The Daily Herold: 9/24/26 - Panda Diplomacy, the CNN Press Ban Ruling, and Another Shipwreck Struggle Session
Jon Herold opens with the lighter news of China sending two pandas to the Atlanta Zoo before digging into a federal judge's overnight ruling that Trump's White House press ban on CNN, MSNBC, and Politico was likely unconstitutional, questioning whether a judge should be able to override a president's national security determination at all. He also does a live deep dive into CISA's newly released 2026 Election Infrastructure Security Plan, tracing its private sector advisory structure back to the same voting machine vendors and CrowdStrike ties he's flagged before, and lands on his long…
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