CNN warned the Trump administration Monday that it would take additional legal action if the White House continues to block its journalists from Air Force One and the Oval Office.
In a letter to the Department of Justice, CNN outside counsel Ted Boutrous called the White House’s efforts to block CNN “mistaken, counterproductive, and unlawful,” CNN reported Tuesday. He demanded that the department confirm that the White House would “abandon any policy of excluding CNN from the Oval Office and Air Force One” by Thursday evening.
CNN has had issues accessing certain presidential spaces ever since President Donald Trump banned it, Politico and MS NOW from the White House on Sept. 18. The three outlets sued the administration in response and regained some of their access through a preliminary injunction from a federal judge.…