00:00The attorney general is defending a White House decision to bar three major news outlets from its grounds.
00:05Attorney General Todd Blanche told CNN that what he called one-sided news amounts to a national security issue,
00:12justifying the ban on CNN, MSNOW, and Politico.
00:17Supporters on the right frame it as a response to years of coverage they view as biased,
00:21citing findings that most evaluative network coverage of Trump was negative.
00:26Critics warn the restriction may not survive a court challenge on First Amendment grounds.
00:32The dispute over press access is far from settled.
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