Networks halt TV pool coverage of Trump after CNN White House ban – live
by Chris Hippensteel (now) and Tom Ambrose (earlier) from World news | The Guardian on (#78HAR)
NBC, ABC, CBS and Fox News, the fourth other networks that make up the White House TV pool, decided they would cease coverage in solidarity with banned CNN
The three outlets President Trump banned from the White House last Friday have filed their lawsuit against his administration to restore their access.
This ban could not be a more direct assault on the First Amendment nor a more blatant violation of our most fundamental constitutional principles," CNN, MS Now and Politico wrote in a complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
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