What’s at stake in President Trump’s showdown with the press?
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It's consider this where every day we go deep on one big news story. Today, the battle over a White House press ban has escalated. It started with a truth social post from President Trump Friday afternoon. In it he announced an immediate ban of three news outlets from the White House CNN, Politico, and MS Now, known until recently as MSNBC.
They're fake news.
Speaking to the press later that day, Trump made it clear this was about coverage he didn't like.
It's sick. I I mean There's something wrong with a country that can allow people to write purposely negative series. Now, if they want to write 'em that's fine. But I don't have to let 'em into my Into the people's house.
What sparked President Trump’s decision to ban three news outlets from the White House?
By Saturday morning, the ban had gone into effect and reporters like CNN's Betsy Klein were barred from entering.
So I walk in, I tap my badge, and it beeps a couple of different times. It turns red, blue, and green, and it didn't accept my PIN number.
She delivered that news in a live hit on the sidewalk outside the White House complex. She held up the empty plastic sleeve that used to hold her press pass. She said the Secret Service had confiscated it. This is the latest in a string of attacks on the media during Trump's second term, and it drew a forceful response. On Monday, the five networks that coordinate television coverage of the president agreed to suspend that coverage. Consider this the White House and the press corps are fighting about what access precisely is guaranteed by the First Amendment. We will ask a longtime White House correspondent what's at stake. PR, I'm Scott Petro.
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It's consider this from NPR. You might not have ever heard of the White House TV pool, but you have probably seen it at work. It's a coordinated effort between ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, and Fox News. And its mission is to ensure that there is a TV camera recording every public presidential event at any hour of day or night, whether the president is in Washington or halfway around the world. NPR and other outlets do the same thing for radio coverage. If you are watching a clip from a Trump press conference on YouTube or Instagram or TikTok, the TV pool probably recorded it. So it is a big deal that as of Monday, that pool coverage has been suspended. To get a sense of what is at stake in this fight, I spoke with Bloomberg's Jeff Mason.
He's a longtime White House correspondent and the former president of the White House Correspondents Association. Let's start with this. What is your response to the White House's argument today that access to the White House is a privilege, not a right?
I would just reflect on the First Amendment and the fact that the founders of the United States put it in the Constitution that there is freedom of the press and freedom of speech. And so the ability of reporters, uh including my colleagues at CNN and MS Now and Politico, to report on what the president does and says and uh wants to do is uh protected. It's protected speech and it's protected in terms of uh the freedom of the press. And so uh that's what the founders envisioned and that's what we do and that's why we show up and uh all of our colleagues should have the ability to do that.
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