Huckabee Sanders Slams CNN Over “Purposefully Misleading the American People” in Heated Press Briefing Exchange

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The White House press briefing on Monday got heated between Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and CNN’s Jim Acosta. The two launched into a back and forth which began when a reporter brought up Dave Wiegel’s tweet about the crowd size at Trump’s rally in Florida. Wiegel apologized and deleted the tweet, Trump called for his firing from the Washington Post. Sanders said about the tweet “ “You cannot say it’s an honest mistake when you’re purposely putting out information you know is false.