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CNN demands White House to restore access to Air Force One and Oval Office
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Attorney Ted Boutrous said CNN was barred from "fully performing" it duties as the designated pooler no fewer than four times to date, and was provided no written notice or explanation of their denied access to the White House.
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By Brian Stelter, CNN (CNN) — The White House has been excluding CNN from President Donald Trump’s trips on Air Force One, disrupting a decades-old tradition of pooled TV coverage. Now an attorney for CNN is warning that the network will take additional legal action if the White House continues to p…
CNN is threatening to file another lawsuit against the Trump administration for continuing to deny them access to the Air Force One press pool. “These efforts to retaliate and discriminate against CNN based on the content of its news coverage are mistaken, counterproductive, and unlawful,” Ted Boutr…
CNN is warning that it is prepared to legally challenge the Trump White House’s continued restrictions on its reporters from Air Force One and the Oval Office. A federal judge last week issued a preliminary injunction that prohibits the White House from pulling the hard passes of CNN reporters and o…
CNN has continuously been blocked from flying aboard the president’s plane, which has prevented it from completing its duties for the rotational television pool.
CNN has threatened further legal action if its journalists continue to be denied access to Air Force One. The network has been in a legal battle with Donald Trump’s administration since the president banned it and two other outlets from…
CNN is threatening President Trump's Department of Justice (DOJ) with further legal action if the White House continues blocking the network from performing its duties in pool rotation. In a letter to the DOJ this week, CNN's attorney Ted Boutrous wrote “these efforts to retaliate and discriminate a…
by Rich Mitchell at CDN - An attorney for CNN told the Justice Department the network will go back to court unless the White House stops keeping its crews off Air Force One and out of the Oval Office, setting a Thursday deadline for a written answer.
Already embroiled in a tense legal standoff with the White House, CNN is threatening further action in the courts if its journalists continue to be denied access to Air Force One and the pool of journalists who accompany President Donald Trump when he travels.
CNN warned the Trump administration Monday that it would take additional legal action if the White House continues to block its journalists from Air Force One and the Oval Office. […]
Tough talk from CNN set a deadline for President Donald Trump’s administration — with threats — amid its ongoing ostracism. Since September, when the feud with fake […]
Attorney Ted Boutrous said CNN was barred from "fully performing" it duties as the designated pooler no fewer than four times to date, and was provided no written notice or explanation of their denied access to the White House.
