The five major networks in the White House press pool — CNN, Fox News, ABC, NBC and CBS — said they would stop covering President Donald Trump’s events, and CNN, MS NOW and Politico sued the administration on Monday to restore their access to the building, according to Deadline and Politico.
The pool chair and Fox News Washington bureau chief, Bryan Boughton, told subscribers that “effective today, the TV pool will not be covering events designated as pool coverage of the President” and that there would be no replacement for CNN, barred on Friday along with Politico and MS NOW. The lawsuit, filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia, seeks a temporary restraining order to restore credentials and names White House communications director Steven Cheung, chief of staff Susan Wiles and Secret Service Director Sean Curran.