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During Monday’s White House press briefing, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and CNN Senior White House Correspondent Jim Acosta battled over various inaccurate news reports about the White House with Acosta arguing reporters make “honest mistakes and that doesn’t make them fake news” and Sanders maintaining that reporters “purposefully” mislead people “regularly.”
Acosta said, “I would say, Sarah, that journalists make honest mistakes and that doesn’t make them fake news.”
Acosta then tried to pivot to another question, but Sanders interjected, “But when journalists make honest mistakes, they should own up to them. Sometimes, and a lot of times, you don’t. But there’s a difference…between making honest mistakes and purposefully misleading the American people, something that happens regularly.”