Reporters for CNN and MS NOW were denied entry to White House grounds on Saturday morning, the networks said, one day after President Donald Trump said he was banning them for their coverage of him.
“Early today, CNN journalists were denied access to the White House grounds,” a CNN spokesperson said in a statement. “This ban is an illegal assault on this fundamental right.”
A spokesperson for MS NOW said its journalists were also denied access.
President Donald Trump said on Friday that he was banning MS NOW, CNN, and Politico from the White House for their reporting on him, a sharp escalation in his antagonism toward the press.
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