01:00As you all know, for decades, a group of D.C.-based journalists, the White House Correspondents
01:06Association, has long dictated which journalists get to ask questions of the President of the
01:11United States in these most intimate spaces.
01:15Not anymore.
01:17I am proud to announce that we are going to give the power back to the people who read
01:21your papers, who watch your television shows, and who listen to your radio stations.
01:26Moving forward, the White House press pool will be determined by the White House press
01:30team.
01:32Legacy outlets who have participated in the press pool for decades will still be allowed
01:36to join, fear not, but we will also be offering the privilege to well-deserving outlets who
01:42have never been allowed to share in this awesome responsibility.
01:47Just like we added a new media seat in this briefing room, legacy media outlets who have
01:52been here for years will still participate in the pool, but new voices are going to be
01:57welcomed in as well.
01:59As part of these changes, we will continue the rotation amongst the five major television
02:03networks to ensure the President's remarks are heard far and wide around this world.
02:09We will add additional streaming services which reach different audiences than traditional
02:13cable and broadcast.
02:15This is the ever-changing landscape of the media in the United States today.
02:20We will continue to rotate a print pooler who has the great responsibility of quickly
02:24transcribing the President's remarks and disseminating them to the rest of the world.
02:29And we will add outlets to the print pool rotation who have long been denied the privilege
02:34to partake in this experience but are committed to covering this White House beat.
02:39We will continue to rotate a radio pooler and add other radio hosts who have been denied
02:44access, especially local radio hosts who serve as the heartbeat of our country.
02:49And we will add additional outlets and reporters who are well-suited to cover the news of the
02:53day and ask substantive questions of the President of the United States depending on the news
02:59he is making on that given day.
03:19As you all saw yesterday, a federal judge denied the Associated Press' emergency motion
03:34for a temporary restraining order against myself, our Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich,
03:40and our Chief of Staff Susie Wiles for our decision to remove the Associated Press from
03:45the White House press pool for certain and special events.
03:49The judge's ruling upholding our decision to deny the Associated Press such privileged
03:54access reinforces the truth.
03:57And it reiterates what I said from this podium last week when that suit was filed.
04:03Asking the President of the United States questions in limited spaces such as the Oval
04:08Office in Air Force One is a privilege that unfortunately has only been granted to a few.
04:14It is not a legal right for all.
05:20We're going to be now calling those shots.
05:24As you know, we won that lawsuit right there.
05:26See the Gulf of America, which is a beautiful name.
05:28Most people agree.
05:29I don't know.
05:30It's, you know, AP has been terrible.
05:32I think they're radical left.
05:33I think they're third-rate reporters.
05:35Don't miss out.
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