The White House is not backing down from its decision to suspend CNN reporter Jim Acosta’s permanent White House press credentials, a move that comes after President Trump ratcheted up his attacks on the media and hurled insults at individual reporters.

White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on Thursday defended the administration’s suspension of Acosta’s credentials following a tense exchange a day earlier when Acosta refused to yield the microphone to a White House intern during a press conference with the president.

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