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Diane Love (St Petersburg FL)'s avatar

This is sickening and criminal, no question. Thank you for posting.

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Nancy Frakes's avatar

Great to read a transcript of the CECOT piece!

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Donna Maurillo's avatar

More than a transcript. View the video, as well.

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Nancy Frakes's avatar

Absolutely, watching the video is very important. I liked having the transcript to make sure of the details in the video. Sort of like being able to refer to the “fine print”!

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Mariantoon's avatar

Thank you XVOA. Bari Weiss is a piece of work! She has a substack. Latest post about Christianity...cringe. Congress should sue the executive branch over the use of CECOT prison in El Salvador. Illegal use of funds or constitutional authority. Human rights violations etc. Kristi Noem needs to be investigated and removed from power. IMO Holman needs to be in jail ASAP for bribery. 47 regime is all about cover-up and it is not working! We the People are pissed!

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Xplisset's avatar

Mariantoon, thank you. You’ve been riding with me from early on and I don’t forget that.

And nope you’re not wrong to zoom in on the accountability piece. If the executive branch is using CECOT in a way that skirts Congress’s power of the purse or basic constitutional limits, that’s not “content,” that’s a real separation of powers problem. I appreciate you keeping your eye on this ball.

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J L Graham's avatar

Thank you

Thank you

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James R. Carey's avatar

I didn’t want to watch this, but you can’t always get what you want. Thank you for giving me what I needed by providing the link. Everyone needs to watch this.

Someone said this is the most watched 60 Minutes segment in the 56-year history of the show. It never ceases to amaze me how good God is at turning lemons into lemonade.

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Deepak Puri's avatar

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Pasqual Allen's avatar

And I will say I saw the Barri Weiss columns change from when she started having these MAGA based articles. She’s like a rapper who’s not a gangster but all of a sudden wants to say he’s a gangster. Bari is clearly trying to pull this maga agenda all over CBS.

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Pasqual Allen's avatar

X you have no idea how important this piece is. Thank you for your hard work. You are so vital to credible and informed journalism. Sharon Aldoni is a hero. She called it out. People should be talking about this what Bari Weiss is doing. See she uses the whole I’m gay how could I be for a racist regime narrative. I’m a liberal. We see through the bulllshit. She’s carrying the maga water. 💦 and that is coming from someone who supported her at the New York Times. Slang we say I fuck with Bari Weiss meaning I would listen to what she was writing and supported her and her columns. But when you see what she clearly is doing you have to acknowledge it. 60 minutes isn’t political it’s supposed to be the news. What was done here was them putting there feet in the shallow pool of propaganda and just seeing what the response would be and we’ve spoken with an emphatic no!!!!!!!

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Harold Michael Harvey's avatar

Thank you for sharing the transcript of this story.

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Maggie's avatar

I have to say - exactly what did this bunch of looney tunes THINK was going to happen when they pulled it? Sixty Minutes "fans" watch that show because its one of the few news shows that actually does true news stories. Pulling it was the absolute best way possible to make sure that someone somewhere would find a way to leak it. Is it irony that a Canadian was the one? I bet there are a few Canadians having a field day with this one!

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Donna Maurillo's avatar

Thanks so much for this. I've posted the link on a liberal Facebook page. It should go far and wide.

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