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'Don't put that guy in front of the cameras again': Fox News host unloads on Stephen Miller after altercation with CNN reporter

The White House adviser got into a lengthy argument with a reporter on Wednesday over the White House's new immigration policy.

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The Fox News commentator Eric Bolling harshly criticized White House adviser Stephen Miller for getting into an altercation with a CNN reporter at Wednesday's press briefing.

"Listen, he's a brilliant guy, he's a great policy adviser," Bolling said on "The Fox News Specialists."

"He is not a communications person," he continued. "Don't put that guy in front of the cameras again."

At the briefing, CNN's Jim Acosta questioned whether the White House's new immigration policy, unveiled earlier Wednesday, was "trying to change what it means to be an immigrant" by favoring those who speak English and have higher levels of education and job skills. In his question, Acosta cited an inscription on the Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free."

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Miller fired back at Acosta in a testy back-and-forth that lasted several minutes.

"I don't want to get off into a whole thing about history here, but the Statue of Liberty is a symbol of liberty and lighting in the world, it's a symbol of American liberty lighting the world," Miller said. "The poem that you're referring to was added later. It's not actually part of the original Statue of Liberty."

Miller also aggressively challenged Acosta when the reporter asked whether the White House policy would restrict immigration to people from English-speaking places such as Great Britain and Australia.

"Jim, I am shocked at your statement that you think that only people from Great Britain and Australia would know English," Miller said. "It reveals your cosmopolitan bias to a shocking degree."

To Bolling, Miller's spat was a distraction from an immigration policy that was "really, really important for the country."

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"The message gets stepped on because everyone is going to play that interchange with Acosta instead of talking about how great this immigration policy is," Bolling said. "They really have to fix their communications department."

Another Fox News host, Tucker Carlson, also went after Acosta, calling him "the drunk guy at the party who won't stop talking."

It wasn't Acosta's first tussle with the White House. In January, during Donald Trump's first press conference as president-elect, Trump cut him off as he attempted to ask a question about Russia, admonishing him as "fake news."

It also wasn't Miller's only controversial outing in front of the cameras. The adviser alarmed experts on constitutional law in February when in defending Trump's travel ban he said, "Our opponents, the media, and the whole world will soon see as we begin to take further actions that the powers of the president to protect our country are very substantial and will not be questioned."

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