Jim Acosta: Future Candidates for President Need to Talk About Free Press; ‘I Would Love to See the Candidates Debating This’

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ACOSTA: “But I will just very quickly, if I may, just put one little thing on my soapbox before I go. And that is, we need the candidates for president running the next time around to be talking about this issue.”

WALLACE: “Yes.”

ACOSTA: “The free press in America is something that we should all be standing up for, and the sanctity of our airwaves. You know, that is something that is worth defending. And it just seems to me it’s — I would love to see the candidates debating this, how we get back to having a really solid information and news system in this country, because it’s being broken to pieces right now.”