White House blocks CNN from protecting Trump’s Tennessee journey

The White House on Friday night time eliminated CNN from becoming a member of President Donald Trump on his journey to Tennessee on Saturday, the place it was purported to cowl the president on behalf of main TV networks.

According to media steering despatched out by the White House on Friday night time, CNN was faraway from the record of shops designated for pool protection of Trump’s journey, through which he’s set to attend a university soccer sport in Knoxville.

The pool is a rotating group of networks that share duties of filming the president each in Washington and on official journeys. Other member networks — Fox News, ABC News, CBS News and NBC News — briefly boycotted taking part within the pool this week after Trump banned CNN from serving as a member.

CNN on Friday reported that it had been scheduled to fly with Trump on Air Force One on Saturday as a part of its pool duties protecting the president’s journey to the sport between the University of Texas and the University of Tennessee. However within the president’s schedule launched Friday night time, CNN was not listed as a member of the pool and no different community was listed as changing it.

The transfer is the most recent growth within the White House’s try to limit entry by CNN and different shops to cowl the White House. The president final week had banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from accessing the White House earlier than a decide quickly blocked that move Thursday and ordered the administration to revive their reporters’ credentials for 14 days.

But whereas the order restored the shops’ entry to the White House, it didn’t explicitly require the administration to revive CNN’s participation within the tv pool.

The White House didn’t instantly return a request for remark.