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CNN’s Jim Acosta Defends Combative Style to Colbert: Can’t ‘Sit Back and Do Nothing’
REAL NEWS
While journalists are ‘not supposed to be the story,’ Acosta said he’s ‘allowed to care about this country just as much as anybody else.’
Matt Wilstein
Senior Editor
Published
Aug. 9 2018
12:35AM EDT
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Matt Wilstein
Senior Editor
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