Public disputes concerning journalists' and news organizations' access to officials, government spaces and information, including credentials, press pools and official responses to coverage.
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President Trump announced on September 18 that he is excluding CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House over their coverage. The outlets cite constitutional protections and say their reporters were turned away September 19; Trump says they publish false stories.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the Republican Governor of Arkansas, elected in 2022, and served as White House press secretary from 2017 to 2019 in President Trump's first administration.
American legal scholar of the First Amendment and constitutional law; the Thomas M. Siebel Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor emeritus at UCLA School of Law. Founder and coauthor of The Volokh Conspiracy, a legal blog hosted at Reason.
Brit Hume is chief political analyst for Fox News Channel, which he joined in 1996. Before that he spent 23 years at ABC News, including as chief White House correspondent from 1989 through 1996.
Ari Fleischer is a contributor to Fox News Channel and Fox Business Network and was White House press secretary to President George W. Bush. He is president of the communications firms Ari Fleischer Communications and Ari Fleischer Sports Communications.
Jonathan Turley is a law professor at George Washington University Law School, a columnist and a legal analyst who writes frequently on prosecutorial conduct and constitutional law.