“The White House has blocked today's print pooler, Politico, from traveling on Air Force One,” Washington Post reporter Katherine Doyle wrote in a White House pool report Monday afternoon.
CBS, the designated representative for the TV pool on Monday, is also sharing its notes with news organizations during the trip. “Neither news organization is replacing Politico,” Josh Gross of CBS News emphasized in an email.
“Many outlets including POLITICO are granted access to attend and cover presidential events unilaterally, but traveling with the President of the United States aboard Air Force One is a privilege not a right,” a White House official tells TIME. The official adds that Trump is “the most accessible President in American history,” and says that he will “continue to grant an unprecedented level of access to the press.”
But that pool coverage of Trump has been complicated by the President’s most recent efforts to punish media organizations whose coverage he objects to.
Within days, the three outlets proceeded to sue the Trump Administration, arguing that the ban violated the First Amendment and their Fifth Amendment right to due process. In solidarity with the impacted outlets, the five broadcast networks that comprise the White House TV pool, which records and shares video footage of the President on a rotating basis, also temporarily suspended their coverage of Trump.
A federal judge on Sept. 24 issued a temporary restraining order against Trump’s ban, in effect for 14 days, and ordered the President to immediately restore the affected outlets’ access, finding that the ban “likely violated” their “constitutional due process rights.” Following that order, journalists from the three outlets were once again allowed to access the White House grounds.
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“The White House’s words and actions leave little doubt that it will immediately reinstitute a complete ban of CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO if allowed the opportunity,” the outlets’ lawyers wrote in a filing last week.
The TV press pool has meanwhile resumed coverage of Trump after journalists from the outlets targeted in the ban were allowed back onto the White House grounds. But people familiar with the situation previously told TIME after CNN was blocked from traveling on Air Force One that decisions about TV pool coverage of the President would be made on a day-by-day basis amid the ongoing uncertainty over the network’s access to perform its pool duties.
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