ABC, CBS and NBC cut away from President Trump's speech in response to his false claims about the presidential election

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"We have to cut away here because the president has made a number of false allegations," Lester Holt told NBC viewers. The three major networks began showing Trump's Thursday evening speech with a caption that votes were still being counted, while MSNBC immediately cut him off. “It was not rooted in reality — and at this point, where our country is, it’s dangerous," MSNBC's Brian Williams said of Trump's speech. On ABC, David Muir cut away to fact-check Trump with White House correspondent Jon Karl. CBS News' Norah O'Donnell also cut away from Trump's speech for fact-checking. CNN showed a chyron that read: "WITHOUT ANY EVIDENCE, TRUMP SAYS HE'S BEING CHEATED" Afterwards, Jake Tapper said on CNN: "What a sad night for the United States of America to hear their President say that. To falsely accuse people of trying to steal the election, to try to attack democracy that way with his feast of falsehoods. Lie after lie after lie." On Fox News, anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum uncritically repeated Trump's baseless claims after showing a chyron during his speech that read: "TRUMP: 'WE HAVE SO MUCH PROOF." CNBC's Shepard Smith also cut off Trump. “We’re interrupting this because what the president of the United States is saying, in large part, is absolutely untrue,” Smith said. “And we’re not going to allow it to keep going. Because it’s not true.”