CNN and MS NOW barred from White House after ban by Trump

MS NOW, CNN and Politico said their journalists were denied access to the White House grounds on Saturday after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would bar the outlets. CNN called the move “an illegal assault” on the constitutional rights of news organizations to report without hindrance from government and all three outlets pledged to continue covering the Trump White House intensively.

An MS NOW reporter, speaking to the network from a street near the White House, said that she and a photographer had their badges confiscated at the gate when they arrived for work, although a producer for the network was allowed to enter.