Fox's Shepard Smith Condemns Trump’s “Belittling And Delegitimizing” Of CNN Journalist

Smith: No Journalist “Should Be Subjected To Belittling And Delegitimizing By The President-Elect”

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From the January 11 edition of Fox News' Shepard Smith Reporting:

SHEPARD SMITH (HOST): President-elect Trump today told CNN's Jim Acosta that his organization amounts to fake news. CNN's exclusive reporting on the Russian matter was separate, and distinctly different from the document dump executed by an online news property.

Though we at Fox News cannot confirm CNN's report, it is our observation that its correspondents followed journalistic standards, and that neither they nor any other journalist should be subjected to belittling and delegitimizing by the president-elect of the United States.

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