00:00:40.000Okay, so on Friday, President Trump put out a statement on Truth Social in which he said he was essentially banning CNN, MS Now, and Politico from the White House.
00:00:47.000Here's what he said I'm proud to announce that, effective immediately, I'm banning fake news CNN, MS Now, who recently changed their name from MSNBC due to lack of viewership and credibility, and Politico, the recipients of an illegal and ridiculous $8 million subscription in all time record directly from the U.S. government under crooked Joe Biden in order to keep them alive.
00:01:06.000Seems like corruption to me from the White House as a result of their constant reporting fake news.
00:01:11.000Media outlets shouldn't be able to constantly write or report fiction and lies when they're covering the president of the United States, the Trump administration, or the United States of America.
00:01:18.000Other fake news media outlets to follow.
00:01:20.000Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump.
00:01:28.000Well, they're not like going to the CNN headquarters and just pulling the plug or occupying the building over at MS Now or something.
00:01:35.000Here's what they actually did they deactivated the press badges from entry to the White House.
00:01:40.000If you had a press badge from MS Now, they pulled your press badge that included the briefing and workspaces in the lower press offices.
00:01:46.000In the White House, just like a press office in the White House where some of the journalists and pseudo journalists work.
00:01:50.000Outlets were also removed from the presidential press pool.
00:01:53.000Okay, that is where basically there's essentially one stringer who works for all of these outlets and then puts a microphone and a camera aimed at the president.
00:02:02.000And then all of these various outlets share the feed.
00:02:06.000And that's basically what was happening here.
00:02:07.000So let's start at the very beginning here.
00:02:10.000This is not exactly a ban on press, it certainly doesn't violate the Constitution.
00:02:15.000There's no institution called the press that gets special rights in America.
00:02:19.000We all, as American citizens, have the same rights.
00:02:21.000I'm going to read you the First Amendment because people never refer back to the text when they talk about this stuff.
00:02:26.000Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, or of the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
00:02:38.000Okay, so again, Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of the press.
00:02:44.000That means the government can't shut down press outlets, it can't censor press outlets.
00:02:49.000This does not mean that if you label yourself a member of the press, As sort of a vocation, then you get to waltz into the White House and sit down and ask the president questions or the press secretary questions.
00:03:01.000So, in other words, the First Amendment protects acts of journalism just as it protects acts of free speech and acts of free exercise of religion.
00:03:07.000There are institutions that embody those acts.
00:03:09.000So, for example, the government shouldn't shut down churches because it embodies free exercise of religion, and the government should not shut down newspapers because that embodies freedom of the press.
00:03:18.000But there is no special class of individuals who get special protections under the law.
00:03:23.000Like if you wear a journalist badge around, you don't get magical special.
00:03:35.000Now, let's start again at the beginning here.
00:03:37.000Let's talk about the role of the press in America and how the press perceive themselves, because that disconnect between how the press perceive themselves now and how the press really operate is the big disconnect.
00:03:48.000There's a gigantic lie about journalism in America that has prevailed for some decades in the United States.
00:03:53.000That lie is that journalism is the exercise of an objective search for truth and facts.
00:03:58.000Rather than what it really always has been, which is the narrative driven uncovering of some truth and some facts.
00:04:04.000So, our first journalists in the United States were people like James Callender, a political pamphleteer who used to work for Thomas Jefferson, and he worked for the Republicans against the Federalists.
00:05:59.000It took until the early 20th century for journalists to start seeing themselves as a special class with special training and special rights.
00:06:06.000This is how journalists turned from the guys who were wearing kind of battered hats and walking around in 1930s movies.
00:06:13.000Digging up the scoops to the people who are graduates of journalism school.
00:06:17.000So, Joseph Pulitzer in 1912 founds the Columbia School of Journalism to train journalists.
00:06:23.000And then Walter Lippmann, again, a sort of elite journalist and an elite opinion writer in 1920, he pushed forward the idea of objective journalism.
00:06:31.000He argued that journalism was a process and that journalists, quote, ought not to be serving a cause no matter how good.
00:06:37.000Or again, this is where the idea of you have a special group of journalists and they are the objective truth tellers comes from.
00:06:43.000He said, That the journalist, quote, ought not to be serving a cause no matter how good.
00:06:46.000In his professional activity, it is no business of his to care whose ox is gored.
00:06:51.000As the observer of the signs of change, his value to society depends upon the prophetic discrimination with which he selects those signs.
00:06:56.000Again, it's kind of like a godlike figure sitting above all of the facts and determining the objective truth.
00:07:02.000And sounds awesome, okay, but was never reality.
00:07:45.000Was maybe slightly to the right of the Democratic Party, but there was huge diversity inside both parties and huge crossover between the parties.
00:07:53.000And then came the internet, and everybody realized the media weren't objective.
00:08:12.000So, I'm walking around Radio Road, and I see Sam Donaldson.
00:08:14.000Sam Donaldson was a reporter back in the 1980s for ABC News.
00:08:19.000And his job was to basically bother Ronald Reagan.
00:08:22.000He would go into the White House press office or in the press room, and then he would ask badgering questions to Ronald Reagan and his press secretaries.
00:08:30.000And he was considered, again, an objective journalist.
00:08:32.000Well, now, as of 2012, Sam Donaldson had this radio show where he would give his take of the day.
00:08:37.000And his take of the day was reliably of the left.
00:08:40.000So I walk up to Sam Donaldson, a man who, by the way, had eyebrows that I will say, as a man who's an aficionado of thick eyebrows, Sam Donaldson put me to shame.
00:08:48.000Anyway, Sam Donaldson is sitting there.
00:08:51.000And I walk up to him and I say, you know, Mr. Donaldson, I just want to ask you a question.
00:08:55.000You're obviously quite partisan in your viewpoints.
00:08:57.000Did you believe the same things when you were objectively journalism over for ABC News during the 1980s?
00:09:05.000That means that you were sort of fibbing to your viewers because obviously all of your questions were from those angles.
00:09:10.000And he got very grumpy and he said, You think you're better than me?
00:09:14.000And I said, Well, yeah, I mean, I'm honest about my own biases, not lying to the people who actually watch my content.
00:09:22.000But the reality is that all the objective journalismers know that they are pursuing a particular political purpose.
00:09:28.000None of them are doing the Walter Lippmann thing.
00:09:30.000How many journalists do you believe, actually believe that it is no business of theirs to care whose ox is gored, the way Walter Lippmann said?
00:09:38.000Do you think that anyone on CNN, any of these objective journalismers, you think that they really believe that they don't care whose ox is Gord?
00:10:34.000George H.W. Bush and George W. both knew that.
00:10:37.000Meanwhile, Democrats like Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, they knew that overall the legacy media loved them.
00:10:43.000And let's be real, Democratic White Houses have pretended to abide by objective rules while promoting left wing outlets and denying access to right wing outlets for legitimately my entire lifetime.
00:10:53.000So, all that Trump did is actually just do the quiet part out loud.
00:10:57.000As we'll see, we'll talk about the precedent in a second.
00:11:00.000Left wing White Houses have been going after conservative outlets for quite a while and boosting left wing outlets at the same exact time.
00:11:07.000They've just been pretending they're neutral while they do it.
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00:12:22.000Here are Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman talking in June 2026.
00:12:24.000And they have a best selling book all based on access to the White House, saying that the White House is significantly more accessible under Donald Trump than it was under Joe Biden.
00:12:34.000But when he has an Oval Office meeting and says, Do you have any questions?
00:12:39.000You could ask him anything you wanted, correct?
00:13:35.000He's not stopping them from printing or even reporting.
00:13:37.000He just said, You're not coming to the White House.
00:13:39.000So the White House put out a statement Last week, President Donald J. Trump removed CNN, MS Now, and Politico from the White House grounds after years of false reporting.
00:13:46.000The First Amendment protects their right to publish.
00:13:48.000It does not entitle them to a hard pass briefing room seat or place in the press pool.
00:14:40.000Now, President Trump put out another one of his statements on Truth Social As expected, fake news CNN and Politico pay back the $8 million contribution made by the U.S. government to keep them afloat.
00:14:49.000And MSNow, formerly known as MSDNC, have brought suits to gain access to the White House and your president, Meet.
00:14:54.000They have drawn a great judge for them, a man who ruled in favor of Jim Acosta, who now seems to have disappeared from the planet.
00:14:59.000The judge's name is Tim Kelly, and he was sadly appointed by Trump.
00:15:02.000In other words, almost without question and as usual, we'll go for appeal.
00:15:06.000Because fake news people and publications that only write negatively and who violate our national security by writing false and defamatory stories with unknown sources shouldn't be allowed access to the most important office anywhere in the world.
00:15:16.000It is called the Oval Office, and it should be treated with decorum, respect, and dignity, not defiled by third-rate clowns who purposefully distort, twist, and degrade with everything they write or publish.
00:15:24.000Virtually every story about me or anything having to do with me is negative, wrong, and in many cases dangerous for our country.
00:15:29.000No matter how great my achievements, they trivialize and demean.
00:16:34.000When the administration says, by the way, that CNN is quote unquote fake news, it is obviously true that every error at CNN moves in the same direction.
00:16:42.000All outlets make errors and all outlets correct their errors, but every single error at CNN moves in the same direction.
00:16:49.000And some of these have been pretty egregious.
00:16:51.000I mean, go back to the five year old clinging to his father during the ICE arrest.
00:16:59.000Or the report that Hegsteth was going to kill everybody, that he said to kill everybody, which it turns out there was no support for.
00:17:06.000Or MS Now's headline saying that Israel was starving Gaza and the U.S. was complicit.
00:17:10.000And then they put up a photo of a Gazan baby with a genetic disorder, making it look as though the effects of starvation in Gaza, which by the way did not happen, it did not, there was no mass starvation in Gaza.
00:17:25.000Every prediction made about starvation in Gaza was a lie.
00:17:28.000Israel shipped in more food to a wartime population than any population any time in the history of warfare.
00:17:34.000It was reported by the media as a starvation campaign because, again, fake news.
00:17:38.000CNN putting out headlines about Harris was never made Biden's border czar, or we may never know what happened to Jussie Smollett, or Politico suggesting that Elon Musk could put up a Nazi salute.
00:17:51.000So, again, all the errors always move in the same exact direction.
00:17:55.000And so, yes, these are all left wing outlets.
00:17:57.000And yes, the Trump administration is just stripping off the mask because we'll explore in a moment.
00:18:01.000Democrats have done the exact same stuff.
00:18:03.000They just pretend it's neutral when they do it.
00:18:05.000They use all the niceties and they check all the boxes, and President Trump doesn't do niceties and he doesn't do boxes.
00:18:10.000He just says out loud, I don't like these outlets.
00:18:12.000They're fake news, and then just kicks them out.
00:18:15.000But the reality is, again, Democratic White Houses have been doing this for literally decades while pretending that they are, in fact, not doing it.
00:18:21.000Now, the media themselves love this stuff because now they get to play the righteously indignant members of the press.
00:18:29.000We have been insulted, or our journalism has been insulted.
00:18:39.000Your approval ratings with the American public are worse than cancer.
00:18:42.000Truly, like the last approval ratings, the trust ratings for the American media are in the 20s.
00:18:47.000It's worse than certain forms of cancer.
00:18:49.000Okay, so the joint statement from CNN, MS Now, and Politico This morning, we notified the government we are filing a lawsuit today to protect our First Amendment rights.
00:18:58.000Again, there is no First Amendment right to go to the White House press office.
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00:21:14.000Apparently, the central banks have already gotten the memo.
00:21:17.000According to the Wall Street Journal, Brian Boughton, the Washington Bureau chief at Fox News, is joining them.
00:21:22.000Now, again, Fox News is doing this to preserve, I assume, Their own press spot if a Democrat becomes president.
00:21:27.000They said effective today, the TV pool will not be covering events designated as pool coverage of the president.
00:21:32.000This follows the White House's position preventing CNN from assigning its fulfilled duties.
00:21:38.000Now, again, the press pool is not, you know, the press room.
00:21:41.000The press pool is basically a rotation of reporters and videographers and such that cover the president when he travels, and then everybody uses the press pool reports in order to report off of.
00:21:53.000White House television pool members Fox News, ABC News, CBS News, CNN, and NBC News said in a statement.
00:21:58.000The public has a vital interest in receiving accurate, independent information about its government.
00:22:02.000No administration should restrict a news organization because it objects to its reporting.
00:22:06.000Okay, so there are still outlets like Real America's Voice, which is scheduled to travel with the president to New York ahead of the UN General Assembly.
00:22:15.000So it's not as though there will be no coverage.
00:22:18.000And again, all of these self righteous outlets, including ones that have not been banned, by the way, are out there talking about how important they are, grasping their paroles.
00:22:28.000The Trump administration's decision to ban three news organizations from the White House represents a weak attempt to influence coverage of the presidency and is an outrageous attack on press freedom.
00:22:38.000The Atlantic has demonstrated for nearly 170 years we are committed to values of democracy, accountability, and transparency.
00:23:51.000So in 2009, one Barack Obama branded Fox News a quote, research and communications arm of the GOP and barred Fox from Sunday show interviews with anyone in the administration.
00:24:02.000All the agencies were instructed to skip Fox reporters in the pool coverage.
00:24:05.000So, again, what I suggested before do you have a right to ask questions of the administration?
00:24:10.000So, as long as we just let you into the White House press room, you've fulfilled what you needed to do.
00:24:15.000But you can just skip over all Fox News correspondents, never allow them to ask a question, and never allow anyone from your administration to speak with them, and that's totally fine.
00:24:24.000Again, as long as you do the niceties, then everyone will pretend that it's totally fine.
00:24:31.000He labeled Fox correspondent James Rosen a possible co conspirator in a criminal leak.
00:24:35.000And then the administration, according to CBS, secretly monitored his emails and phone calls, according to court documents released three years later.
00:24:43.000In 2011, Barack Obama restricted the Boston Herald because the paper ran a front page Romney op ed, and officials wrote the press pool slots depended on covering Obama fairly.
00:24:54.000Same year, a San Francisco Chronicle reporter recorded protesters interrupting an Obama fundraiser.
00:24:59.000The Obama White House threatened to strip their access and retaliate if the incident was reported on.
00:25:03.000Same year, the media was blocked from an event with the Freedom of Information Day conference, where Obama was privately given an award by transparency advocates, according to Forbes.
00:25:11.000In 2012, the Obama administration Sees two months of phone records from 20 plus AP journalists in a probe about leaked information.
00:25:18.000In 2013, 40 outlets, including the White House Correspondents Association, accused the Obama administration of limiting access to photojournalists while allowing free reign to the White House's photographers.
00:25:29.000Actually, the White House basically attempted to set up its own social media channel where all photos would come via the Obama administration.
00:25:51.000He is just noting out loud what everyone has known for decades.
00:25:55.000The Biden administration was even worse.
00:25:57.000In 2023, Joe Biden restricted more than 440 reporters from White House access after they revised their credentialing process.
00:26:05.000In 2023, Biden banned the New York Post reporters from Joe Biden's Only Daytime event because the Post correctly reported on Hunter Biden and his Hunter Biden laptop.
00:26:17.000In their coverage of China and Ukraine.
00:26:19.000And you'll recall that in April 2023, caught on tape, members of the press had pre submitted their questions to the administration with the pictures of the reporter so that Joe Biden knew precisely what was going to be asked.
00:26:32.000So we're doing like full scale coordination between these supposed objective journalists who don't care whose ox is gored and the Biden White House.
00:27:56.000That's way worse than anything that Trump is doing.
00:27:59.000Trump is not talking about actually shutting down CNN.
00:28:02.000Chris Murphy is actively talking about shutting down outlets he does not like via social media regulation.
00:28:08.000So, government should build a set of rules in which people feel more powerful.
00:28:13.000That's why the minimum wage is so important, and people feel so more connected.
00:28:18.000That's why rebuilding healthy institutions in your town should be a project that government is involved in.
00:28:25.000That's why regulating the internet so that you're spending less time alone on Instagram should be an important government project.
00:28:31.000And if people are feeling more powerful and less lonely, then they are going to be less likely to fall for a bull demagogue like Donald Trump.
00:28:40.000Regulate social media so that you won't fall for Donald Trump.
00:28:45.000The Democrats have always been in favor of this sort of regulation.
00:28:51.000Okay, the combined focus of the media, people at the New York Times, people at CNN, people who actively spent their days about a decade ago going after the Daily Wire for being successful on Facebook, the combined pressure from the White House and from those institutional outlets caused Facebook to literally shut down their entire political algorithm just to prevent criticism of Facebook.
00:29:14.000For dissemination of journalistic information that the left didn't like, they tried to destroy our business by going after the social media companies through a form of soft censorship.
00:29:25.000Okay, that's what they actually tried to do.
00:29:26.000So, am I going to cry for them right now?
00:29:29.000Am I going to cry for CNN and Politico and MSNOW because they don't get to go to the vaunted White House press office?
00:29:42.000Not one single solitary moment, not for a single solitary moment.
00:29:48.000So, again, all Trump is doing here is the quiet part out loud.
00:29:50.000Now, is it going to be upheld in court?
00:29:52.000Probably it'll end up being stopped because the courts have their own bizarre standards.
00:29:55.000So, back in 1977, there was a decision called Sherrill versus Knight from the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.
00:30:01.000And they held that Robert Sherrill, who was a correspondent for the left wing news outlet The Nation, was denied a White House press pass after the Secret Service actually investigated him.
00:30:10.000They said that for security reasons, he was denied the press pass.
00:30:13.000And the DC Circuit held the First Amendment does not give every reporter an absolute right to enter the White House.
00:30:18.000Once the government establishes press facilities and makes them available to journalists, you can't deny access arbitrarily or for less than compelling reasons.
00:30:26.000So, the idea is that if you check the box, if you come up with some neutral criteria for banning CNN, MSNBC, whatever, then you could do it.
00:30:34.000But if you just say, I don't like them, I'm banning them, then you can't do it.
00:30:37.000Now, again, I think that this is a nonsense decision.
00:30:41.000I do, because I think it all amounts to the same thing.
00:30:43.000I promise you, I promise you, if a Democrat wins office in 2028, they will come up with some nonsense way to ban all the allies that are currently sitting in the White House.
00:30:52.000Press room right now, including the Daily Wire.
00:31:02.000When Daily Wire gets banned from the White House press office and when it gets replaced by MS Now, they will claim that that's just neutrality at work.
00:32:12.000This is not the end of democracy or anything like that.
00:32:15.000It is just a recognition of a reality that pre existed Trump.
00:32:18.000Okay, now, by the way, it is likely this will be adjudicated in court, according to our friends and sponsors over at CalSheet at the CalSheet Market, on when the White House will announce an end to its press ban.
00:32:29.000So before October 1st, 2026, people are saying 21% chance.
00:32:40.000The biggest problem for the press is not President Trump.
00:32:43.000Honestly, he's kind of their market solution given the fact that when they cover him, their ratings go up.
00:32:47.000The biggest problem for the press is that they have been lying for literally decades that they are objective journalismers when they all have a narrative to push, which is why they have an approval rating that is currently lower than the president's.
00:32:57.000They're ripping on President Trump and their approval rating is lower than President Trump's.
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