00:00So CNN, MSNOW, and Politico are now suing over the ban.
00:03Do you think it's appropriate for the president to be banning media outlets just because he doesn't like what they
00:07report?
00:07Well, I take some issue with the premise.
00:09So he's not banning media outlets.
00:11What he's doing is saying, we're not going to give you special access to the White House if you engage
00:16in what is effectively propaganda.
00:17We have to remember, those three outlets account, about 92% of the stories that they have on the president
00:23of the United States, on the administration, are negative.
00:25That's not representative of the American people.
00:27It's not representative of public opinion.
00:30So if you're going to engage in what is effectively far-left propaganda, why would a Republican White House give
00:35you special access?
00:36You've talked a lot about free speech over the years.
00:38How is this not an attack on free speech?
00:40Well, they can still report on the Trump White House.
00:42They can still get the public reports.
00:44They can still, of course, talk to people in the administration and outside the administration.
00:48What the president has said is, we're not going to give you special access inside the White House.
00:52The way that I think about it is, if you go back to the Biden administration or the Obama administration,
00:56compare, let's say, Politico to Breitbart.
00:59If you actually look at the objective analysis, Politico is as anti-Trump as Breitbart was anti-Obama or anti
01:08-Biden.
01:09Now, why on God's green earth would Donald Trump be expected to give Politico special access when nobody in the
01:15media expected the Biden administration or the Obama administration to give Breitbart special access?
01:21It's about basic fairness.
01:23They could still report.
01:24They still have the access to free speech.
01:26They're just not going to get an office in the White House anymore.
01:29And I think it's totally appropriate, unless, of course, they start to behave like drill news organizations.
