The news conference was beaming live across the nation. The country’s leader was hunched over a podium before reporters. CNN’s Jim Acosta gripped a microphone and fired off a tough question. “Why do you have Cuban political prisoners?” Acosta asked. “And why don’t you release them?” It was March 2016 in Havana. Then-President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raúl Castro were holding a joint news conference to mark the American president’s historic visit to the island nation. Castro, the longtime, strongman head of an oppressive regime infamous for squashing dissent and muzzling the press, was clearly uncomfortable fielding questions from a journalist. As the New York Times reported at the time, it was a first time a foreign reporter had addressed Cuban leadership since the 1950s. But handlers did not swoop in to grab Acosta’s microphone. The reporter — whose own father was a Cuban exile — was not hauled out of the room. His credentials were not tossed. Instead, the Cuban leader grumbled out a non-answer. “Give me a list of the political prisoners and I will release them immediately,” Castro said. Fast-forward two years, and Acosta had a very different experience Wednesday tangling with presidential power on-air. CNN correspondent Jim Acosta does a stand up before the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) Following the mixed-results of this week’s midterm elections, President Trump held a news conference that quickly descended into a full-contact grudge match against Democrats, failed Republicans candidates and the press. “CNN shoul
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