TRANSCRIPT:
ACOSTA: "I don’t think the problem today is left versus right. It’s truth versus lies. And we cannot give into these lies. And my sense of it right now is that we are heading down a path that we’re not going to be able to come back from. And that’s why we need to have media options that are not controlled by the wealthiest, the most powerful interests of this country. They need to be controlled by the people. They need to be led by the people. You know, one of my favorite options there on the media diet is public broadcasting, PBS and NPR. I’d be remiss if I didn’t give a shout-out to my friends in public broadcasting. Donald Trump on that TRUTH Social post that I put up there, he celebrates defunding PBS and NPR. In Washington, Senator Schiff’s familiar with the station WETA, which is the local PBS station, they only can afford to do a newscast, the 'PBS NewsHour,' five days a week. They had to cancel the weekend edition of the 'PBS NewsHour.' How are people being served in a lot of far-flung places around this country who might identify with Donald Trump and his politics when those kinds of options are being taken away? And so this is a full-frontal assault on every type of media option that we have in this country."
