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CNN’s Jim Acosta Defends Combative Style to Colbert: Can’t ‘Sit Back and Do Nothing’

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While journalists are ‘not supposed to be the story,’ Acosta said he’s ‘allowed to care about this country just as much as anybody else.’

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CNN’s chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta wore American flag socks on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert Wednesday night. He joked that they are from the “Enemy of the People collection.”

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