00:00Vice President, so 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?
00:08Well, I take some issue with the premise.
00:10So he's not banning media outlets.
00:12What 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.
00:18We 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.
00:26That's not representative of the American people.
00:28It'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?
00:36Sir, you've talked a lot about free speech over the years.
00:39How is this not an attack on free speech?
00:41Well, 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.
00:53The 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, if you actually look at the objective analysis,
01:02Politico and Breitbart are, Politico is as anti-Trump as Breitbart was anti-Obama or anti-Biden.
01:09Now, why on God's green earth would Donald Trump be expected to give Politico special access
01:14when nobody in the media expected the Biden administration or the Obama administration to give Breitbart special access?
01:22It's about basic fairness.
01:23They can still report.
01:25They still have the access to free speech.
01:27They'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 real news organizations.
01:35They're just not going to get into it.
01:43So, thank you.
02:01You're welcome.
02:03You
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