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Trump Banned CNN, MS NOW, and Politico From the White House Today. A Blatant First Amendment Violation, Explained by a 40-Year Trial Lawyer. · Uncensored Objection

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  SPEAKER_00: This afternoon,
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  SPEAKER_00: the President of the United States banned CNN,
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  SPEAKER_00: MSNOW, and Politico from the White House because he doesn't like their coverage.
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  SPEAKER_00: He put it in writing and he said more outlets are next.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look, it's Friday night.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's been a long week.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm tired.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here's the deal.
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  SPEAKER_00: This is super important and it really pisses me off.
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  SPEAKER_00: In my opinion, it should piss you off too.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let me explain.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm Mitch Jackson.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've been a lawyer for 40 years.
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  SPEAKER_00: The First Amendment and freedom of press are important.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're part of the foundation of this country.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here's what you need to know about today's Breaking story.
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  SPEAKER_00: Friday afternoon,
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  SPEAKER_00: September 18th,
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  SPEAKER_00: Trump posted on his social media site that effective immediately,
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  SPEAKER_00: he is banning the three outlets from the White House
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  SPEAKER_00: over what he called their constant reporting of fake news.
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  SPEAKER_00: A short while later,
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  SPEAKER_00: he walked into the Oval Office,
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  SPEAKER_00: took a question and said there was no particular story behind it,
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  SPEAKER_00: just cumulative stories over the last few years.
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  SPEAKER_00: Translation, he got tired of being covered.
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  SPEAKER_00: He got tired of being called out By hardworking,
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  SPEAKER_00: conscientious reporters who were just doing their job.
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  SPEAKER_00: So back to the Post,
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  SPEAKER_00: he wrote that media outlets, quote,
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  SPEAKER_00: shouldn't be able to constantly write or report fiction and lies,
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  SPEAKER_00: end quote, when they cover the president.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's his whole legal theory.
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  SPEAKER_00: A court didn't find that anyone did anything wrong, that nothing was false.
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  SPEAKER_00: He just doesn't like What's being written about him?
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  SPEAKER_00: Now, here's the first of three problems.
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  SPEAKER_00: First, the First Amendment is the part of the Constitution
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  SPEAKER_00: that says government cannot punish you for what you say.
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  SPEAKER_00: Reporters, are you with a notebook?
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  SPEAKER_00: When the White House shuts down a newsroom because of what it printed, that's retaliation.
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  SPEAKER_00: And retaliation for speech is the exact thing the First Amendment was written to stop.
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  SPEAKER_00: A president can argue with a story.
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  SPEAKER_00: He can call a reporter a liar to his or her face,
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  SPEAKER_00: but what he cannot do is use the power of the office to make that reporter go away.
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  SPEAKER_00: Second, and not that it really matters,
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  SPEAKER_00: but what these reporters ask and what these news agencies write and talk
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  SPEAKER_00: about happen to be accurate.
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  SPEAKER_00: They happen to be the objective truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're reporting the facts.
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  SPEAKER_00: And as far as I'm concerned,
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  SPEAKER_00: the only person and the only group of people who are creating fiction and lies on
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  SPEAKER_00: a daily basis is Trump and members of his administration.
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  SPEAKER_00: Full stop.
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  SPEAKER_00: And along those same lines,
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  SPEAKER_00: the third giant problem is that he never said the stories were wrong
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  SPEAKER_00: about anything specific.
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  SPEAKER_00: What he said is that the coverage was bad for him.
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  SPEAKER_00: Bad for me is not a legal standard.
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  SPEAKER_00: If it were,
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  SPEAKER_00: every sheriff and every school board in America could ban the local paper the week
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  SPEAKER_00: before an election.
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  SPEAKER_00: Here's why all this matters and why I'm shooting this to you late on a Friday night.
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  SPEAKER_00: CNN is one of the five networks that share the television pool,
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  SPEAKER_00: the small rotating group that follows the president everywhere he goes so the rest
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  SPEAKER_00: of us can see what he does, what he says, and how he acts.
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  SPEAKER_00: The White House and Trump, they don't get to pick who holds the camera.
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  SPEAKER_00: After all, a press chosen by the man it covers isn't the news.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a casting call.
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  SPEAKER_00: So is this actually legal?
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  SPEAKER_00: Well, in February of 2025,
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  SPEAKER_00: he banned the Associated Press from the Oval Office for refusing to call the Gulf
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  SPEAKER_00: of Mexico the Gulf of America.
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  SPEAKER_00: And if you're paying attention to what's happening in the news,
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  SPEAKER_00: what went down this afternoon seems to be an ongoing and developing pattern.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Associated Press banned over a map.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Pentagon, new press rules last year, pushed newsrooms out of the building.
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  SPEAKER_00: The Treasury, blocking certain journalists from covering the G20 summit.
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  SPEAKER_00: And of course,
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  SPEAKER_00: we've got all the lawsuits that are being brought against the New York Times and
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  SPEAKER_00: the BBC.
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  SPEAKER_00: Look, other than allowing a convicted felon and civilly adjudicated sexual abuser
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  SPEAKER_00: to occupy the Oval Office,
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  SPEAKER_00: nothing,
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  SPEAKER_00: and I mean nothing,
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  SPEAKER_00: is more un-American than suppressing the First Amendment and the free press.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's absolutely incomprehensible to me that the sitting president of
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  SPEAKER_00: the United States of America would think this would be okay.
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  SPEAKER_00: It goes to show that this guy is nothing more than a deranged old man
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  SPEAKER_00: with thin skin who's lost his grip on reality,
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  SPEAKER_00: It doesn't appreciate the beauty of the United States Constitution.
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  SPEAKER_00: Okay, two things you can do right now.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number one,
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  SPEAKER_00: read the outlets,
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  SPEAKER_00: read the news outlets that he banned today and read them with purpose.
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  SPEAKER_00: A ban only works if you stop looking.
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  SPEAKER_00: Number two, ask every candidate.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I mean,
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  SPEAKER_00: reach out to your congressperson and your senator and find out how they feel
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  SPEAKER_00: about what went down this afternoon,
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  SPEAKER_00: about this particular issue, because their answer tells you everything.
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  SPEAKER_00: Three newsrooms got shown the door today because the president did not like what they wrote.
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  SPEAKER_00: But here's the deal.
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  SPEAKER_00: Presidents come and go.
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  SPEAKER_00: The First Amendment is supposed to outlast every one of them,
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  SPEAKER_00: and it only does if we refuse to let a man with a grudge decide who gets
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  SPEAKER_00: to watch him work and hold him accountable for his actions,
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  SPEAKER_00: especially the man sitting in the Oval Office right now.