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So Jim Acosta, thank you so much for being with us today on the new abnormal.

You have been a person who has been willing from the beginning of the administration to stand

up at the press briefings in other contexts and push him a little harder than almost

anybody else.

And I know that a lot of our listeners appreciate that approach.

And I just wanted to get your perspective on what's the difference in feel right now from

the beginning of this whole shenanigan to the moment we're in today in terms of how

he handles the press and how the White House handles.

Well, I think it's a great question.

And I will just take you back to January 11th, 2017 when CNN had the story that the intelligence

community went to Trump and said, listen, the Russians may have compromising information

on you.

You need to know this.

And I tried to ask the president about that, president elect about that during that infamous

news conference where he first called me fake news.

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