Fox News’ Jesse Watters floated revoking press passes away from those who behave like “a wild animal,” comments that come after several reporters got in heated exchanges with White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Thursday.
“These people don’t belong there,” Watters said Thursday. “They are jokes. They need to start ripping press passes away. If you’re going to act like a wild animal, you don’t belong there.”
At the White House press briefing Thursday, CNN’s Jim Acosta challenged the Trump administration’s new zero-tolerance policy to prosecute all illegal immigrants and to separate families, after Attorney General Jeff Sessions pointed to passages in the Bible to defend the policy.
[Sarah Sanders loses patience over questions on family separation]
“These children that are being separated from their families at the border. The attorney general said somehow there’s a justification for this in the Bible,” Acosta said. “Where does it say in the Bible that it’s moral to take children away from their mothers?”
“I’m not aware of the attorney general’s comment or what he would be referencing. I can say that it is very biblical to enforce the law. That is repeated many times throughout the Bible,” Sanders said.
Later, Playboy White House correspondent and CNN political analyst Brian Karem also confronted Sanders on the policy.
“You’re a parent, don’t you have any empathy for what these people are going through?” Karem said as Sanders attempted to answer a question from another reporter.
Watters claimed Karem was “an emotional wreck” and “embarrassed himself.”
“He embarrassed himself. He doesn’t belong in the room,” Watters said. “It’s like Acosta. I don’t care if you have opinions like that. Be an analyst. Go debate it on CNN on prime time but don’t pretend to be a nonpartisan correspondent and then melt down like that and embarrass your integrity.”
