You and I both know that compilation right there, which he has admitted to … that would be enough to put anybody out of a job.

Jim Acosta

I think America is changing. I think we are becoming a country that is not as welcoming to immigrants anymore. You have a president Donald Trump just last week who was retweeting anti-Muslim videos. That causes great harm to the Muslim-American community in this country who are law-abiding, faithful, yet patriotic people in this country. And it's sad that they are denigrated in that fashion.

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My job as a reporter, my job as a senior White House correspondent for CNN, is to report the news, but also to highlight and put a microscope on episodes of presidential hypocrisy. And you know, if Donald Trump was going to come after us out on the campaign trail, and as president of the United States through his tweets, I think we are well within our rights to defend ourselves, and also provide that kind of critical coverage to the American people.

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When I cover a major presidential, when I vote for a major presidential, or when I cover a major presidential candidate out on the campaign trail, I make it a policy not to vote on the presidential ballot in that election.

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As you know, Mr. President, the caravan is not an invasion, it's a group of migrants moving up from Central America towards the border with the US --.

I am now giving my hard pass to the The US Secret Service.

If I can ask, on the Russia investigation.

They came across as playmates on a soccer field more than they did international rivals.

It's really caught on. It's really caught on, i said what millions of Americans were thinking.

The president is supposed to stand up for the First Amendment and stand up for the free press - not put us through the meat grinder.

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I receive more threats than I could count; it's almost every week.

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I wish at times that the press had been a bit more in solidarity with one another.

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I don't believe reporters are supposed to be the story. That's how I was trained.

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My parents were blue-collar.

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Google my name and 'Barack Obama.' There were many days I was tough on him. People have short-term memories. They think we're only being tough on Trump. That's just not true.

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My job is to ask tough questions.

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We have to speak truth to power.

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I don't believe that there are two sides to a story when it's a matter of right versus wrong. It just doesn't work that way.

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I want my kids to grow up in a country where, you know, we can still shout questions at the president.

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I think we have reached the point where we can state definitively, that Nazis are bad people.

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It kind of goes without saying. But I will: If you are a Nazi, you aren't a fine person. You're bad.

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