Reporters for CNN, MS NOW and Politico say they had been denied entry to the White Home grounds Saturday a day after President Donald Trump stated the three information organizations had been banned from the situation.
“Media Shops should not be capable of continuously write or report FICTION and LIES after they’re masking the President of the US, the Trump Administration, or the US of America,” Trump stated in a social media submit Friday.
ABC Information noticed a CNN reporter and photographer being turned away from the White Home safety sales space on Saturday.
The CNN photographer informed ABC Information that their passes had been confiscated as he and the reporter exited the sales space. The reporter flashed her now-empty ID card sleeve.
The James Brady Press Briefing Room is seen on the White Home, Sept. 19, 2026, in Washington.
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CNN later reported on air {that a} photographer and reporter had been refused entry Saturday morning, with a reporter saying on CNN that she was informed by a Secret Service agent that her badge had been deactivated.
In a press release, CNN stated that it has “a proper below the U.S. Structure to do our reporting with out hindrance or interference from the federal government and this ban is an unlawful assault on this elementary proper.”
MS NOW launched a press release Saturday that stated a few of its journalists had been barred from coming into the White Home grounds.
“MS NOW intends to take any and all steps essential to defend our First Modification rights and the important position of unbiased journalism in our democracy,” the community stated in a press release. “We stand firmly behind our anchors, our reporters, and our newsroom.”
An MS NOW correspondent reported on air shortly after being denied that one MS NOW producer was capable of enter the grounds.
“I requested, ‘We’re each with the identical community’ and [Secret Service] took a have a look at their laptop — the 2 officers — and so they stated they weren’t certain what was happening, however on the finish of the day they needed to take my badge as a result of it was disabled,” she stated.
Politico’s Editor-in-Chief Jonathan Greenberger put out a press release Saturday that stated a reporter was denied entry to the White Home by Secret Service and her press credentials had been taken away.
“We stand by her and all reporters right here masking the White Home. As we stated yesterday, we are going to vigorously defend our First Modification rights,” he stated in his assertion.
The White Home didn’t instantly remark concerning the reporters’ entry being denied.
President Donald Trump speaks to reporters about healthcare within the Oval Workplace on the White Home, September 18, 2026 in Washington.
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Jacqui Heinrich, the president of the White Home Correspondents Affiliation, additionally criticized the revocation of the reporters’ White Home entry and referred to as for it to be restored.
“The implications prolong past these organizations: a typical used to exclude one information outlet due to its protection might be utilized to any outlet sooner or later,” she stated in a press release.
MS NOW, CNN and Politico had earlier pushed again in opposition to the president’s transfer and vowed to proceed their protection.
The president stated restrictions on different shops would comply with.
At an occasion within the Oval Workplace shortly after his submit Friday, the president informed reporters he helps a free press, however that “you want a good and trustworthy press.”
“It is sick. I imply, there’s one thing fallacious with a rustic that may enable individuals to jot down purposely unfavorable stuff. Now, in the event that they need to write them, that is high-quality. However I haven’t got to allow them to into my, into the individuals’s home,” Trump stated.
In a press release Friday, CNN stated it “stands absolutely behind our White Home crew and their truthful and correct reporting. We’ve a proper below the U.S. Structure to do this reporting with out hindrance or interference from the federal government. Ought to the ban which President Trump threatened go forward, it might be an unlawful assault on that elementary and constitutionally-protected proper.”
Politico stated Friday it “will proceed to pretty report on this White Home and future ones. We’ll vigorously defend our First Modification rights in opposition to any try to limit them.”
It additionally stated that Trump’s declare Friday that the outlet acquired authorities subsidies “are false and have been totally debunked.”
Trump stated he determined to make the announcement on Friday citing “cumulative tales.”
It’s nonetheless unclear what precisely the ban means in sensible phrases.
Trump insisted he isn’t making an attempt to intimidate the press. “No, no, no, no,” he stated, reiterating “I prefer to see trustworthy press.”
The White Home tried to ban then-CNN reporter Jim Acosta throughout Trump’s first time period. CNN sued to revive Acosta’s press credentials and the White Home later dropped its effort.
Earlier on this time period, the Trump White Home banned The Related Press from taking part within the pool that covers the White Home as a result of it refused to conform together with his edict renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. That case stays in litigation.
-ABC Information’ Karen Travers contributed to this report.
