Melissa Clark
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first heard Sep 2026
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Our supervising producer is Sidney B.
I'm Melissa Clark, ABC News Daily will be back again on Monday.
Donald Trump's decade-long war with the press has a new front.
Three American media outlets are suing after being banned from the White House, which has led to a broader media boycott.
The US president isn't backing down, launching his own channel, Trump TV, a 24-7 stream on YouTube.
All of this unfolding as Donald Trump defends the war against Iran at the UN General Assembly, bringing his two battles crashing together on the world stage.
Today, Reporters Without Borders, Executive Director for North America, Clayton Wymers, on who will lose most from Trump's war on the press.
I'm Melissa Clark on Gadigaland in Sydney.
This is ABC News Daily.
Clayton, we had a very strange event this week.
The president held a press event at the White House where he was cutting a ribbon for a new helipad, and he had some words to mark this occasion, but we couldn't actually hear what he was saying because of the press blackout.
Can you describe this event to me?
Those newsmax reporters really having a hard time filling in the dead air there.
Clayton, take me back to the lead up to this ban on CNN and Politico and MS now.
Donald Trump had been a attacking media outlets on his social media platforms.
He he does that all the time, but he'd really ramped it up in advance of this moment, hadn't he?
Can we dive into a little more of what has happened during the course of the week?
Because we saw on Saturday that some reporters who tried to get into the White House to do their job or that they couldn't get in the door.
We saw MS Now reporter Akala Gardner describe not being
seen moves by CNN and MS now and Politico talking about
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