Overview
- Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused CBS News of cutting her on-air comments about Kilmar Abrego Garcia and posted the uncut exchange that included unproven allegations of MS-13 membership, human smuggling, domestic abuse, and soliciting nude photos from minors.
- CBS said the Face the Nation segment was trimmed for the broadcast time slot and stated the full interview and transcript were posted online, a position the network reiterated on Tuesday.
- The Department of Homeland Security said CBS "deceptively" edited the appearance and contended roughly four minutes were removed from a nearly 17-minute interview for the televised version.
- Abrego Garcia’s attorneys asked a federal judge in Tennessee to bar statements by senior officials, citing recent remarks by Noem, Attorney General Pam Bondi, DHS posts, and other media appearances as likely to taint a jury pool.
- Abrego Garcia was mistakenly deported to El Salvador in March, returned to the U.S. in June by the Justice Department, and indicted on human-smuggling conspiracy charges; he was re-detained by ICE, and a judge has temporarily forbidden his removal pending a hearing.