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Maybe the reason for no questions asked during yesterday's briefing.
1 posted on 04/25/2020 6:28:24 AM PDT by McGruff
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Earlier this month, the Justice Department rejected a CNN political analyst’s legal claim he deserved access to President Trump’s coronavirus briefings, warning the White House press room is ultimately federal property and not the legal domain of journalists.

The DOJ’s letter rejecting CNN and Playboy journalist Brian Karem’s demands to access the briefings appeared to serve notice to WHCA that its power to regulate who attends White House press briefings was based only on years of “tradition” and not a legal right.


2 posted on 04/25/2020 6:30:03 AM PDT by McGruff (Freedom is contagious.)
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And I wouldn’t mind if it stayed that way.


3 posted on 04/25/2020 6:31:05 AM PDT by A_perfect_lady (The greatest wealth is to live content with little. -Plato)
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Put your foot down so hard, President Trump, that the floor cracks and the White takes over the press room again.


4 posted on 04/25/2020 6:34:21 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin (Freedom is the freedom to discipline yourself so others don't have to do it for you.)
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The Chicom Noise Network
5 posted on 04/25/2020 6:37:48 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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I ours coordinate White House briefing pecking order as BURN IN HELL CNN!

But that’s just my opinion, of course.


6 posted on 04/25/2020 6:39:01 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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BEAT the Press should be more than a show.


8 posted on 04/25/2020 6:41:25 AM PDT by Drango (1776 = 2020)
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I have no idea why Trump permits the ongoing abuse he receives from the Mainstream Media during these briefings. Barack Obama would have never stood for this. There are plenty of independent media outlets that could make good use of the opportunity to appear in these briefings and would ask challenging questions while still behaving like respectful adults.

Ban CNN from the White House press pool. What’s the worst thing they could do? Is it going to somehow make their coverage of Trump’s administration less favorable?

And for God’s sake defund NPR already. I have no problem with any media outlet broadcasting whatever criticisms of our President they wish to, but I am damn sick and tired of being compelled at gunpoint to pay for it.


9 posted on 04/25/2020 6:41:34 AM PDT by Junk Silver (I think that everything that produces a paycheck is essential. - Nanci Valentino, Wisconsin)
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When Trump calls CNN out for being fake news, he needs to add, you are the reason I tweet, so the people know what I’ve actually said, not what you tell them I’ve said, which is always inaccurate.


13 posted on 04/25/2020 6:48:15 AM PDT by FrdmLvr (They never thought she would lose)
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Boot CNN and give their seat to whoever the libs hate most.

Alex Jones?
OANN?


15 posted on 04/25/2020 6:50:21 AM PDT by Bobalu (We are going to witness such a circus between now and Nov that we should have to buy tickets)
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Create a new "White House Journalist's Association" to control access and appoint actual journalists to the board to run it with the requirement that only journalists who uphold the Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics can attend.

Some provisions of the Code

The board chaired by Candace Owens will evict violators of that standard.

17 posted on 04/25/2020 6:53:13 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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Karem, a frequent Trump critic, objected to being denied access to the briefings by WHCA while the White House allowed Chanel Rion, a reporter for conservative outlet One America News, into the briefing room independently of WHCA approval. The WHCA recently voted to ban Rion from the briefings, however Rion returned to the briefing room as a guest of the White House press secretary.

What, the WHCA exercising censorship? Who are they to say who can come to a White House press briefing?

18 posted on 04/25/2020 6:56:25 AM PDT by Petrosius
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Maybe the reason for no questions asked during yesterday's briefing.

After the fallout from Thursday I would hope that if they are going to continue to have the briefings then they continue with not answering any questions.

22 posted on 04/25/2020 7:04:54 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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Hold the briefings outside in the fresh air and sunlight.


24 posted on 04/25/2020 7:07:24 AM PDT by Mashood
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It brings to mind the guy who wouldn’t shut up and President Trump saying if he didn’t pipe down, he’d leave w/o answering anymore questions and the guy could deal with the rest of them himself...


28 posted on 04/25/2020 8:05:45 AM PDT by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches, or Trump in general, while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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I think it is totally unnecessary to have the reporters there asking questions. Almost all of them are “political gotcha’” questions, nothing really informative for the public. Give the briefing to an EMPTY room!


35 posted on 04/25/2020 11:55:56 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag (Congress is not made up of leaders however they are representatives of their voters.)
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