The five networks that currently make up the White House TV pool—CNN, ABC, CBS, Fox, and NBC—suspended their pool coverage of the President last week in a display of solidarity against the White House’s decision to bar CNN, along with POLITICO and MS NOW, from the grounds.
After the Trump Administration began granting journalists from CNN, POLITICO, and MS NOW access to the White House grounds again following a judge’s order on Thursday, the network pool decided to make a good faith effort to resume normal operations on Friday, according to a person familiar with the situation. CBS resumed its normal, rotational pool duty, and CNN was granted access to complete a pool assignment at an event at the National Archives, the person familiar with the situation says.
CNN declined to comment.
The person familiar with the situation says that the TV networks are continuing pool coverage this week, but the situation is fluid. Going forward, if the White House won’t grant CNN access when it’s CNN’s turn on pool duty, the TV pool will decide whether to replace CNN that day or not, depending on if the news that day merits it. The person says that there will likely be a high bar to meet to justify replacing CNN with another network on pool duty, if something is very newsworthy that day.
It is rare for a sitting Commander-in-Chief to travel or hold events without the TV pool in attendance. The White House Correspondents’ Association, which acts as a “go-between” for journalists and the White House and helps ensure that journalists have access, has called pool duty “an essential element of the work of White House correspondents because one never knows when the world will need good information about precisely where the president of the United States is and what he is doing at any moment.”
Trump previously told reporters that there weren’t any specific stories that spurred him to bar CNN, POLITICO, and MS NOW from the White House, but that “it’s really just cumulative stories over the last few years, you get sick of it,” adding that “they purposely write negative news.”
“The press’s key role under the Constitution is to act as a watchdog,” she says. “In acting as an independent watchdog, it may be that those stories or things that journalists print feel ‘negative’ or ‘critical.’ That is the press’s constitutional role, and so that is what the press is doing in these situations. For Trump to complain that stories are overly negative is unfair because, in one sense, that’s the press’s job—they’re there to check the three branches of government.”
Where do Trump’s efforts to ban CNN, POLITICO, and MS NOW stand?
On Sept. 21, CNN, POLITICO, and MS NOW sued the Trump Administration, saying in a joint statement that they were doing so “to protect our First Amendment rights and defend the principle that the government does not decide what the press reports or publishes.” Trump said later that morning that “the White House is not instituting an assault on the Free Press, something which I cherish,” but that “it is instituting an assault on the FAKE News.”
Following the order, journalists from the affected news outlets have once again been permitted to access the White House grounds.
Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., a lawyer representing CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO, argued in a statement shared with news outlets following the latest court filing that the White House’s effort to block his clients was “a blatant violation of the First Amendment and due process.”
What does that mean for CNN’s access to perform its White House pool duties?
Whether or not CNN will be allowed access to resume its pool duties going forward is unclear.
The person familiar with the situation tells TIME that it is unclear what will happen with CNN’s next shift on pool duty next week.
“But if a reporter walks into an interview with their headline and narrative already decided, why do they need to be in the room? They can write their garbage from anywhere,” the official said. “Even after outlets were given access to the White House, they declined to cover various events proving this isn’t about access. It’s performative and dishonest.”
Carroll says that the federal judge’s order from last week is limited to ordering the Trump Administration to give back CNN, POLITICO, and MS NOW their press credentials to the White House grounds; the temporary restraining order doesn’t say anything about the press pool.
A federal judge in that case ruled that The Associated Press had to be allowed back into the press pool, but a federal appeals court later issued a temporary ruling that paused that decision, with one of the judges writing that the White House “retains discretion to determine, including on the basis of viewpoint, which journalists will be admitted” to what the judge called “private workspaces” of the President, such as Air Force One and the Oval Office. That case is still ongoing.
Caroll says it was “very heartening” to have seen the TV network pool band together in protest of the White House blocking CNN’s access, adding that “the more that press entities can stand together” in these situations, “the better off the free press generally is and democratic institutions are.”
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