one or another reporter asks a question. it doesn't really matter. the point is the questions, we're supposed to bring them to the president. the president's response was to personally, personally attack jim acosta. this is the president of the united states, all right. we're not on equal footing. the president is way up here. individual reporters are way down here. we are supposed to ask them questions and, yes, they always think we're rude, impertinent. obama thought it, bush thought it, clinton thought it. it goes on and on and on. so the idea that cnn is putting out a statement like that is great and what i like about it the most is they're not just standing up for accoosta, they' talking about everybody in that room. >> we mentioned it earlier but it bears repeating the president said three times an african-american reporter's question about his use of the word nationalism, his embracing of that concept that questioning