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Comment by Boris on October 30, 2018 at 2:42pm

Acosta asked Sanders if Trump’s claim that the “fake news media” is the “enemy of the people” would include CNN.

“There is great anger in our Country caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of the news. The Fake News Media, the true Enemy of the People, must stop the open & obvious hostility & report the news accurately & fairly,” Trump tweeted Monday.

There is great anger in our Country caused in part by inaccurate, and even fraudulent, reporting of the news. The Fake News Media, the true Enemy of the People, must stop the open & obvious hostility & report the news accurately & fairly. That will do much to put out the flame…

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2018

“Would that include my outlet, which received bombs last week?” he asked.

“I don’t think it’s necessarily specific to a general, broad generalization of a full outlet. At times, I think there’s individuals that the president would be referencing,” Sanders said.

Acosta followed up:

So you’re not going to state for the record, then–I mean, if the president is going to say the fake news media are the ‘enemy of the people’ and if you’re going to stand there and continue to say that there are some journalists, some news outlets in this country that meet that characterization, shouldn’t you have the guts, Sarah, to state, which outlets, which journalists are the enemy of the people?

“I think it’s, irresponsible of a news organization like yours to blame responsibility of a pipe bomb that was not sent by the president–not just blame the president, but blame members of his administration for those heinous acts. I think that is outrageous and I think it’s irresponsible,” Sanders said.

“The bomber — the bomber was caught, Sarah, we didn’t say…” Acosta said, trailing off as Sanders moved on to another reporter.