, you know, conducted horrific um horrific activities against American citizens, trafficking of children and pedophiles. And so that's uh one of the things that the people of a LA can be grateful for is that they don't have those bad actors, those people on their streets anymore because of the work of President Trump and his administration.”
• CBS also edited out Secretary Noem’s answers explaining how she is fighting for the American people and ensuring taxpayer dollars are being spent correctly: “...You know, in Washington, D.C., I rarely run into anybody who says, ‘I'm a lobbyist for the American taxpayer.’ Well, guess what, Kristi Noem is.  Every day I get up and I think the American people are paying for this. Should they? And are these dollars doing what the law says they should be doing? I'm going to make sure that they go there and they're spent what's appropriate according to the law and that the taxpayers understand that it's a worthwhile effort.”
• CBS also thought it in the interest of their viewers to edit out Secretary Noem’s expectations for all employees of DHS to work on the American people’s behalf: “...And my hope is that every single person within the Department of Homeland Security, but also in this government gets up every day wanting to make America safer, wanting to do their job and to contribute to that in a very productive way.”

The longest answer cut was when Noem was asked if ICE was lowering hiring standards to double the size of its current force (in hiring another 10,000 people), which Noem pointed out wouldn’t be necessary because they got over 130,000 applications for those positions.  

Back in July, Paramount Global and CBS settled a lawsuit brought by Donald Trump against “60 Minutes” for $16 million which alleged that they deceptively edited an interview with Kamala Harris, to “tip the scales in favour of the Democratic party.”