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CNN Cuts Ties With Kathy Griffin Over Controversial Trump Video

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LOS ANGELES (AP) —CNN says it has cut ties with Kathy Griffin after she posted a video that showed her holding a likeness of President Donald Trump's severed head.

The network says it has terminated its agreement with the comedian to appear on its New Year's Eve programs. For a decade she had co-hosted the annual special with CNN correspondent Anderson Cooper.

Her future with CNN had been in doubt since the video appeared on Tuesday. CNN initially called it "disgusting and offensive."

In addition to her losing the CNN job, a New Mexico casino said it was canceling a July live engagement, and she has lost a commercial endorsement she landed just weeks ago.

She originally described the project with photographer Tyler Shields as an "artsy fartsy statement" mocking the commander-in-chief. Griffin has since apologized for the video.

"I went too far," she says in a second video. "I sincerely apologize."

President Donald Trump said Griffin "should be ashamed of herself."

In a post on his Twitter account Wednesday morning, the president says, "My children, especially my 11-year-old son, Barron, are having a hard time with this. Sick!"

Many people online called for Griffin to be jailed.

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