Jim Acosta on His Clash with Trump: The President Had a ‘Truth Emergency’ Trying To Make Case for Wall
EXCERPT:
ACOSTA: "No, Anderson. It was sort of a truth emergency out there on the Rose Garden, south lawn of the White House, where the President was trying to make this case for a wall once again. You saw him trying to really present his own set of alternative facts. He was going against what the data has shown us for some time now. We have been presenting it over and over again on CNN. He can watch us and see it for himself. That border crossings are on a downward trend, that undocumented immigrants commit crime at lower levels than native-born Americans, and that most illegal drugs coming into this country go through legal ports of entry. Those are all things that — those are all data points that he skews and warps and twists to try to get this point across that he thinks a wall needs to be built on the southern border. And when you press him on that, you saw what happened after the clip that you played, he went after us, called us names again. My experience, Anderson, covering this President is that when he is calling us names, when he's coming after us like that, that’s when he knows the facts are not on his side and his back is up against the wall."
