As President Donald Trump threatened sanctions for those who didn’t cover his address live Thursday night, the nation’s broadcast and cable news operations wrestled with the thorniest of questions: To

The decision whether to carry a presidential address has become a high-stakes editorial judgment.

TV networks worry they could be doing their viewers a disservice by airing a speech that may contain falsehoods about the 2020 election

The broadcasters will stream the address and break in if needed, with other networks still scrambling to determine their plans for the speech.