CNN Suing Donald Trump Over Jim Acosta Ban, Can They Win?
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🗓️ 13 November 2018
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CNN Suing Donald Trump Over Jim Acosta Ban, Can They Win?
Jim Acosta had his press access revoked after years of confrontational and disruptive behavior that has been called out numerous times by mainstream reporters. The final straw was when he got, lightly, physical with a White House intern over a microphone.
The left is calling this an attack on the press while the right is saying its about time Acosta got removed over intentionally trying to make the story about himself.
Trump called Acosta rude and called out CNN over his repeated behavior. In the past year we have seen The Washington post, The Atlantic, and even MSNBC call out Jim Acosta.
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| 0:00.0 | Sienna has announced it is suing Donald Trump and several White House aides over revoking Jim Acosta's |
| 0:05.9 | press fast. And this stems from that famous moment not too long ago, where Jim Acosta refused to |
| 0:10.2 | give up the microphone to the intern who was trying to take it away. Some people say she yanked it from |
| 0:14.0 | them, others say that he tried using his left arm to push her away, and I am of the opinion Jim Acosta |
| 0:19.7 | did try pushing her away with his left arm, and the reason why I believe this is that you can see |
| 0:23.8 | her get pulled off balance, but this video is not about rehashing that debate. This video is about |
| 0:28.4 | the lawsuit and whether or not there is merit to it. Now on a surface level, I personally believe |
| 0:33.5 | Jim Acosta should be removed from these briefings. He should have his press pass revoked, because |
| 0:39.9 | not just this one incident where he stands up and talks for nearly three minutes arguing with |
| 0:44.4 | Trump. It's that over the past couple of years, he has been called out repeatedly, MSNBC called him out. |
| 0:50.8 | Washington Post called him out, the Atlantic called him out. When other journalists are saying what |
| 0:55.6 | he is doing is wrong and it's dangerous. I think it's fair to say Jim Acosta either needs to stop |
| 1:00.8 | or he needs to be removed, but I'm not a lawyer. I don't know if there's merit to this lawsuit, |
| 1:05.4 | so I brought in Will Chamberlain who is a lawyer today. Let's take a look at the breaking news, |
| 1:09.2 | talk with Will and figure out is there actually merit to the suit, and Will Jim Acosta actually |
| 1:13.8 | get his press pass back. But before we get started, let me give a quick shout out to today's sponsor |
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