David Folkenflik
speaker
217 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard yesterday
David Folkenflik’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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the construction of the new ballroom in the White House and particularly the bunker underneath, whether or not there's been depletion of munitions and ammunition in the war against Iran, and even in whether or not that midterm convention down in Texas a couple of weeks ago was a dud.
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They're saying on those two grounds, the national security disclosures and spreading falsehoods as they would have it, that the press has sort of violated its own privilege of being there.
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And that's why they're withdrawing it.
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And in letters to those outlets that were sent not beforehand, but yesterday, that is, after the lawsuit was filed, the administration said, look, you guys have the chance to make your case over the next couple of days, but we're going to pull your permissions to be at the White House permanently on Friday if we don't like your appeal.
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What they're doing is retroactively trying to say we are creating a process for you.
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comes, as you say, in a variety of ways, one of which was an amicus brief, which means a friend of the court brief was just filed in support.
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Dozens of major news outlets and public media outlets as well, including NPR, signed on to it to support support.
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CNN, MSNOW, and Politico.
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And you're seeing statements of support just more generally from major news executives, including our own editor-in-chief Thomas Evans, calling it a blatant violation of the First Amendment.
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And there's this other tangible way, which is that...
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Starting on Monday, when CNN was denied its role as the video pool provider, that is, you know, there are these five networks that share the cost and logistics and burden of monitoring what the president does publicly.
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pretty much all of his events.
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CNN was dumped out.
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The other members of that pool, which include Fox News, said, hey, we're not going to step in here and fill that role just because you don't like them.
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A strike against one of us is a strike against the entire pool.
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So that was held back.
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And you saw a lot of news outlets, including NPR, saying it might not run video or still images or audio taken from alternate sources.
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Your faith has to be sifted and sorted and knocked around by doubt.
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look, the...
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Justice Department's legal team has presented a brief that goes back to George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, handpicking sort of favored partisan outlets to talk to, to let them print, you know, inaugural addresses and the like.
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