CBS News’ flagship show is struggling to fill its guest seats with anyone willing to openly criticize Donald Trump—especially under its new MAGA-curious boss, Bari Weiss.

The latest episode of 60 Minutes focused on Trump’s pardon of billionaire Chinese felon Changpeng Zhao—founder of the cryptocurrency giant Binance—a move critics have blasted as “corruption.”

Zhao, whom the Justice Department accused of causing “significant harm to U.S. national security,” received a pardon months after Binance struck a $2 billion partnership deal with the Trump family’s crypto venture, World Liberty Financial.

But while dozens of people directly involved with “all aspects” of the pardon spoke with CBS for the episode, journalist Scott Pelley said they refused to appear on camera—for the same reason.

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