ABC's morning and evening newscasts, as of Saturday morning, have yet to report on the Friday release of purported excerpts from some of Hillary Clinton's speeches to corporate audiences. The same programs on Friday evening and Saturday morning hyped the vulgar Donald Trump audio from 2005. By contrast, Friday's CBS Evening News mentioned how the website Wikileaks "published...some embarrassing excerpts from her [Clinton's] paid Wall Street speeches." Saturday's Today on NBC and CBS This Morning Saturday also aired full reports on the potentially-problematic revelations for the Democratic nominee," as the latter program put it. [video below]

Friday's CBS Evening News wasted little time before airing two back-to-back segments lasting four minutes and nine seconds on the latest Trump controversy, despite the state of emergency in the Southeast due to Hurricane Matthew. The program didn't mention the Clinton speech excerpts until the end of correspondent Margaret Brennan's report on the Obama administration's condemnation of the Russian government over their suspected hacking of political institutions in the U.S.:

MARGARET BRENNAN: Tonight, Wikileaks published what it claims are 2,000 e-mails from Clinton's campaign chair; and they include some embarrassing excerpts from her paid Wall Street speeches...the Kremlin denied any role in the hack — calling the accusations 'nonsense.'

The following morning, NBC arrived on the Clinton story with a two minute and 13 second report from correspondent Kasie Hunt on Today. Hunt noted that "these documents do give a glimpse of a Hillary Clinton that's different in private than in public. She even went so far as to say as much." She also pointed out that "on the issue of trade...she actually went so far as to say she would call for an open border policy — quote, 'My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open borders' — potentially causing her some trouble."

Despite these details, the NBC journalist soon contended that "there are no major bombshells in these documents, if they are authentic, that really stands up to magnitude of that story about Donald Trump," and underlined that "many Democrats I've talked to in the last 12 hours, privately saying they think this race might already be over."

On CBS This Morning Saturday, correspondent Paula Reid gave a minute and 22 second report on the Wikileaks release. Reid detailed how "the portions released Friday point to why Clinton has refused to make them public. In a speech to Goldman/Blackrock in early 2014, Clinton recalled a middle-class upbringing, but admits she's far removed from that now, 'because the life I've lived and the economic fortunes that my husband and I now enjoy.' A year before, she told the National Multi-Housing Council that 'politics is like sausage being made. It's unsavory. You need both a public and a private position.'"

The transcripts from Kasie Hunt's report on NBC's Today and Paula Reid's report on CBS This Morning Saturday — both of which aired on October 8, 2016: