Despite having only each covered it once Monday, ABC and CBS were back Tuesday to ignoring video released in the brutal murder of Ukrainian refugee Iryna Zarutska in Charlotte, North Carolina, omitting it from their flagship morning shows, ABC’s Good Morning America and CBS Mornings.

This return to a bias by omission came after Monday’s CBS Mornings broke the blackout on the lead broadcast network newscasts of this bloody, horrifying, and unprovoked attack while ABC’s World News Tonight and NBC Nightly News arrived on scene later in the day.

NBC’s Today was the only early Tuesday flagship show to highlight it:

As part of a larger segment on President Trump’s push to crackdown on crime nationwide and deportation operations of illegal immigrants, senior White House correspondent Gabe Gutierrez said Trump “has repeatedly framed the expansion of force around crime” and, in Tuesday morning speech, invoked the “recent attack in Charlotte, North Carolina where a Ukrainian woman Iryna Zarutska, was attacked on a late-night train in August.”

He then played a small portion of Trump’s comments on this evil attack: “We have to be able to handle that. If we don’t handle that, we don’t have a country.”

Gutierrez then continued, offering spin from North Carolina Democrat Governor Josh Stein and Charlotte Democrat Mayor Vi Lyles:

Disturbing video recently released by authorities show a man attacking the 23-year-old. Investigators say the suspect is 34-year-old DeCarlos Brown Jr., who’s now charged with murder. Police and court records show that brown had been arrested more than a dozen times. The President also posting, “her blood is on the hands of the Democrats who refuse to put bad people in jail.” Now, North Carolina’s Democratic governor argues that the state needs more police officers and he’s calling for new legislation to help recruit them. Also yesterday, Charlotte’s mayor announcing the city will increase security on public transit and hire more personnel.

This leaves the total network coverage of the murder at just under six and a half minutes between ABC, CBS, and NBC, a paltry number compared to, say, the Daniel Penny case or even the Epstein files.

To see the relevant NBC transcript from September 9, click “expand.”

NBC’s Today
September 9, 2025
7:09 a.m. Eastern

GABE GUTIERREZ: The President has repeatedly framed the expansion of force around crime. At the same event, responding to a recent attack in Charlotte, North Carolina where a Ukrainian woman Iryna Zarutska, was attacked on a late-night train in August.

PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We have to be able to handle that. If we don’t handle that, we don’t have a country.

GUTIERREZ: Disturbing video recently released by authorities show a man attacking the 23-year-old. Investigators say the suspect is 34-year-old DeCarlos Brown Jr., who’s now charged with murder. Police and court records show that brown had been arrested more than a dozen times. The President also posting, “her blood is on the hands of the Democrats who refuse to put bad people in jail.” Now, North Carolina’s Democratic governor argues that the state needs more police officers and he’s calling for new legislation to help recruit them. Also yesterday, Charlotte’s mayor announcing the city will increase security on public transit and hire more personnel.