CBS News joins Kristi Noem on ICE raid after Bari Weiss’ 60 Minutes controversy | EUROtoday

CBS Evening News embedded with Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Tuesday as a part of the continued DHS crackdown on alleged fraud and immigration violations within the Minneapolis space.

The Trump administration official’s look is without doubt one of the first main interviews of latest community editor-in-chief Bari Weiss’s current relaunch of the storied program with new lead anchor Tony Dokoupil.

During Tuesday’s section, Noem may very well be seen in tactical gear personally accompanying closely armed DHS brokers to arrest a person named Tomas Espin Tapia.

Tapia, Trump administration officers informed The Independentillegally entered the U.S. from Ecuador in 2022 and had an lively warrant for sexual assault in Connecticut.

In an accompanying sit-down interview with reporter Nicole Sganga, Noem defended the Trump administration’s ongoing crackdown in Minneapolis and downplayed the president’s current, inflammatory feedback evaluating Somalis within the space to “garbage.”

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“I’m focused on policing the streets, not policing President Trump’s words,” Noem mentioned.

“If you think you can come to this country and get rich defrauding the American people, think again,” she wrote in a press release on X, resharing a clip of the section. “We will root out every case of fraud we find from Minneapolis to California to New York.”

The Trump administration is ramping up an operation within the Minneapolis space that might embrace as many as 2,000 brokers.

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The White House launched the marketing campaign after a viral video alleged fraud at federally supported day care facilities. Local officers dispute claims within the video.

Noem’s interview additionally comes after one other high-profile CBS present, 60 Minuteswas informed by Weiss shortly earlier than airtime final month to tug a deliberate section about how DHS despatched lots of of migrants to a infamous Salvadoran jail, an editorial choice broadly panned inside and outdoors the CBS Newsroom.

Weiss reportedly informed producers, who had cleared the section via a number of layers of inner evaluation, that an on-camera response from a Trump administration official was wanted.

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Internal deliberations across the section, in addition to a model of the clip itself, leaked on-line and within the media. In one of many leaks, the section’s correspondent, Sharyn Alfonsi, accused Weiss of giving the Trump administration a “‘kill switch’ for any reporting they find “inconvenient.”

Weiss’s tenure at CBS, which has reportedly been marked by fixed infighting, has been underneath heavy scrutiny, given the the extremely politicized environment through which she took the reins on the broadcaster.

Weiss’s choice making across the CECOT section sparked claims she was influenced by political pressures, owing to CBS guardian firm Paramount Skydance’s ongoing bid to take over Warner Bros. Discovery, a transfer that would want federal clearance.

In August, Skydance and Paramount formally merged following a sophisticated course of dogged with accusations of political meddling.

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Skydance was based by David Ellison, son of the billionaire Oracle tech mogul and Trump supporter Larry Ellison.

Shortly earlier than the merger was full, with approval hanging within the steadiness, Paramount agreed to a $16 million settlement in a lawsuit from Trump in opposition to 60 Minuteswhich had alleged it deceptively edited an interview together with his 2024 rival Kamala Harris.