Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20190712:16:08:00
Redirect. there are a couple of factors at hand here. one is that there was this whole parallel issue with acosta that some in the trump administration had. there were republican lobbyists, some inside the white house who felt that he hadn't been as aggressive as he could be about deregulation, about changing the climate in his role as labor secretary. that was underlying and existed before the epstein problems bubbled up. in a way, i think you don't do a news conference like the one acosta did unless you have to. and it was kind of a let me see if i can turn it around hail mary kind of thing....
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