Blowback over Kristi Noem interview prompts CBS News to change rules for "Face the Nation" Wesley StenzelSeptember 6, 2025 at 2:49 AM 0 face the nation Kristi Noem on 'Face the Nation' on CBS NewsKey points CBS News will now only air unedited interviews on Face the Nation.
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Wesley StenzelSeptember 6, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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CBS News will now only air unedited interviews on Face the Nation.
The policy change came after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem criticized the network for cutting four minutes out of her interview.
The Department of Homeland Security described the policy change as a "victory."
CBS News is changing its policies for interviews on Face the Nation after Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem criticized the broadcast of her Aug. 31 conversation with the program.
A spokesperson for the network told Entertainment Weekly that Face the Nation will change its rules to only broadcast unedited interviews.
"In response to audience feedback over the past week, we have implemented a new policy for greater transparency in our interviews," the spokesperson said. "Face the Nation will now only broadcast live or live-to-tape interviews (subject to national security or legal restrictions). This extra measure means the television audience will see the full, unedited interview on CBS and we will continue our practice of posting full transcripts and the unedited video online."
A representative from the Department of Homeland Security responded to the news in a statement to EW. "Americans are fed up with endless whitewashing by the media — they want the whole truth, and they deserve the whole truth," a spokesperson said. "This week, Americans made that clear, and this is their victory."
Noem previously accused CBS News of attempting to "whitewash the TRUTH" about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the man who was deported to El Salvador in March, after the network shortened her response to a question about him.
CBS News posted Ed O'Keefe's full unedited interview with Noem on YouTube on Sunday. The video runs for 16 minutes and 40 seconds, whereas the broadcast version ran for 12 minutes and 15 seconds.
DHS slammed the edited interview in a press release on Sunday. CBS News initially said that the edited interview "met all CBS News standards" (via The New York Times). It is standard practice for broadcast news outlets to edit interviews in order to condense their runtimes, as most TV programs must fit all of their content into a strict, unchangeable time block.
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Kristi Noem in Washington, DC, on July 16, 2025
CBS News' journalistic practices and policies regarding political coverage have been subject to widespread scrutiny in the last 12 months. In November, Donald Trump filed a lawsuit against the network's parent company, Paramount, after Face the Nation aired an interview with his political opponent in the presidential election, Kamala Harris. Trump sought $10 billion and accused CBS News of editing the interview in order to "tip the scales [of the election] in favor of the Democratic party."
Paramount eventually opted to settle the case and agreed to pay Trump $16 million in July. Critics including Sen. Elizabeth Warren and the Writers Guild of America East viewed the decision as an attempt to appease Trump in the midst of the company's then-pending merger with Skydance, which required approval from the Trump administration. The deal was approved later that month, and closed on Aug. 7.
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Paramount also came under fire for canceling The Late Show With Stephen Colbert three days after the show criticized the CBS News-Trump settlement. Warren suggested that the show was canceled for "political reasons" related to the settlement, though the network has consistently stated that pulling the plug on the show was "purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night."
Additionally, in April, The New York Times reported that longtime 60 Minutes producer Bill Owens resigned from the show.
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