{"id":853525,"date":"2026-09-19T19:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T19:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/853525\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T19:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T19:00:09","slug":"white-house-bars-cnn-ms-now-and-politico-reporters-after-trump-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/853525\/","title":{"rendered":"White House bars CNN, MS Now and Politico reporters after Trump ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The White House on Saturday denied access to journalists from CNN, MS Now and Politico, following through with US President Donald Trump\u2019s announcement that he would ban them from the building\u2019s grounds.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">All three news outlets separately said their teams\u2019 press passes were \u200cconfiscated on Saturday morning when their journalists went to the White House.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">They have signalled that they may contest the ban on the grounds that it conflicts with the US Constitution\u2019s First Amendment protections for free speech and a free press.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A CNN statement on Saturday called the ban \u201can illegal assault\u201d on its constitutional right to do journalism without interference from the government. In separate statements, MS Now and Politico said they \u2060would \u201cdefend our First Amendment rights\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The White House on Saturday denied access to journalists from CNN, MS Now and Politico, following through with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":853526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,2724,360448,15284,12,15303,360447,18845,45305,115837,3,48469,45211,167728,21286,34666,21,19,22,20,25,24,3123],"class_list":["post-853525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-associated-press","tag-brian-karem","tag-cnn","tag-donald-trump","tag-first-amendment","tag-gulf-of-america","tag-gulf-of-mexico","tag-jim-acosta","tag-ms-now","tag-news","tag-oval-office","tag-playboy","tag-politico","tag-the-new-york-times","tag-the-washington-post","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}