Sunny Hostin: My Former Colleagues at CNN Are Afraid to Go to Work Because of Trump

‘I don’t recall a time when we heard this kind of attack on freedom of the press on our First Amendment, and I think it started with this president’

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HOSTIN: "Jim Acosta is a friend of mine so let me say, this that was out of character for him, he has apologized for it but let's remember Jim Acosta is the same person that’s been covering Trump in the campaign and had death threats directed at him. He’s also had people chanting in his face, CNN sucks. My good friend Don Lemon has had death threats, blamed a lot at the Trump rallies and sort of that, death threats against a lot of CNN reporters in Atlanta. My former colleagues are afraid to go to work. So I think the tone comes from the top. I don’t recall a time when we heard this kind of attack on freedom of the press on our First Amendment, and I think it started with this president."
BEHAR: "Nixon was good at it too."
MCCAIN: "Sunny, I know you."
HOSTIN: "Yeah."
MCCAIN: "I know you. You’re also a journalist. You wouldn’t do that."
HOSTIN: "No, I wouldn’t."

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