CNN’s Jim Acosta deserves a raise and holiday, Dan Rather says

Published September 21, 2017 10:25pm ET



Veteran journalist Dan Rather said CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta deserves a pay rise and a vacation for his coverage of the Trump administration.

“CNN should give him a raise and a week off,” Rather, who famously sparred with President Nixon at a press conference while a White House correspondent for CBS during the Watergate scandal, told Politico. “That’s how good he’s been.”

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