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Donald Trump falsely claimed he was leading the election and made false allegations that the Democrats were stealing the election through "illegal" votes. - Though the speech lasted 15 minutes,
MSNBC cut it off after just 35 seconds. - Explaining why the network made the decision later in the broadcast, anchor Brian Williams said the president's speech was not "rooted in reality" and was "dangerous."
- Other networks like Fox News and CNN aired the speech in full, according to $4.
As President Donald Trump falsely claimed victory in the
In the speech, $4 and repeated a lie that he had an early lead in some states before it got "whittled away in secret."
"I've already decisively won several critical states including massive victories in Florida, Iowa, Indiana, and Ohio," Trump claimed early on in the speech, apparently ignoring Biden's flipping of Michigan and Wisconsin, and lead in Nevada and Arizona.
It was at that point that MSNBC interrupted the speech, with anchor Brian Williams coming on to talk about the president's claims with the network's chief legal correspondent, Ari Melber.
Watch the moment here:
"OK, here were are again in the unusual position of not only interrupting the president of the United States, but correcting the president of the United States," Williams said.
"There are no illegal votes that we know of, there has been no Trump victory that we know of," he added.
Later in the broadcast, Williams explained why the network decided not to air Trump's speech in full, saying it "was not done as a stunt or out of theatrics, we just can't have it," according to $4.
"It's not rooted in reality. And at this point where our country is, it's dangerous."
Fox News and CNN aired Trump's speech in full, according to $4. Other networks like CBS, NBC, and ABC News also cut short their broadcast of the speech, but showed more of it than MSNBC.
Fox News $4 to immediately fact check the speech, but later published a $4 on the speech drawing "criticism from some Republicans."
CNN published a $4 of the president's remarks shortly after they were delivered, calling it "the most dishonest speech of his presidency." The network also broadcast its anchors $4 the speech "dangerous" and "nonsensical," and former GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum $4 on air to say the speech was "very disappointing and shocking."
MSNBC reporter Nicolle Wallace told The Daily Beast that she was proud of her network for the decision not to air the full speech, saying it was "one of the more dangerous acts" Trump has committed as president.