Acosta wrestled with a White House intern who tried to take the provided mic to pass it to another journalist
Daily Mail: CNN's Jim Acosta is BANNED from the White House as it suspends his media credentials after heated press conference exchange with the President
* CNN Correspondent Jim Acosta was denied access to the White House on Wednesday night
* Acosta got into heated shouting match with Trump at White House press conference earlier Wednesday
* Trump told him 'that's enough' and female White House intern tried to take the provided mic back from Acosta
* Acosta swatted her arm away and continued to try to grill Trump over his description of the migrant caravan
* GOP Chairwoman blasts 'media grandstanding' and other conservatives react in disgust at Acosta's actions
* CNN stands by Acosta in a statement saying the 'President's ongoing attacks on the press have gone too far'
CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta has been denied access to the White House after getting into a heated shouting match with President Donald Trump and pulling a mic away from a female aide at a press conference.
A Secret Service agent denied Acosta entry to the White House grounds on Wednesday evening, and revoked his 'hard pass', the long-term press pass issued to the White House press corps.
'I’ve just been denied entrance to the WH. Secret Service just informed me I cannot enter the WH grounds for my 8pm hit,' Acosta wrote in a tweet at 7.46pm.
Minutes later, the CNN journalist posted a cell phone video of a Secret Service agent asking him to hand over his press pass and removing it from his lanyard.
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Update: Jim Acosta tells Anderson Cooper 'I think they're trying to shut us down' (Washington Times)
WNU Editor: Swatting the female intern when she tried to take the mic away form him was the straw the broke the "camel's back". You may differ with the occupant of the Office of the Presidency, but you cannot disrespect the Office of the Presidency. CNN Correspondent Jim Acosta did, and his days as a White House reporter are probably now over. It is incidences like this one that just turns off many in the public, and what is worse, only reinforces the view that many in the public have on who and what the media is .... Poll: Most Americas Believe Traditional Media Are Publishing Fake News Reports (March 29, 2017).
