Chris Cuomo appears to be obsessed with Trump-Russia stories.

On Wednesday, his CNN morning show “New Day” spent 93 percent of the three-hour program covering Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Russian lawyer and allegations the Trump campaign might have colluded with Russia during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to a study done by the Media Research Center.

The remainder of the program, according to the study, was spent on negative coverage of the Republican health care bill (5.5 percent) and on baseball (1.5 percent).

The fixation on Trump-Russia, says the Media Research Center, is part of CNN’s “crusade to bring down the Trump presidency.”

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“No one is arguing that this revelation should not be covered, but when you spend 93 percent of your time talking about it, it shows an obsession, not an objective news judgment,” the report’s authors wrote, noting that the same liberal media spent little to no airtime covering the Clintons’ connections to the communist Chinese government during the 1996 presidential campaign and little airtime looking at the Clinton Foundation.

The effect of CNN obsessively covering the Trump-Russia story has been a virtual blackout on all other news.

A breakdown of CNN “New Day” topic coverage on July 12, 2017 (Courtesy: MRC).

The network did not cover, for example, the FBI’s July 7 arrest of an Omaha, Nebraska, man who had threatened to kill U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Neb.), and did not post on its homepage on Thursday afternoon the story of Republican Majority Whip Steve Scalise being transferred out of the ICU.

In fact, CNN has reported very little on the progress of Scalise, the No. 3 Republican in the House of Representatives, as he recovers from his shooting by a left-wing Bernie Sanders supporter during an early morning baseball practice June 14 in Alexandria, Virginia.

“They’re much more eager to cover a 20-minute failed meeting in Trump Tower,” says Tim Graham of the Media Research Center. “That’s what they’re interested in. That’s what they want the news to be about.”

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On Thursday, “New Day” spent a total of 2 hours, 15 minutes, and 46 seconds on the Russia story, and 7 minutes, 45 seconds, on the GOP health care bill. The rest of the airtime, 2 minutes, 20 seconds, was spent on sports.

The program that followed “New Day,” CNN’s “Newsroom,” spent 100 percent of its airtime on the Russia story prior to airing the confirmation hearing for Christopher Wray, Trump’s nominee for FBI director.

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CNN has not altered its course, even since the release of the Project Veritas videos that showed a CNN producer saying the Trump-Russia story is “mostly bullsh** right now” and admitting there is no hard evidence to support the story, and another showing Van Jones, a frequent CNN commentator and a former “green jobs” adviser to President Barack Obama, saying the Trump-Russia story is a “nothing-burger.”

The producer, John Bonifield, said it was CNN President Jeff Zucker himself who was dictating coverage, saying after the network had covered Trump’s pull-out from the Paris climate agreement for a day and a half, he said: “Good job, everybody covering the climate accords, but we’re done with that, let’s get back to Russia.”

“The old saying that goes ‘Give ’em enough rope, and they’ll hang themselves’ has never been more accurate than in the lynching that CNN and other fake news media has inflicted upon itself,” longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone wrote in a column on Thursday. “They bet their whole pot on the Trump-Russia collusion story which after an entire year has come up with zero. So, what now? An apology perhaps? Maybe a mass firing of those ‘news’ announcers who set a new all-time low for truth in reporting? We should be so lucky.”