Homeland security secretary Christie Nom accused CBS News of selective editing footage from his Sunday interview, cutting some of his comments about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Salvadoran National, who was accidentally deported and returned to the US to face different allegations.
In A statement on sundayThe Homeland Security Department (DHS) stated that CBS “misleading” edited the answers of the secretary, when CBS news was cut on the “Face the Nation” about four minutes from an interview of about 17 minutes when aired on “Face the Nation”.
“This morning, I joined CBS, to report the facts about Kilmar Abrego Garcia,” NoM said in a statement. “Instead, CBS embarrassedly edited the interview to whiten the truth about a member of this MS -13 gang and he is a threat to American public security.”
CBS News, however, suggests that the interview was edited to fit its allotted time slot in an hour -long broadcast and the entire interview was published online.
A CBS News spokesperson said in a statement by The Hill, “Secretary NoM’s ‘Face the Nation’ interview was edited for time and all CBS news standards were met.” “The entire interview is publicly available on YouTube, and the full transcript was posted on cbsnews.com on Sunday morning.”
NOEM allegation is the latest example Administration’s ongoing quarrel With CBS and its original company Paramount.
Before this summer, paramount Agreed to pay $ 16 million In the 2024 election, a “60 -minute” interview -friendly news outlet with his democratic rival, then Vice President Harris, to prosecute claims with President Trump on claims.
NOEM’s Sunday interview, segments of their reactions for live broadcasting include allegations against Abrego Garcia, which have not been confirmed and who refuses his lawyers.
These include allegations that Maryland’s resident “was a known human smuggler, a member of the MS -13 gang, a man who was a wife Beater, and someone who was so distorted that he pleaded with the naked photographs from the minors and even his fellow human smugglers asked him to knock on,” Joe Nome said in the interview section of the interviews that DHS’s claims were removed from the interview. Was.
The DHS statement includes other sections of the CBS interview which were reportedly not live on Sunday morning.
Earlier this week, lawyer for Abrego Garcia Asked a federal judge To issue a gag order against NOEM and Attorney General Palm Bondi, prevent them from making “baseless public attacks” against their customer Human trafficking charges In 2022, stems from traffic stops.
Lawyers of Abrego Garcia said In a Thursday speed For the central district of Tennessee, the US District Court has been filed which is with the officials of the administration Target your customer Since he was released from prison“Leveling highly prejudice, inflammatory and false statement.”
“To protect his right to a fair trial, Mr. Abrego honorably renewed his earlier requests that the court ordered that all DOJs and DHS officers are involved in the case, and all officers are included in their supervisory chain, including, which included, [Bondi and Noem]The lawyers refrained from making sufficient possibility of bias to prejudice this action, ”the lawyers asked the US District Judge Waverli Krench in a 15-hit proposal.
A DHS official pushed back against the gag order request.
A DHS official told Hill on Friday morning, “If Kilmar did not want to mention by the secretary of Abrego Garcia Homeland Security, he should not have illegally entered our country and commit heinous crimes.”
“Once again, the media is falling on its own to protect a member of this criminal illegal MS -13 gang,” the DHS official said. “The sympathetic tale of the media about this criminal illegal alien is completely separated, yet they continue his Sob story.”
“We hear a lot about the false SOB stories of gang members and criminals and are not enough about their victims,” the official said.
Abrego Garcia’s lawyers were described as their customer Can be deported For Uganda, but a federal judge Said on Monday The administration is “absolutely forbidden” to remove Abrego Garcia until the hearing so far.
