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.
00:20About 92% of the stories that they have on the president of the United States, on the administration, are
00:25negative.
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
00:36you special access?
00:37Sir, 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.
00:43They 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,
00:57compare, 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
01:20to give Breitbart special access?
01:22It's about basic fairness.
01:24They 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.
01:34And gas prices are really high right now, $6, above $6 for a gallon of diesel.
01:40How much longer should Americans be expected to pay these high prices?
01:44Well, look, we're very cognizant of the fact that because the Iranians are terrorizing international shipping,
01:49energy prices are elevated.
01:50We're doing everything that we can to, one side, to tramp down on those prices,
01:54but give the American people some relief in the interim.
01:56One of the things the president has talked about is encouraging some of the states
01:59to give Americans relief from the gas taxes.
02:02I think we all have to accept that so long as the Iranians are trying to terrorize international shipping,
02:07we, of course, are going to try to push back against that.
02:10But that is why gas prices are so high.
02:12Vice President, so CNN, MSNOW, and Politico are now suing over the ban.
02:16Do you think it's appropriate for the president to be banning media outlets
02:19just because he doesn't like what they report?
02:20Well, I take some issue with the premise.
02:22So he's not banning media outlets.
02:24What he's doing is saying, we're not going to give you special access to the White House
02:28if you engage in what is effectively propaganda.
02:30We have to remember, those three outlets account.
02:33About 92 percent of the stories that they have on the president of the United States,
02:36on the administration, are negative.
02:38That's not representative of the American people.
02:40It's not representative of public opinion.
02:42So if you're going to engage in what is effectively far-left propaganda,
02:46why would a Republican White House give you special access?
02:49Sir, you've talked a lot about free speech over the years.
02:51How is this not an attack on free speech?
02:53Well, they can still report on the Trump White House.
02:55They can still get the public reports.
02:57They can still, of course, talk to people in the administration and outside the administration.
03:01What the president has said is,
03:02we're not going to give you special access inside the White House.
03:05The way that I think about it is, if you go back to the Biden administration or the Obama administration,
03:09compare, let's say, Politico to Breitbart.
03:12If you actually look at the objective analysis, Politico and Breitbart are,
03:16Politico is as anti-Trump as Breitbart was anti-Obama or anti-Biden.
03:22Now, why on God's green earth would Donald Trump be expected to give Politico special access
03:27when nobody in the media expected the Biden administration or the Obama administration
03:32to give Breitbart special access.
03:35It's about basic fairness.
03:36They can still report.
03:37They still have the access to free speech.
03:39They're just not going to get an office in the White House anymore.
03:42And I think it's totally appropriate,
03:43unless, of course, they start to behave like real news organizations.
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