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Last month, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., issued a temporary restraining order (TRO) that required restoration of press passes for 78 journalists employed by three news outlets that President Donald Trump peremptorily banned from the White House on September 18.
President Donald Trump hurled an insult at CNN ’s senior White House correspondent Kristen Holmes once again this week, this time when she asked about his dwindling popularity among Latino voters.
CNN chairman Mark Thompson made a rare on camera appearance on the network Wednesday, telling anchor Kate Bolduan that the network would continue to fight the Trump Administration's efforts to limit access or ban CNN from the White House press corps.
A judge temporarily blocked the president from barring journalists from White House grounds, but they are being excluded in other ways.
The president has reportedly expressed concerns about the optics of publicly executing a man paralyzed from the waist down.