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As reporter Brianna Keilar was appearing live from Hillary's speech in Springfield, Illinois — and critiquing her record — the feed was mysteriously lost.
"Largely Hillary Clinton's comments here today, John, were based around the recent violence that we have seen," Keilar reported.
"The police-involved shootings of black men in Minnesota, in Louisiana, and the killing of white police officers by a black gunman in Dallas. That was really what she based her comments on around today.
"And remember Hillary Clinton has some vulnerabilities herself.
"Even as she calls for criminal justice reform because of her support in the 1990s for anti-crime legislation that ultimately helped contribute to this era of mass incarceration that she now speaks out again - ," Keilar was saying.
The screen suddenly went black with only the graphics — referring to Donald Trump as "dangerous" — remaining.
"We just lost Brianna Keilar who was in Springfield, Illinois where Hillary Clinton just spoke," anchor John Berman said, before moving on.
I saw the same thing happen about a week ago when a black woman was offering her perspective about what's happening to black people via the police - poof, the feed dropped entirely for CNN, not just the remote link to the person talking, the entire channel went offline for about 20 seconds with a "CNN Test" screen showing, when the channel came back it was a commercial.