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‘We won't succumb’: Jim Acosta on the ‘lunacy’ of Trump’s takeover of the White House press pool

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Jim Acosta is the former chief White House correspondent for CNN .

He's the author of the important book The Enemy of the People, A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America .

Acosta : "We're not the enemy of the people. We're here to hold their feet to the fire. We have a job to do".

CNN 's Jim Downey says the White House can't get away with this.

Downey: It's this insidious removal of press passes of, of access to, the presidency.

He says the AP is a critical part of the free flow of information in American society.

The president wants the press to function in the way that the tabloids did in New York when he was a real estate magnate in, in Manhattan .

Ali Watts : It's just not who we are. We're we're not the kind of country that turns its back on, on friends, on countries fighting for democratic freedoms.

Watts : Trump 's shameful mediation of Zelensky was much more than an embarrassing moment in American diplomacy, on par with Vladimir Putin's disgraceful embrace of Putin in Helsinki .

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