Anderson Cooper pulls the plug on Trump speech coverage over lack of specifics

Donald Trump keeps promising that one of these days he'll offer specifics on all of his grand policy ideas — but that day seems to always be tomorrow. Tuesday night was no different.
As Trump gave his big foreign policy speech in Iowa, CNN — and Anderson Cooper — decided it'd had just about enough of Trump's empty promises. When Trump once again didn't deliver on specifics, speaking instead "in broad terms about doing good things for the military and veterans," Cooper cut Trump off, Mediaite reports.
"We've been told to expect specifics on national security. So far we have not heard any," Cooper said. "We're going to continue to monitor this. The speech right now seem to be kind of a standard stump speech." Cooper promised that if Trump got specific, CNN would return to the speech. It never did.
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