Oklahoma Senator Markwayne Mullin stopped by Hannity Tuesday night to discuss CBS’ latest deceptive editing debacle: an interview with DHS Sec. Kristi Noem.
CBS allegedly edited Noem’s interview about alleged MS-13 gang member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, an illegal migrant whom the Trump administration deported to El Salvador earlier this year.
“These liberal media outlets —if it’s not live, you cannot trust them to either it and do it right,” Mullin said about the Noem interview. “For them to edit her and to think she’s not going to come back swinging, they picked the wrong girl to mess with.”
Noem was on CBS’ Face the Nation discussing Abrego Garcia on Sunday morning. She said on X that she noticed by the afternoon that the footage had been clipped to remove part of her answer.
“This individual was a known human smuggler, a MS-13 gang member, an individual who was a wife beater, and someone who was 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,” the DHS chief said in the full, unaired clip.
Watch the edit below:
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.
Watch for the part of my interview that @CBS tried to… pic.twitter.com/28fsGZug48
— Secretary Kristi Noem (@Sec_Noem) August 31, 2025
President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit in October 2024 against CBS and its parent company, Paramount, alleging that a 60 Minutes interview with then–Vice President Kamala Harris was deceptively edited to harm his election prospects.
In July 2025, Paramount agreed to settle the lawsuit for $16 million, which will go to Trump’s future presidential library — not to Trump directly. The agreement includes no apology or admission of wrongdoing.
Sounds like they haven’t learned the lesson.