CNN's Chris Cuomo says the White House only supports free speech when they like what's being said

A day after his colleague Jim Acosta was berated by supporters of President Trump at a rally in Tampa, CNN's Chris Cuomo said the White House only supports free speech when they agree with what's being said.

On Wednesday night, Cuomo played a clip of White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders claiming earlier in the day that the Trump administration supports a free press and condemns "violence against anybody," but also asked that people "report accurately and fairly." She managed to avoid telling people "don't shout at a free press," Cuomo said. "Don't be that ugly, don't be that hostile, don't threaten violence like that, be better than that, that Trump supporters are better than that."

Cuomo said Sanders has justified Trump calling the press "the enemy of the people" and "scum," and "they support all of that as free speech. But they don't support free speech when they don't like it. That's when they disinvite journalists and they shrink away from interviews and they won't put their people out on shows like this." The job of the press is to hold people in power accountable, "give the information to you, and let you make informed decisions," Cuomo said, adding that Trump's behavior has made his own job "more important than ever." Watch the video below. Catherine Garcia

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