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Fox News anchor Shepard Smith defended CNN on Friday after the news organization was barred from spokesman Sean Spicer’s question-and-answer session at the White House.

Fox News anchor Shepard Smith is leaving his 7 p.m. ET timeslot to take on a larger role heading up the network’s new breaking news division. Beginning this fall, the new division, with Smith as the main anchor and its managing editor, will have the capability to break into any Fox News programming, daytime or primetime, with the latest reporting, network spokeswoman Ashley Nerz told TheBlaze.

Here is video of Fox News' Shepard Smith yesterday giving a personal commentary at the end of his broadcast where he blasted BP Executive Tony Hayward for having said he expects lots of lawsuits against his company because "this is America - there will be frivolous lawsuits." Smith launched into an indignant pounding of Hayward, for also having apparently said the oil leak in the Gulf is "a relatively small leak" compared to the amount of water in the Gulf. "Mr. Hayward, that Gulf is the source of life for millions upon millions of people, and plants, and other creatures...