CNN’s Acosta: Maybe We Should Go Out Like These Folks Who Chant ‘CNN Sucks’ and Chant ‘We’re Not the Enemy of the People’

‘I’m tired of this’

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ACOSTA: "And, you know, I think maybe we should make some bumper stickers, make some buttons, you know, maybe we should go out on Pennsylvania Avenue like these folks who chant 'CNN sucks' and 'Fake news,' maybe we should go out, all journalists should go out on Pennsylvania Avenue and chant 'We’re not the enemy of the people,' because I’m tired of this. Honestly, Brooke, I’m tired of this. It is not right. It is not fair. It is not just. It is un-American to come out here and call the press the enemy of the people. And Ivanka Trump knows that. I don’t know why her father doesn’t. And I don’t know why this press secretary doesn’t. I mean, she got yelled at at a restaurant in Virginia. I'm sorry about that. I feel badly for her that that happened. That comedian at the Correspondents' Dinner said some unpleasant things about her. I’m sorry about that. She ought to hear some of the things that were said to me the other night at Tampa. She ought to read some of the things that are said about my colleagues on CNN on a regular basis. It would be nice if we all lowered the temperature a little bit, but at the very least, I think we should all be able to agree on one thing, and that is the press is not the enemy of the people." 

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