TV networks cut away from the White House coronavirus briefing as Trump contradicted his health experts

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• CNN, MSNBC, ABC News, NBC News, and CBS News cut away from President Trump's lengthy coronavirus briefing on Monday night.
• During the briefing, Trump chafed at the idea of continuing the widespread order for people to stay home, which is harming the economy,  even though his own top infectious disease expert Dr. Anthony Fauci had said that social distancing measures would need to be in place for "several weeks."
• CBS said in a statement to Insider that they would "continue to cover the briefings whenever possible" but may need to cut away for evening programming. But MSNBC told Insider, "We cut away because the information no longer appeared to be valuable to the important ongoing discussion around public health."
• Critics of the president have called for networks to stop airing the briefings in their entirety. "All of us should stop broadcasting it, honestly," MSNBC's Rachel Maddow said Friday. "It's going to cost lives."
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On Monday night, most of the major television networks, with the exception of Fox News, cut away from President Donald Trump's daily coronavirus briefing.

Though the briefings often feature a rotating cast of administration health experts like Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Dr. Anthony Fauci and Surgeon General Jerome Adams, more often than not, they have allowed Trump to make inaccurate declarations about the administration's response and undercut the dire warnings of these professionals that Americans need to stay home to stop the virus from spreading.

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