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Re: Judge orders Trump administration to restore CNN reporter Jim Acosta's White House press pass
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What an AH WH looks like
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Date: November 16, 2018 12:14PM
Video footage of the event does not show Acosta putting his hands on the woman, who had walked up to him and reached across his torso to grab the microphone.
Sanders then released a video, reportedly sourced from right-wing conspiracy site Infowars, which The Washington Post and other outlets said was doctored. White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Monday denied that the video had been altered, but said that it had been "sped up" in the same interview.
Judge Kelly said in court Friday that the claim Acosta "laid hands" on the staffer were "likely untrue." DOJ lawyers had declined to defend that statement in a prior court appearance Wednesday.
Re: Judge orders Trump administration to restore CNN reporter Jim Acosta's White House press pass
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Waves are the order of the day
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Date: November 16, 2018 12:42PM
"This is an important victory for press freedom," said Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. "We need reporters to be able to ask tough questions in these press briefings without having to fear that their access will be revoked as a result. The First Amendment forecloses the White House from selectively revoking access on the basis of a reporter's viewpoint."
A swath of major media organizations, including NBC News, The Washington Post and The New York Times came out in favor of CNN and Acosta. Fox News also came out publicly on CNN's side, to the surprise of some in the media.
That poor intern Wrote:
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> Something tells me there might not be a WH press
> conference for a while.
good, not like he ever has anything important or intelligent to say....