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Sean Hannity asked former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer about one of his foils in the briefing room, CNN's Jim Acosta.
In a recent tweet, Acosta criticized current Trump spokeswoman Sarah Sanders for making it a third consecutive briefing without calling on Acosta or his network.
Third press briefing in a row that @PressSec did not take a question from CNN. #courage
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) March 5, 2018
Courage isn’t taking “a question from CNN,” Jim. Courage is combat veterans Sgt. Peck and Staff Sgt. Dwyer - the two heroes at the briefing. #itsnotaboutyou https://t.co/kp5rYrtMpt
— Sarah Sanders (@PressSec) March 5, 2018
Wish you had given them time to take our questions too. You just bailed from the briefing. https://t.co/ryTalMI58F
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) March 5, 2018
Acosta then hashtagged the word "courage."
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Spicer ripped Acosta, calling him the "carnival barker in the press room."
He agreed with Sanders' tweet in response to the 46-year-old reporter, which said that "courage" is not the act of taking a question from him, but was instead personified in the wounded veterans that were at the day's briefing.
"[Acosta] is both clueless and classless," Spicer said.
"Because Jim Acosta didn't get his precious question, which I'm sure would've amounted to screaming and yelling at something absurd, he feels as though [Sanders] showed a lack of courage," Spicer said.
He said the two veterans, John Peck and Liam Dwyer, were both wounded in Iraq, sought treatment and reenlisted - later being further wounded in battle.
"That, Mr. Acosta, is courage," Spicer said.
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