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Steve Scalise, House Majority Leader, told ABC News’s This Week that he does not know why President Donald Trump banned CNN, MSN Now, and Politico from the White House. When asked about the ban, which Trump justified as a response to what he termed “Fake News,” Scalise said he was unaware of the reasoning behind it and noted that he has never seen Trump refuse to take questions from any press outlet during weekly leadership conferences. The article focuses on Scalise’s lack of information regarding the decision and does not provide his opinion on whether the ban is a violation of the First Amendment.
Written locally by qwen2.5:14b on 2026-09-21,
using this article's own text rather than the other coverage of the
same event (that is the story summary below).
Story summary
On September 25, US TV networks resumed coverage of President Donald Trump’s events at the White House after a judge ordered the administration to lift its ban on CNN, MS NOW, and Politico. The ban was imposed last week due to what Trump described as unfavorable press coverage. Despite the reinstatement, tensions remain high; the networks ceased filming White House events in solidarity with banned outlets earlier in the week, resulting in no pool footage during Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit on September 24-25. The court battle continues, and CNN was barred from traveling with Trump to Tennessee for a weekend trip, though reasons were not officially provided by the administration.
Written for “White House Press Access Controversy” on 2026-10-05,
grounded in this article and the 182 other(s) covering the same event.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) pleaded ignorance when asked about President Donald Trump’s banning of three news outlets from the White House.
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Scalise → plead → House
Speaking to ABC News’s This Week, Scalise was asked about Trump’s controversial move to ban CNN, MS Now, and Politico from the White House.
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Scalise → speak → House
In response, he said he was as in the dark as everyone else.
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“Well, I don’t know why he did it.
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he → know → it
I don’t know what the background is,” Scalise said.
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“When we have our press conferences every week, the speaker, myself, our leadership team, we take questions from everybody.
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we → have → everybody
CNN’s there, all of them.
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CNN → ’ → them
But the president takes those questions.
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I’ve never seen him turn a question down from anybody,” he continued, adding that Trump even answers “very hostile questions.”
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Scalise didn’t address whether he believed the ban violated the First Amendment.
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Trump announced the ban on Friday, not elaborating on the choice of the three outlets aside from deriding them as “Fake News.”
“I am proud to announce that, effective immediately, I am banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW (who recently changed their name from MSNBC due to lack of viewership and credibility!), and Politico (The recipients of an illegal and ridiculous $8 Million Dollar subscription, an All Time Record, directly from the United States Government, under Crooked Joe Biden, in order to keep them ‘alive.’
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Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.
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“Media Outlets shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they’re covering the President of the United States, the Trump Administration, or the United States of America,” he continued, adding that he would soon ban other outlets.
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The move was immediately met with heavy backlash on First Amendment grounds, though Trump has stood by the decision.
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