Trump Addresses REVOCATION Of Jim Acosta's Press Pass "Acosta's A Very UNPROFESSIONAL Man"
I think Goss is a very unprofessional man I think he does this with everybody
he gets paid to do that you know he gets paid to person he's a very
unprofessional guy whether it was me or Ronald Reagan or anybody else he would
have done the same thing look I don't think he's a smart person but he's got a
loud voice and he had Colonel David do you mind if I answer the question and as
far as I'm concerned I haven't made that decision but it could be others also
when you're in the White House this is a very sacred place to be this is a very
special place you have to treat the White House with respect you have to
treat the presidency with respect if you've ever seen him dealing with Sarah
Huckabee Sanders it's a disgrace and he does it for you know the reason the same
thing with April Ryan I watch her get up I mean you talk about somebody that's a
loser she doesn't know what the hell she's doing she gets publicity and then
she gets to pay raise or she gets a contract with I think CNN but she's very
nasty and she shouldn't be she shouldn't be you've got to treat the White House
and the Office of the presidency with respect
let's bring in Ari Fleischer former White House press secretary and a Fox
News contributor re good morning to you good morning well
where do we begin you've been listening to the show you've
been following the news this morning it's it's a tough moment right now yeah
there's just so much going on in Washington and the normal turmoil after
a midterm where people try to figure out what comes next
I'm sure you saw the press conference yesterday that the exchange that's
getting a lot of attention we asked Kelly and Conway about that last hour
she was with us and said the following about reporters at the White House and
the job they're trying to do and you as a former White House press secretary
you're very keen on this topic so I'll get you to react after we hear from
Kelly Anne watch there are journalists here at the White
House in the White House press corps who every single day I try to do their job
by getting the story others try to get the president they shall remain nameless
right now and I think that some people like to grandstand and be part of the
story there's no question about that we hear that from other journalists we went
on from there but what is your feeling on this as you watched it well two
things number one there was no physical contact there was anything bothersome
you know it was incidental contact and I think that was a false reason for
pulling his pass but second Jim Acosta has had a history a long history of
being an editorial writer in that room not a fair and neutral questioner tough
questions challenging questions are the job of White House reporters but when he
starts giving his opinion and using that podium as the place to do it it's wrong
and that's why the White House did this and I support that I cannot defend Jim
Acosta when he says to the president the United States in the middle of a news
conference it's not an invasion that's his opinion and if he wants to be a
editorial writer more power to him if he wants to be in a columnist or have a
nighttime TV show to give his opinion more power to him but that is not the
job of White House reporters and I think the White House finally got fed up with
him using his perch at the White House to give personal opinions yeah well I
both have put out their reaction to that CNN the White House put out this
statement revoking access to the White House complex is a reaction out of line
to the purported offense and is it is unacceptable I'm sorry so this is the
White House Correspondents Association journalists may use a range of
approaches to carry out their jobs in the WHCA does not police the tone or
frequency of those questions its members ask of powerful senior government
officials including the president such interactions however uncomfortable they
may appear to be helped to find the strength of our national institutions
let's start with Jim Acosta and the CNN correspondents conduct when President
Trump called on him at that presser you were there in that room with President
Bush was this different than the kinds of questions that Bush got totally
different you know it's one thing for reporters to be challenging to be tough
that's their job they do it all the time it's an
I think for them to use that room or the briefing room to espouse their personal
policy preferences their individual points of view and that's what Jim
Acosta has been doing since Donald Trump became president and I think that more
than anything involved in that physical altercation which really was a nothing
altercation I think that is the rub of the matter that's what he kept on
talking Costas like I'm talking over you now he wouldn't give up the mic but at
the same time wasn't an overreach or a misstep for the White House to suspend
his credentials because that shifted the whole spotlight from whatever Jim Acosta
did or didn't do to whether the White House is being punitive toward the press
look in the Bush White House you know what I would have done was I never tried
to just take advantage of that moment and say well Jim I hope you get your
op-ed published in the newspaper tonight and then on to the next reporter and
deflect their let them ask a question I would deflect and try to use a little
humor and try to make everybody laugh at him for being an obvious editorial
writer instead of a neutral journalist but the Trump White House does
everything differently and I'm not going to defend Jim Acosta it is not the role
of White House reporters to express their opinion he makes other reporters
in the room look bad when he's the one out there expressing his opinion because
that type of thing just amplifies onto everybody the public hates it ask a
question ask a hard question and you know what Howie when he could have done
was simply instead of saying the caravan is not an invasion by the president he
could have said critics as opposed to I'm debating you White House pulled the
credentials from CNN reporter Jim Acosta after this ridiculous display at the
White House on Wednesday Thank You mr. president
challenge you on on one of the statements that you made in the tail end
of the campaign in the midterms there we go that well if you know mr. president
that this Caravan was an invasion as you know as you know as president Caravan
was not an invasion it's a it's a group of migrants moving up from Central
America towards the border with the u.s. thank you for Dan why did you why did
you characterize it as such as I consider Dan
you and I have a difference of opinion do you think that you demonized
immigrants dentists electron now to try want them I want them to come into the
country but they have to come in Legally you know they have to come and jib
through a process I want it to be a process and I want people to come in and
we need the people you're here you're Cleveland wait you know why we need the
paper because we have hundreds of companies moving in we need the people
your campaign had an ad showing migrants climbing over walls and such it for it
but they weren't act they're not going to be doing they weren't actors well no
it's true do you think they were actors they
weren't actors they didn't come from Hollywood these were these were people
this was an actual you know it happened a few days ago and there are hundreds of
miles away though they're hundreds and hundreds of mile away that that's not an
evasion honestly I think you should let me run the country you run CNN and if
you did it well your ratings let me ask mr. president if I may ask should are
you worried that's enough that's one of the other folks that said now pardon me
ma'am mr. president that's enough this
president I had one of these I may ask on on the Russia investigation are you
concerned that that you may have not concerned about anything with you may
not investigation because it's a hoax are you that's enough put down the mic
mr. president are you worried about indictments coming down in this
investigation
mr. president I tell you what CNN should be ashamed of itself having you working
for them you are a rude terrible person you shouldn't be working for CNN joining
me now with reaction conservative filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza a media
reporter for the hill Joe Concha so I just want to start off before we get to
the whole arm push whether it was or whether it wasn't this is the President
of the United States he's the commander-in-chief and he can
characterize something happening at our border however he wants it's an invasion
it's an incursion it's an intrusion he has authority over the border when it
comes to national security remember of Barack Obama in Benghazi he
said that terrorist attack was a protest over a video now that was an extremist
characterization of the truth and the media never chat
him on that at all they let him slide on that so to have a Kosta come up over a
difference of opinion over over the choice of words and try to argue with
the president in such a rooted disrespectful way I thought was uncalled
for and just yanking the press pass is basically just saying listen Jim get on
the time out cool off for a second we'll let you back next week Dinesh what do
you think well first of all the exchange this to me was was was highly
entertaining it reminded me of some of the skirmishes between Reagan and Sam
Donaldson from the old days except Reagan and Sam Donaldson were well grown
ups now the funny thing here I think with Jim Acosta I'd have to say I'm
looking at an overgrown infant I don't know this is medically possible that you
physically grow but emotionally you remain an infant and intellectually
because when you're an emotional infant you want to grab something you don't
want to stop you don't know enough you want another cookie another piece of
candy and you won't take no for an answer
and the other thing is you have a sense of entitlement and arrogance because
right you you don't have she's above everybody else in that room he thinks
it's the Jim Acosta show and he's there to trade barbs with the president of
United States and if he gets called out for it he's the victim he thinks he's
the Rosa Parks of the press corps and he's too dramatic I don't know Jim
Acosta I've never met him he seems like a fine guy personally but his behavior
is totally out of line and Joe taking a press pass away isn't attacking the
First Amendment it's just telling the guy hey behave yourself and conduct
yourself with a little bit more decorum and have a little bit more respect for
the presidency I'm glad you played the entire clip
because all I've seen is the microphone exchange if you watch the clip he tries
to ask Acosta four different questions the way a press conference like this
works if you're White House correspondent you get one question and
maybe a follow-up maybe a second question as you said it's not his show
there are dozens of other reporters in there good ones by the way Jon Carly ABC
Jeff Mason Reuters John Roberts and Fox News Hallie Jackson NBC they're not
trying to ask for question in this case and remember the way Acosta
started that he says I want to challenge you and then he goes into a lecture
around whether it's an invasion or not this is a mid-40s version of the captain
of the debate team right and that's not look at many question the president took
he took 68 questions from 35 reporters and Dinesh Jim Acosta just wants to
monopolize the whole thing I think if you want to go up there and ask a
question fine if you have a follow-up see if you can squeeze it in but to say
that to the commander in chief you know what I'm running the press conference
you don't get to decide when you want to move on to another reporter I'm the one
holding the mic I get to decide when the president of the United States wants to
move on to another reporter who does he think he is
well I think what Trump finds maddening and this explains the sharpness of the
way Trump responded is I think drop recognizes that this same press corps
with Acosta in the lead perhaps was just lapdog sycophantic to Obama right and
they are unremittingly hostile to Trump now they have the right to do that but
to pretend that they're not doing that to pretend that they're just being
objective and quote doing their job when the transparent bias the agenda is so
obvious to anyone watching I think that's what from fighting and the
credibility because they treated both presidents totally differently and then
just lastly real quick I guess the the White House is being accused of altering
or doctoring that video or something like that I don't know what they did or
not all I know is that if you look at it in real-time he has the mic in the one
hand and he pulls his arm down on the woman's arm and you can see it go down
so he's obviously provoking a physical confrontation just I don't even think
it's even the point really the what happened with the microphone this is two
years of Acosta doing this is built to this crescendo and let me go back to
Neal Monroe he was with the Daily Caller and he interrupted President Obama in
2012 I asked your producers to put together a couple of headlines here as
far as the reaction when he interrupted the president once Politico Obama
erupted interrupted by heckling reporter who is Neal Monroe and why is he
interrupting the president the Atlantic and finally this is the best one from me
I see and White House reporter Obama heckler
let him sound passionate that White House reporter wasn't Jim Acosta I don't
hear anybody calling Jim Acosta a heckler now one man's heckler is another
man's hero alright guys I gotta run thank you very much thank you thank you
god bless you and God bless america
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