Jake Tapper asks Mike Waltz about CNN pool access
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The White House barred CNN from the Air Force One and event coverage pool. The next day, Jake Tapper is on national television asking US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz to carry a message to President Trump: let CNN back in. Waltz never said he would pass it along. So the network that spent years lecturing everyone is reduced to begging Trump officials on camera for its old perks back. Here is the part people keep missing: CNN does not have some exclusive lock on pointing a camera at Trump. Plenty of other networks can record and stream him, RealAmVoice among them. Hard to watch, honestly #JakeTapper
Transcript (en)
Sir, I just want to note yesterday the White House barred CNN from fulfilling our pool assignment on behalf of the five major television networks. As you know, we all pool coverage and all of our affiliates and subscribers. And I would just ask if you could please convey to President Trump to let CNN back in the pool. It was not OK when President Obama tried to freeze Fox out of the pool back in 2009. And I don't think we want a world where presidents decide who gets to cover them. Well, I hear you, Jake, but I think we need fair and objective and well-sourced reporting. And I could tell you, as having been the victim of a lot of this nonsense, my family members and so many others, we need a free and fair and honest press corps without an agenda that tries to take facts to fit a narrative. And whether that is Biden inability and many issues that he had that was whitewashed and then people came back around with corrections or other issues So that a much longer conversation And President Trump frustrated And by the way there are over what 50 seats in the press room I don think all of them like Washington Post or New York Times, are exactly positive towards this administration. So that's a false narrative that it's about negative reporting. We need fair and objective reporting for the country. And that's President Trump's point. President Trump specifically said that there's something wrong with a country where people are allowed to report things that are purposely negative. That's his language, not mine. Well, I think he's going to what I just said in that there is a negative agenda. There is a negative narrative. And then we're going to get anonymous sources. Heck, I just saw a story where anonymous sources were referring to a now dead senator. So this needs to be fixed, and President Trump is quite frustrated with this media bias across the board. As has every single president that I've ever covered been frustrated with the press. But, Ambassador Wallace, I appreciate your time today. Thank you so much for joining us. Thank you.
