Early Friday afternoon, CNN host Wolf Blitzer and rabble-rouser/senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta sought to throw cold water on any questions surrounding the Mueller probe into possible Trump-Russia collusion, denouncing concerns “as a right-wing narrative” promulgated by “conservative media” to influence President Trump.

Following a clip of the President attacking the FBI’s institutional credibility, Blitzer lobbed a softball to Acosta about whether Trump’s “comments help fuel what is seen as a right-wing narrative that the independent investigation right now — Robert Mueller's investigation is biased.”

Acosta began by stating his obvious agreement, pronouncing that Trump’s tweets about the FBI are “an echo of what it being said on conservative media about this Muller investigation.”

“You have a lot of people in conservative media these days attacking the Mueller investigation, pointing to that FBI agent who was reassigned whose texts, I guess, denigrating the president and came to light. The President was obviously seizing on that when he was leaving the White House earlier this morning,” Acosta added.

He continued on with his latest sermonette to the CNN faithful:

But Wolf, it's interesting to note the President was making the comments as he was heading down to a FBI national academy down in Quantico. At that ceremony, he praised federal and local law enforcement officials but it was here at the White House where the president was saying it's a shame what happened to the FBI and that a lot of people are very angry about what's happening at the FBI. It appears the President is essentially echoing what he is hearing in conservative media.

What’s interesting was that the pair seemed to give zero thought to the possibility that this matter should be thoroughly examined in both the interest of transparency and the benefit of the investigation.

One prevailing thought in the media has been if the President has nothing to hide, then he should be more cooperative with the Special Counsel. Using that logic, the same should be expected of the FBI when it comes to snuffing out claims of political bias. Most reasonable people should and do believe that the FBI (and CIA) are among the country's most cherished institutions. Simple questions don't harm that credibility.

The other tidbit is how the media have defended the Mueller probe to the ends of the earth, but did the opposite with the Ken Starr investigation into the Clintons. My colleague Rich Noyes published a fascinating story that showcased the press’s viciousness roughly two decades ago when the subject of a special counsel investigation was a Democratic President. To find that story, go here.

Here’s the relevant transcript from CNN’s Wolf on December 15: