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Only a few hours into their coverage of the deadly terror attack New York City on Tuesday, CNN found it more important to break away to continue to their Robert Mueller marathon. “A terror attack that killed eight people and injured a dozen others when a man in a truck mowed down bike riders and pedestrians on the west side. Much more on that coming up,” declared Wolf Blitzer. “But we have another breaking story we're following right now. President Trump and the Russia investigation.”
But perhaps there was some sort of very important late-breaking development, someone else was indicted, someone confessed to collusion with Russia, or maybe: “Wolf, we do know that the President, for now, is going to reject the advice of Steve Bannon. Of course, this is the advice of how to handle this special counsel of Bob Mueller, how to treat him essentially,” reported Jeff Zeleny after “BREAKING NEWS” blasted across the screen.
They broke away from a terror attack that left at least 8 people dead and 15 injured, not to report the President fired Special Counsel Bob Mueller, but to report Trump was listening to his lawyers and would play nice with him. Zeleny elaborated:
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