WATCH: Jim Acosta Melts Down After GOP Guest Crushes Network's J6 Narrative

An exchange between CNN anchor Jim Acosta and contributor David Urban got spicy on Friday as the two men went back and forth while discussing the January 6, 2021 Capitol breach. Urban challenged the narrative that former President Donald Trump caused the chaos that erupted on that day, while Acosta accused him of attempting to overturn election results. Part of the narrative CNN pushed during the small panel discussion that aired recently on the network was that people died as a result of the riot, to which Urban pushed back, saying, “The only person that died on January 6th was Ashli Babbitt, who was murdered.”

As you likely can imagine, this comment did not sit well with Jim Acosta, who went on to say the whole situation could have been avoided if “Trump had just been a man and accepted the election results.”

David Urban pushes back against Karen Finney’s claim that “people died on J6,” says “The only person that died on January 6th was Ashli Babbitt, who was murdered.” pic.twitter.com/ZxtxKNJyvZ

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Check out more from the transcript of the segment via MSN:

Urban: The only person who died on January 6th was Ashli Babbitt, who was murdered. That’s the only person that died, Karen. Let’s be straight. On January 6th.

Acosta: There were police officers who died–

Urban: I’m not trying to minimize it. I’m not trying to–

Acosta: Police officers were beaten with–

Urban: Jim, Jim, Jim–

Acosta: Let’s not do that one, then–

Urban: Jim! Jim! It’s terrible, right?

Acosta: None of that — David, David, David, none of that would have happened if Donald Trump had just been a man and accepted the election results in 2020.

The other contributor who was part of the segment, Karen Finney, was finally able to bring the blood boiling between the two men down to a fine simmer.

During the latter part of the summer of 2021, the Capitol police officer responsible for the death of Ashli Babbitt broke his silence, claiming that his actions to open fire on the woman “saved countless lives.”

Here’s more from NBC News:

“Once we barricaded the doors, we were essentially trapped where we were,” Byrd said in an exclusive interview with NBC News’ Lester Holt, speaking publicly for the first time since the riot. “There was no way to retreat. No other way to get out. “If they get through that door, they’re into the House chamber and upon the members of Congress,” added Byrd, who gave NBC News permission to use his name after authorities had declined to release it. Byrd’s connection to what was going on outside and inside the building was his police radio. For several minutes, it crackled with a cascade of alarming messages.

There were shouts of officers down. Screams from his colleagues under attack by rioters with chemical agents. A report that an officer’s fingertips were blown off. “It was literally broadcast over the air,” Byrd said. “I said, ‘OK, this is getting serious.’” Soon a horde of demonstrators arrived. Byrd, a 28-year veteran of the Capitol Police, took a defensive posture with his gun drawn as rioters smashed the glass doors. He said he yelled repeatedly for them to get back. But the mob kept pressing forward, and then a lone rioter tried to climb through one of the doors. What happened next was captured on video: Byrd fired one shot, striking Babbitt in the shoulder.

Babbitt was a 35-year-old Air Force veteran and a dedicated supporter of the former president. After being wounded she fell to the ground where she then died from her wounds some time later.