00:00Three major U.S. news organizations, CNN, Politico and MSNOW, have sued the Trump administration
00:06after their reporters were barred from the White House.
00:10This comes after President Donald Trump announced a ban on them on Friday,
00:14accusing the outlets of publishing fiction or lies about his administration.
00:21The three outlets say the ban is a violation of their First Amendment rights,
00:26arguing that the government should not decide which news organizations get access based on their reporting.
00:32The dispute has also disrupted the White House TV press poll,
00:36a rotating system in which ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox and NBC share the cost of covering the president
00:43and provide footage to other news organizations.
00:46After CNN was removed from its scheduled poll duty,
00:49the other four networks joined CNN in suspending poll coverage of Trump's events.
00:54The White House has since launched its own 24-hour stream called Trump TV,
01:00featuring presidential remarks and other administration content.
01:03The ban is the latest escalation in Trump's long-running confrontation with American news media,
01:09where he had repeatedly accused some media outlets of unfair or false reporting.
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