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Tuesday September 22 2026 | Trump's Warning To Iran at UN General Assembly | CNN Blocks Trump Coverage · The M&M Experience

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  Speaker 2: President Trump says Iran is no longer the bully of
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  Speaker 2: the Middle East. Big speech today at the United Nations.
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  Speaker 2: or Iran doesn't get to be the bully of the
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  Speaker 2: Middle East anymore. How about that? How about them apples, huh?
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  Speaker 2: What a speech. If you watch CNN, you didn't see it.
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  Speaker 2: Because CNN is throwing a hissy fit. CNN is engaged
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  Speaker 2: in a full-fledged meltdown temper tantrum.
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  Speaker 3: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Well, because earlier in the week, Trump decided to kick CNN, MSNOW,
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  Speaker 2: and Politico out of the press access credentialing that the
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  Speaker 2: White House reporters typically receive. And so for a while
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  Speaker 2: there yesterday, they were all going to boycott Trump. Well,
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  Speaker 2: that didn't last. They're not boycotting him. They all carried
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  Speaker 2: his speech at the UN, except CNN. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: guess you got to give them some credit. A boycott
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  Speaker 2: is a boycott is a boycott, right? However, when Trump
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  Speaker 2: arrived earlier today to the UN, he was surprised at
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  Speaker 2: the gaggle of reporters who were there to cover his
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  Speaker 2: arrival and to cover his address before the UN General Assembly.
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  Speaker 2: You know why he was surprised? Because one of the
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  Speaker 2: people thrusting a microphone in his face said, was a
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  Speaker 2: reporter from CNN, which led to a classic Donald Trump moment.
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  Speaker 4: I'm surprised that CNN is here covering me. You should
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  Speaker 4: not be here covering me. You said you weren't going
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  Speaker 4: to cover me. You shouldn't be covering me.
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  Speaker 5: But I will tell you, it is an honor to
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  Speaker 5: be at the United Nations, and we're making a lot
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  Speaker 5: of progress.
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  Speaker 4: Our country is doing really, really well. Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think our audio got clipped at the beginning.
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  Speaker 2: Can you play it again, guys, from the beginning so
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  Speaker 2: we can hear the whole clip? Because it's hysterical. We
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  Speaker 2: are out of sync today. Let's start again. Let me
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  Speaker 2: give it a proper cue up. He looks over at CNN,
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  Speaker 2: sees a reporter standing there, and says the following.
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  Speaker 4: I'm surprised that CNN is here covering me. You should
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  Speaker 4: be here. You should not be here covering me. You
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  Speaker 4: said you weren't going to cover me. You shouldn't be
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  Speaker 4: covering me.
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  Speaker 2: But I will.
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  Speaker 5: Tell you, it is an honor to be at the
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  Speaker 5: United Nations, and we're making a lot of progress.
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  Speaker 4: Our country is doing really, really well. Thank you very much.
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  Speaker 2: That is classic Trump. What are you doing here? Are
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  Speaker 2: you going to boycott me or not? A boycott is
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  Speaker 2: a boycott is a boycott. You guys are so stupid,
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  Speaker 2: you don't even know how to boycott me. That's what
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  Speaker 2: he seems to be saying. You know, it seems to
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  Speaker 2: me that if the media gets to pick and choose
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  Speaker 2: what presidential events they're going to get to cover, why
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  Speaker 2: doesn't the White House get to pick and choose who
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  Speaker 2: gets access to the White House? This is one of
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  Speaker 2: the stupidest non-issues. Somebody called my show earlier today and said,
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  Speaker 2: Ben Ferguson, who I like. I like Ben a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Ben's a talk show host. He used to be in Memphis.
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  Speaker 2: I think he's in Dallas now. And he bounces around
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  Speaker 2: and goes to the TV networks that invite him. I've
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  Speaker 2: seen him on CNN on that Abby Phillip panel. Ben
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  Speaker 2: apparently said, oh, this is very bad news. Because if
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  Speaker 2: a Republican president can do it to CNN, what's to
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  Speaker 2: prevent a Democrat president from doing it to us? Well,
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  Speaker 2: they did. Obama did. Biden did. You really do think
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  Speaker 2: that because you want to make sure we get access
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  Speaker 2: to a President Pete Buttigieg press conference that we better not?
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  Speaker 2: Play hardball with CNN or MSNOW or Politico? What in
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  Speaker 2: the world are people thinking on our side? If they
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  Speaker 2: want to boycott, boycott. And they did boycott. Today, apparently,
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  Speaker 2: CNN didn't carry Trump's address before the UN General Assembly.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a pretty big news story, his speech.
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  Speaker 2: We're only in the middle of a war. We've got
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  Speaker 2: gas prices going up. The American people want to understand
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  Speaker 2: why we're at war with Iran, why we're bombing Iran,
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  Speaker 2: why this is happening. Trump laid it out beautifully today,
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  Speaker 2: and a CNN viewer didn't have a chance to find
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  Speaker 2: out why. Okay, so be it. That's their decision. But
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  Speaker 2: you know what? It's the White House's decision as to
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  Speaker 2: who is allowed in or not into the White House.
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  Speaker 2: And I tried all day today to get somebody to
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  Speaker 2: give me a cohesive, a coherent answer as to why
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  Speaker 2: this isn't the prerogative of the White House to do
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  Speaker 2: exactly what they did. The fact of the matter is
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  Speaker 2: they can let anybody in they want to. You're not
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  Speaker 2: guaranteed access to the White House. You're not guaranteed access
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  Speaker 2: to Air Force One. You're not guaranteed access to Camp David.
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  Speaker 2: You're not guaranteed access to Mar-a-Lago. That's the president's decision
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  Speaker 2: and his team. And again, for the life of me,
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  Speaker 2: I want somebody to explain once and for all, Ben
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  Speaker 2: Ferguson or anybody else, why there is a presumed guaranteed
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  Speaker 2: entry to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue by anybody by any media
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  Speaker 2: organization I told the story today on the show about
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  Speaker 2: how I once couldn't get into the White House and
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  Speaker 2: it took an hour or an hour and a half
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  Speaker 2: because my press credential had Mike Gallagher on it which
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  Speaker 2: is my name Mike is short for Michael my driver's
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  Speaker 2: license and my official government ID says Michael Gallagher and
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  Speaker 2: the Secret Service said sorry doesn't match And I said,
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  Speaker 2: you're kidding, right? Mike is short for Michael. Nope. It's
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  Speaker 2: got to be that way on the official form. It's
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  Speaker 2: got to match up. All the names have to match up.
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  Speaker 2: So now I have an official press credential that says
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  Speaker 2: Michael Gallagher on it. By the way, don't ever call
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  Speaker 2: me Michael. I hate Michael. I loathe Michael. Michael makes
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  Speaker 2: me sound so old. And I don't know. Michael is
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  Speaker 2: too formal. I'm a Mike. I'm not a Michael. He's
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  Speaker 2: a Donald, not a Don. He's Donald J. Trump. And
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  Speaker 2: here was his message today at the United Nations about
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  Speaker 2: sending Iran back to hell with no chance of survival.
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  Speaker 3: But I have a big decision to make. Will a
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  Speaker 3: deal be made with Iran? that lets them rebuild and
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  Speaker 3: create a far greater country than it ever was before,
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  Speaker 3: maybe one of the greatest in the Middle East or
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  Speaker 3: even the world? Or do I annihilate the Islamic Republic
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  Speaker 3: and do it quickly, never giving them a chance to
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  Speaker 3: kill and destroy people and countries again? Do I drive
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  Speaker 3: them into hell with no chance of survival and no
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  Speaker 3: hope of future greatness or generations?
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  Speaker 2: But I believe we'll make a deal.
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  Speaker 3: Right after the election, because it doesn't make sense for
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  Speaker 3: them not to. They're waiting to see how I do
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  Speaker 3: in the midterm election. What they don't realize is that
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  Speaker 3: I'm not running. I did that already and won in
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  Speaker 3: a landslide. We won in a giant landslide. And I'll
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  Speaker 3: be here for two and a half years. The Republican
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  Speaker 3: Party is running. And I'll be helping them. But I
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  Speaker 3: am not running. I gave absolutely no credence and will
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  Speaker 3: not give credence to the election when it comes to Iran.
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  Speaker 3: It doesn't even enter my mind. The only thing that
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  Speaker 3: does is that Iran.
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  Speaker 2: Will never have a nuclear weapon. The cowards and traitors.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you. Wow. Really powerful, powerful message today at the U.N.,
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  Speaker 6: It's going to be strange. I've covered the White House
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  Speaker 6: up with. And that's the price we pay for a
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  Speaker 6: free press.
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  Speaker 2: That's insane. And let me tell you why it's insane.
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  Speaker 2: If President Trump banned CNN.
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  Speaker 2: From covering him, if there was some executive order that
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  Speaker 2: took CNN off the air, we should all scream to
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  Speaker 2: the highest mountaintops and demand a reversal of such a
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  Speaker 2: draconian decision. Nobody is suggesting CNN doesn't get free and
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  Speaker 2: unfettered coverage of the president. Nobody. You don't have to
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  Speaker 2: physically have a reporter inside a building in order to
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  Speaker 2: continue your free and unfettered coverage of a presidential administration.
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  Speaker 2: This makes no sense. And I'm saying this, I feel
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  Speaker 2: like the little boy on the side of the road
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  Speaker 2: with the emperor, the naked emperor. The emperor has new clothes,
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  Speaker 2: no clothes on. Do you not understand? That 99% of
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  Speaker 2: the media coverage of anything in America comes from people
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  Speaker 2: who aren't physically on site? This is such a stupid debate.
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  Speaker 2: Does David Sanger of the New York Times believe he
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  Speaker 2: can only write about the Trump White House if he's
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  Speaker 2: sitting in that dingy, miserable little White House press briefing room?
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  Speaker 2: And incidentally, I've been in that room. It's a dump.
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  Speaker 2: It's a dump. It's this cramped, tiny, crappy little room
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  Speaker 2: where all these reporters get together and they ask the
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  Speaker 2: White House press secretary a bunch of questions. Does he
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  Speaker 2: think he can only cover the White House and the
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  Speaker 2: Trump administration and policies emanating from the Trump administration if
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  Speaker 2: he's physically in the building? Of course not. I guarantee
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  Speaker 2: you the chief White House correspondent for the New York
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  Speaker 2: Times does most of his work From his office or
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  Speaker 2: his home or on an airplane or in his car
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  Speaker 2: or wherever he writes. It's a total psyop, as they
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  Speaker 2: call it, as they put it. It's a fake. This
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: is fake news. But, of course, our better elders, our
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: wise statesmen are fretting about what Trump decided to do
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  Speaker 2: And I like Jonathan Turley a lot. He's a law professor.
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: He appeared with Brett Baer last night, and he pointed
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: out the pragmatic consequences of all of this. You know,
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: CNN and MSNOW and Politico have already sued the White
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  Speaker 2: House over Trump's decision. Professor Turley points out they'll probably
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  Speaker 2: prevail with their litigation.
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  Speaker 3: There is.
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  Speaker 8: One of the most influential cases is called Sherrill from
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  Speaker 8: 1977 in the D.C.
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  Speaker 2: Circuit.
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  Speaker 8: And they emphasize that you cannot engage in viewpoint discrimination,
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  Speaker 8: that once you allow media in, you can't deny that
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  Speaker 8: access arbitrarily. The White House seems to be ready to
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  Speaker 8: challenge Sheryl, which would require them to go all the
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  Speaker 8: way to the Supreme Court. That's a considerable risk. This
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  Speaker 8: is a president that gained a lot of ground for
• 23:02
  Speaker 8: his successor presidents in cases like Trump v. Slaughter. It
• 23:06
  Speaker 8: was a huge win for presidential power. He could be
• 23:09
  Speaker 8: giving back some territory with this one. These courts have emphasized,
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  Speaker 8: even the ones that favored the White House, It can't
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  Speaker 8: be done arbitrarily. You can't engage in viewpoint discrimination. Here,
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  Speaker 8: that seems to be the case in spades. You have
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  Speaker 8: the president saying, I don't like this coverage. Now, he
• 23:30
  Speaker 8: calls it fake news. But presidents have never been entirely
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  Speaker 8: right with the media. George Washington referred to the media
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  Speaker 8: as those infamous scribblers. Thomas Jefferson said you can't believe
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  Speaker 8: anything if it's in a newspaper. So this is not
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  Speaker 8: the first aggrieved president. But this runs against the grain
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  Speaker 8: of our traditions, our values, and frankly, the First Amendment.
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  Speaker 8: He may be creating new law here, but it may
• 23:57
  Speaker 8: not be the law he wants to create.
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  Speaker 2: You know a tradition and a value that I wish
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  Speaker 2: the American media engaged in? A tradition and value of fairness.
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: Have you ever seen the studies they've conducted on the
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: mainstream legacy media and their coverage of this president? 85, 90, 93%
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  Speaker 2: negative coverage. Do you honestly think CNN ever gives Trump
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: or this administration a fair shake? Are you kidding me?
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: They do not. And while Professor Turley is waxing eloquently
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: about mores and standards and traditions and history how about
• 24:43
  Speaker 2: a media a press that's fair how fair is it
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: that cnn made a decision to black out the president's
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: speech today at the united nations again don't get me
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: wrong it's their network they can cover what they want
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: to cover But if they are responsible journalists, they would say,
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  Speaker 2: we can't stand this guy, but he is giving a
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: speech about the war in Iran, AI, the midterm election.
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  Speaker 2: He's standing there for a half hour. We're going to
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: take a half hour of our airtime, and we're going
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: to begrudgingly let our viewers watch his speech and let
• 25:29
  Speaker 2: the viewer decide. That's not what CNN wants to do.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: The bosses at CNN are going to decide for their audience.
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: And if you're not offended by that, if you're not
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: insulted by that, you must not have a pulse because
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: it is insulting and it is offensive. It's incredibly offensive.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: I want to play for you, and I want to
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: give you an example of a member of the Trump
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: administration willing to go right into the lion's den when
• 26:02
  Speaker 2: Ambassador Mike Waltz sat down with Caitlin Collins last night.
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: He knew that she was going to come at him
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: over this media ban. His responses were perfect. He was calm, cool,
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  Speaker 2: and collected. I mean, look, she was too to some extent,
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: but I want to play the whole clip for you.
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  Speaker 2: I want you to see all of it. And listen
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  Speaker 2: to what it's like when a member of the administration
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: is confronted by a member of the loyal opposition, namely
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: Caitlin Collins from CNN. Before we do that, let's talk
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  Speaker 2: Bless Ambassador Mike Waltz. Here he is with Caitlin Collins
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  Speaker 2: yesterday on CNN. And I want to play this, almost
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  Speaker 2: this whole exchange, so you can see what it's like
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: for a Trump official to walk into the lion's den.
• 30:01
  Speaker 9: Obviously, the president is meeting with a lot of world
• 30:03
  Speaker 9: leaders tomorrow. How do you think those world leaders see
• 30:06
  Speaker 9: the president's ban of three outlets that are covering him
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  Speaker 9: because he doesn't like their coverage?
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  Speaker 7: Oh, I think when they actually unpack American jurisprudence, Supreme
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  Speaker 7: Court precedent in multiple cases in the 60s, 70s, and
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: as recently as a few years ago, absolutely. We have
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  Speaker 7: a First Amendment, your right to publish, your right for
• 30:32
  Speaker 7: free speech, but what you don't have an inherent right
• 30:34
  Speaker 7: to is to have access to any government institution that
• 30:36
  Speaker 7: you want. In particular, Caitlin, like the The corrections that
• 30:43
  Speaker 7: go on, the false reporting, the anonymous sources are a
• 30:47
  Speaker 7: real disservice, I think, to the American people.
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  Speaker 9: But how does that, I mean, what's the message to
• 30:52
  Speaker 9: world leaders if he's banning coverage because he doesn't like
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  Speaker 9: what the reporters are reporting?
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  Speaker 7: I think the message to world leaders is we need
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  Speaker 7: an open, free, and fair, and objective government. press corps
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  Speaker 7: and that's not what we're seeing right.
• 31:03
  Speaker 9: Now how do we have an open and free and
• 31:05
  Speaker 9: fair press corps if he's saying well this outlet i
• 31:07
  Speaker 9: don't like so they can't come into the oval office
• 31:09
  Speaker 9: but other outlets can you just.
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  Speaker 7: Ignored what i just said you don't have an inherent
• 31:13
  Speaker 7: right to any government facility that you want whether it's
• 31:16
  Speaker 7: langley or the white house and that has been determined
• 31:19
  Speaker 7: by multiple supreme court cases the 60s 70s as recently
• 31:22
  Speaker 7: as a few years that's an important distinction.
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  Speaker 9: I remember you said that to Dana Bash on Sunday.
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  Speaker 9: That case found that.
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  Speaker 1: I just quoted one case.
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  Speaker 7: I mean, there's been several.
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  Speaker 9: The case you're referencing found that reporters don't have carte
• 31:34
  Speaker 9: blanche access to everything, but you can't just ban outlets
• 31:37
  Speaker 9: based on their viewpoint or their reporting. He's not saying
• 31:39
  Speaker 9: no reporters can come in the Oval Office.
• 31:40
  Speaker 7: He's not saying don't go out and report. We're talking
• 31:43
  Speaker 7: right now. I mean, we're talking right now. I'd hope
• 31:46
  Speaker 7: we talked about the reforms that we're going to do
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  Speaker 7: at the United Nations, an important international institution. But if
• 31:51
  Speaker 7: we want to spend the entire time talking about this, fine.
• 31:55
  Speaker 7: What we haven't talked is this institution that we're actually
• 32:00
  Speaker 7: trying to reform that many people thought he'd walk away from.
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: We haven't talked about the billion dollars of cuts that
• 32:07
  Speaker 7: we've imposed here that the American people are going to
• 32:10
  Speaker 7: benefit from, the 3,000 employees, the U.N. bureaucrats that they're
• 32:14
  Speaker 7: now firing, the 25 percent.
• 32:16
  Speaker 9: Of the peacekeepers.
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  Speaker 7: I'm standing here talking to CNN, and you just referenced
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  Speaker 7: when I was on CNN on Sunday morning. That is
• 32:25
  Speaker 7: very different than you have access to any government institution
• 32:28
  Speaker 7: that you want.
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  Speaker 2: I just think that's so good. That's so important that
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: he's making that distinction, and that's all I'm saying. You
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: can cover the White House all you want, Caitlin. You're
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: interviewing a Trump official. He was on CNN the other day.
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: Trump will be on CNN again. You don't get unfettered
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: access to any institution, any government building you want. That's
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: a wrap for a Tuesday. Thank you very much for
• 32:57
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