Jim Acosta Is Still Asking the Tough Questions
7/13/202651 min
Jim Acosta is pretty sure that when 60 Minutes is in trouble, we're all in trouble. A year and a half after stepping down from a storied career as a White House correspondent and anchor at CNN, the independent journalist begins by addressing his departure from the network: “There was intense pressure for me to be gone,” he tells Nicolle. But there is a freedom he now relishes to speak openly and directly about the dark corners the president has awoken in his second term. Calling the 2020 election “a terrible national mistake,” he tells Nicolle that “now we're on the dark side of the moon and the question becomes, can we get out of this on the other side?” They touch on Trump’s financial schemes, the public framing of Hunter Biden’s struggle with addiction and Acosta’s own experiences covering Trump across his two terms — noting that this is “not the same Donald Trump I covered” in 2016. And as the nation eyes the coming midterms, he notes, "the American people still have the ability to surprise us."
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Jim Acosta· Guest0:59
He has completely sold out his own base, and the crypto thing, I think, is another example of that. I think people totally get – I don't know about you, but when I was at barbecues and parties and stuff around the 4th, people were talking about that. They were like, "Wow, how in the heck did he make all of that money?" And, of course, you know, it's because I'll just go out on a limb and say this, he's kind of a crook.
Nicolle Wallace· Host1:21
[upbeat music] Hi there, everyone. So what would you do? It's a question that every single person