Sept. 25 (UPI) — The White House press pool resumed television coverage Friday, one week after President Donald Trump banned three news organizations from a presence at the building.
The decision came after U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly of the District of Columbia ruled that the outlets — CNN, MS Now and Politico — must be allowed in the White House.
A press pool report Friday indicated that CBS had resumed its place in the rotation of five news outlets that provide TV coverage, Politico reported. In that rotation is also ABC, CNN, Fox News and NBC.
“The plan is to return to covering the president in a normal capacity with a full crew,” the pool report read.
After Trump ordered that CNN, MS Now and Politico reporters wouldn’t be allowed inside the White House to cover the executive branch, the five outlets in the TV pool decided not to provide video coverage at the White House at all.
This meant there wasn’t high-quality audio or video coverage of some major events this week, The Guardian reported.
“Effective today, the TV pool will not be covering events designated as pool coverage of the president,” a pool note from Bryan Boughton, Fox News Washington bureau chief, said Monday.
“This follows the White House’s position preventing CNN from fulfilling its assigned pool duties. There will be no replacement pool put in place. All other pool coverage will continue as normal.”
The three banned news outlets sued the White House for access, and on Thursday, a federal judge ordered the administration to allow the reporters back on the premises.
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