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Just as the liberal broadcast networks did Monday evening, CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta batted away an interview Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky did with TIME magazine, in which he stated he did not approach his conversation with President Trump “from the position of a quid pro quo.” Despite that fact, Acosta treated the development as some kind of unimportant statement Trump was “seizing on.”
“The President will be spending the week meeting with NATO leaders here in London. But he’s also latching onto comments made this week by the leader of Ukraine saying, that those comments really exonerate him in this impeachment process. But that's not really the case,” Acosta scoffed as he began his report.
Continuing on during the video portion of his report, Acosta suggested that the President was “scrambling for a headline that will help him,” so he was now “seizing on comments made by the leader of Ukraine about their infamous July 25th phone call.”
He followed that up with this soundbite of Trump outside the White House.
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