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It's a group of migrants moving up from Central America towards the border with the US- Thank you for telling me that. I appreciate it. And why did you characterize it as such And- Cuz I consider it an invasion, you and I have a difference of opinion. But do you think that you demonized immigrants- Not at all. In this election, try to keep- No, not at all. I want them to come into the country, but they have to come in legally. They have to come in, Jim, the a process I want it to be a process, and I want people to come in, and we need the people. No- Right, your campaign, your campaign- Wait, wait, wait. You know why we need the people, don't you? Because we have hundreds of companies moving in, we need the people. Right, they're hundreds of miles away, though. They're hundreds and hundreds of miles away. You know what? That's not an invasion- I think you should, honestly Miles away, that's not an invasion. You know what, honestly? I think you should let me run the country, you run CNN. And if you did it well, your ratings would be much better. Let me ask, if may ask one question. Okay, that's enough. Mr. President- That's enough. Ask one other- That's enough. The other folks- That's enough. Pardon me, ma'am, Mr. President- That's enough. Mr. President, I have one other question if I may ask on the Russian investigation, are you concerned That you may have indictments- I'm not concerned about anything with the Russian investigation because it's a hoax. That's enough, put down the mic. Mr. President, are you worried about indictments coming down in this investigation? [ CROSSTALK ] Mr. President? I'll tell you what, CNN should be ashamed of itself having you working for them. You are a rude Terrible person, you shouldn't be working for CNN. Go ahead. I think that's unfair. You're a very rude person, the way you treat Sarah Huckabee is horrible, and the way you treat other people are horrible, you shouldn't treat people that way. Go ahead. In Jim's- Go ahead Peter, go ahead. In Jim's defense, I've traveled with him and watched him, he's a diligent reporter who busts his **** like the rest of us. Well I'm not a big fan of yours either so. I understand. So let me ask you a question if I can- You are the best. Mr. President, you repeatedly over the course- Okay, just sit down, please. When you report fake news, no, when you report fake news which CNN does a lot, you are the enemy of the people, go ahead. Mr. President, over the course Over the course of the last several days of the campaign sir. Sir at the end of the campaign you repeatedly said that Americans need to fear democrats. You said would unleash a wave of violent crime that dangers families everywhere. Why are you- Because they're very weak on crime. Why are you pitting- Excuse me. Why are you- Excuse me. Pitting americans against- Peter. One another sir? Peter, are you trying to be him? No, I'm just asking a question. Let me just tell you. Very simple, because they're very weak on crime. Go ahead, take the ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Full Exchange of President Trump's Clash With CNN's Jim Acosta","description":"Full Exchange of President Trump and CNN's Jim Acosta","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/awijApEQ/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2018-11-08T15:44:36.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/awijApEQ.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/video/awijApEQ/","duration":"PT2M38S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/video/awijApEQ/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}} ```