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riversedge

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Thu Aug 31, 2017, 09:37 AM Aug 2017

CNN cuts away from Trump tax speech [View all]

Thank you CNN



http://thehill.com/homenews/media/348598-cnn-cuts-away-from-trump-tax-speech

CNN cuts away from Trump tax speech

By Joe Concha - 08/30/17 03:36 PM EDT

© Screenshot/CNN

CNN cut away early from President Trump’s speech on tax reform Wednesday, breaking with other cable news and business networks.

Seven minutes into the president’s speech, at approximately 2:48 p.m., CNN switched to covering anchor Brooke Baldwin’s Skype interview with a flood victim in Texas.

Trump's speech lasted 34 minutes, until 3:15 p.m.

Fox News, Fox Business, MSNBC, CNBC, Bloomberg TV, One America News and Newsmax TV all stayed with the president's speech from a manufacturing company in Springfield, Mo., for its duration.

In staying with the speech, Fox News and MSNBC both showed what are called "triple boxes," which dedicated more than half the screen to the president's speech with his audio.................................

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