So after the liberal media berated the Trump administration and blamed them for the shutdown and assigning little to no blame for Democrats refusing to secure the southern border, one of media’s chief instigators suggested that a deal to reopen the government is a distraction from the pre-dawn indictment and arrest of Roger Stone?

Well, it turns out that’s the logic spinning inside the mind of CNN chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta, who knocked rumors of a deal during Friday’s CNN Right Now as “a bright, shiny object....after the stunning news, the indictment of Roger Stone.”

Host Brianna Keilar tossed to Acosta six minutes into her show and Acosta explained that “the President is expected to announce what is referred to as a way forward out of the shutdown, out of the stalemate over the President's demand for a wall for the border of Mexico,” but the particulars wouldn’t be known until the President speaks.

After he read a tweet from White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders formally announcing that Trump would speak in the Rose Garden, Acosta declared that “it seems like the cat is out of the bag” and then went fretted that reopening the government would step on CNN’s favorite story, which is Russia and Russia and Russia and more Russia.

Acosta then reiterated his spin (click “expand”):

If folks are wondering whether or not we might see a bright, shiny object before the end of the day after the stunning news, the indictment of Roger Stone, one of the President's long-time advisers and friends, it appears we have one. The question is whether or not at this hour, Brianna, that — is that bright, shiny object potentially light at the end of the tunnel in terms of this government shutdown? Are we finally going to see an end to the government shutdown? I think a lot of that is going hinge on what the President says, as we've seen so often before....It sounds like there's movement on Capitol Hill, movement at the White House, and I imagine, Brianna, those pictures we saw this morning of the ground stop at — over at La Guardia, all of the chaos that potentially could be unfolding for travelers across the country if the shutdown continues, that has to be weighing heavily on this White House as well, Brianna.

“Really ratcheting up the pressure, right,” Keilar replied.

To see the relevant transcript from January 25's CNN Right Now with Brianna Keilar, click “expand.”