Fox News’s Chris Wallace told an audience at a recent conference that he is “horrified” by CNN’s Jim Acosta’s behavior with President Trump.
“It’s not our job to get in fights with presidents,” the Fox News anchor said Tuesday night of the CNN reporter. “It’s not our job to one-up the president.”
Wallace said he was not impressed with CNN reporter Jim Acosta’s behavior at President Trump’s press conference Tuesday in India. When Trump criticized Acosta’s network for having to apologize because they said certain things that weren’t true Acosta replied, “Mr. President, I think our record on delivering the truth is a lot better than yours sometimes, if you don’t mind me saying.”
Never afraid of a fight Trump retorted, “Your record is so bad you ought to be ashamed of yourself.”
Speaking at a Common Ground Committee event held at Columbia University, Wallace said that White House correspondents of the past, himself included, have never behaved with so much disrespect.
When audience members asked Wallace about the divide between the opinion and news divisions at Fox News, he said, “All I can say is I do what I do, opinion does what it does … Fox [has] always had a firewall between the news side and the opinion side.”
Watch the video as Chris Wallace explains what Acosta and EVERY journalist should understand about the role of the press in politics.
