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Briefing Ban Could Backfire · Check with Chip

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Check with Chip, brought to you by Operation
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  Speaker 1: Blue Dot Red, turning the blue dot red one podcast
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  Speaker 1: at a time. I don't like President Trump banning CNN, MSNOW,
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  Speaker 1: and Politico from the White House briefing process because I
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  Speaker 1: think it makes it harder to turn the blue dot red.
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  Speaker 1: I understand why he did it. Trump is the best
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  Speaker 1: thing that ever happened to these networks. He drives whatever
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  Speaker 1: ratings they have. And their reporters try to make names
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  Speaker 1: for themselves by haranguing him at press conferences. Why should
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  Speaker 1: they get to exploit and profiteer from their access to
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  Speaker 1: the White House? The problem is that the ban allows
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  Speaker 1: critics to say, See? That's what fascist dictators do. They disappear.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone who challenges them and exposes their lies. Only those
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  Speaker 1: who stroke the ego of the tyrant. are allowed to
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  Speaker 1: participate in the public conversation. Another problem is that it
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  Speaker 1: allows for ongoing political theater by the leftist news outlets,
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  Speaker 1: charging into court to fight for the people's right to
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  Speaker 1: get the truth, and so on and so forth. Trump
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  Speaker 1: is more accessible, candid, and verbose than any president ever,
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  Speaker 1: often to his detriment. He ought to let the annoyers participate.
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  Speaker 1: but limit their questions and his or the press secretary's answers.
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  Speaker 1: And no follow-ups. Need to get to the next person
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  Speaker 1: and fairness to all involved. If somebody keeps yammering and
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  Speaker 1: tries to hold the press conference hostage, then have that
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  Speaker 1: person removed by security. Maybe Trump just wants to jerk
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  Speaker 1: them around for a week. I hope it doesn't become
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  Speaker 1: a distraction in the run-up to the election. There is
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  Speaker 1: so much good news on which Trump should focus. I
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  Speaker 1: hope that's where he invests his energy and political capital
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  Speaker 1: in the coming weeks. That's Check with Chip. I'm Chip Maxwell.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for listening.