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.
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Role at the time: Co-anchor of Fox News Channel's America Reports, in a post on his own X account
Statement summary
In an X post that quote-posts a post by White House Correspondents' Association president Jacqui Heinrich reproducing the association's statement, Fox News co-anchor John Roberts wrote that the Obama administration tried to exclude Fox from certain White House access in 2009, that it "lasted about a half a heartbeat", and that he expects this exclusion will too.
“Obama tried to exclude Fox from certain White House access back in 2009. Lasted about a half a heartbeat. I expect this one will too.”
What this label refers to
The case's fixed reference point is President Trump's announcement on September 18, 2026 that CNN, MS NOW and Politico are banned from the White House because of their coverage, as reaffirmed in the Oval Office that afternoon. Roberts predicts the exclusion will be short-lived, drawing on the 2009 Obama-Fox episode, which downplays its durability and significance without endorsing or denouncing it. The closest competing label is condemns, because he shares a statement criticizing the exclusion. That loses because the words that are Roberts's own express no criticism of the act; the criticism is the quoted WHCA text.
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