Megan Basham
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3,249 appearances
138 recordings
4 series
first heard Apr 2023
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Megan Basham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Yeah, Georgia.
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So all of this started on Friday when President Trump announced that uh Politico, CNN, and MS Now would be barred from uh the White House grounds and from the White House press briefing room.
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And the following morning, journalists from those outlets attempted to enter the White House grounds, and uh they were not allowed access, and their uh credentials were disabled.
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Now, Trump has said that there
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There is no single reason that he made this decision.
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Rather, he's pointing to a cumulative pattern of what he characterizes as dishonest and partisan reporting.
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So this was what he said on Friday.
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Now, immediately after this, uh Fox News' Jackie Heinrich, who is the head of the White House Correspondence Association, well, she came out and she condemned this as a ban on the free press and a violation of the First Amendment.
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So the debate really centers on whether the First Amendment um protects not just the freedom of these outlets to cover the news as they see.
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fit, but whether it guarantees them access to that White House press briefing room and uh the White House generally once that access has been granted.
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Yeah, John.
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So those three outlets uh filed that suit jointly on Monday morning, and they are asking for a temporary restraining order to uh restore their access while they're waiting for that case to progress.
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And as I said, Heinrich is backing them.
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She's arguing that the courts have held that while all of these outlets don't have a right necessarily to access the White House, once it's been
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Granted.
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It can't be revoked based on the content of their reporting.
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She says that would be unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination.
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But Vice President J.D.
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Vance pushed back on that Monday.
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He essentially said that these outlets have offered slanted coverage in favor of Democrats.
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