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White House attacks CNN reporter after Trump clash, invoking her children

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White House attacks CNN reporter after Trump clash, invoking her children. The president shushed CNN's Kristen Holmes in the Oval Office, and later an official White House account said her children would be "embarrassed" by her. The White House on Monday leveled a sharply personal attack against CNN reporter Kristen Holmes after she asked President Donald Trump a pointed question during a news conference, crossing a barrier rarely breached by politicians to invoke her children.