Watch: Stephen Miller Goes Scorched-Earth After '60 Minutes' Staff Caught Working to Protect Child Killers and Rapists

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller responded forcefully Tuesday to reports of internal turmoil at 60 Minutes, after CBS staffers reportedly objected to a decision to shelve a segment portraying deportations to El Salvador’s notorious CECOT mega-prison in a sympathetic light.

According to reports, a leaked version of the unaired segment framed hardened criminal aliens as victims — an approach Miller suggested was entirely predictable given the ideological bent of much of the legacy media.

Speaking Tuesday night, Miller mocked the apparent sympathies of disgruntled CBS employees, suggesting they should be willing to personally house the violent criminals they seem so eager to defend.

The internal dispute reportedly erupted after the segment was pulled from broadcast earlier this week, triggering outrage among staffers who claimed their reporting had been unfairly suppressed by management.

The White House countered that the piece failed a basic journalistic test: it downplayed or ignored the crimes committed by the very criminal aliens being deported — including brutal acts of violence against women and children.

CNN reported that some CBS employees were so incensed by the decision that they threatened to quit, alleging censorship by CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss.

Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi argued in an internal memo that the public would interpret the decision not to air what critics described as favorable coverage of the Tren de Aragua gang as corporate interference rather than editorial judgment, according to Fox News.

Alfonsi and anonymous CBS sources cited by CNN claimed the segment had already undergone fact-checking and legal review and was supposedly ready for broadcast.

Weiss later defended the decision, explaining that part of her responsibility is ensuring reporting includes proper context — particularly as CBS attempts to return to something resembling actual journalism under her leadership.

Miller declined to respond directly to questions submitted by CBS regarding the shelved segment. Instead, he addressed the controversy during an appearance on “Jesse Watters Primetime,” guest-hosted by Charlie Hurt.

“They are trying to tell sob stories about Tren de Aragua gang members who drill holes in people’s hands, who rape and murder little girls,” Miller said of 60 Minutes.

He added, “This is the gang that kidnapped, sexually assaulted, and murdered Jocelyn Nungaray. Remember her? That precious 12-year-old girl from Texas who was taken from her mom and went through horrors none of us can even imagine?”

Miller then proposed a blunt thought experiment aimed squarely at the producers pushing the segment.

“And you have these ‘60 Minutes’ producers who are living in comfort and security in their West End condos trying to make us feel sympathetic for these monsters? Have you seen the tattoos, the face tattoos, the body tattoos on these killers? Would one ’60 Minutes’ producer or writer agree to spend 30 minutes … I’ll make a deal. We will pick someone at random that we sent to CECOT, just a random lottery drawn, and they will spend one day overnight in your apartment. Who is taking that deal at ’60 Minutes?’ Nobody. Because they know that these are monsters who got exactly what they deserved.”

Miller’s point was unmistakable. No one at CBS is volunteering to share their home with a violent criminal because they understand precisely who these individuals are and why they were deported.

They would never knowingly place themselves in danger by living with someone capable of rape or murder.

Yet many of these same media figures appear perfectly comfortable insisting that American families — wives, daughters, sisters, and mothers — bear that risk every day.