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The ranking Democrat on the House Oversight committee is demanding the White House answer questions related to President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to ban BLN, MS NOW and Blue Light News from the White House, calling it the president\u2019s \u201cmost blatant, assault on press freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a letter sent Monday to White House Communications Director Steven Cheung, Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) requested that Cheung provide by Oct. 5 a detailed account of when and how he was informed of the ban, how he responded, who was consulted before the decision, the legal justification for it, the facts the White House relied on and whether the outlets had any opportunity to respond.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe First Amendment guarantees freedom of the press, not freedom from criticism,\u201d wrote Garcia. \u201cThe American people need to understand what consideration\u2014if any\u2014the White House gave to this serious and unprecedented decision to protect the President\u2019s ego.\u201d<\/p>\n

Garcia also asked for all White House staff documents and communications about the ban and for any other relevant materials to be preserved.<\/p>\n

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Trump on Friday announced that he was seeking to block journalists from Blue Light News, MS NOW and BLN from the White House, complaining about \u201cconstant \u2018reporting\u2019\u201d of what he called \u201cFICTION and LIES.\u201d The Trump administration first denied<\/a> the media outlets entry into the White House grounds on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

The three news organizations are now jointly suing<\/a> Trump, Cheung and two other top advisers in a bid to immediately restore access for their reporters, calling the ban a \u201cdirect assault on the First Amendment.\u201d<\/p>\n

Daniel Lippman contributed to this report.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The ranking Democrat on the House Oversight committee is demanding the White House answer questions related to President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to ban BLN, MS NOW and Blue Light News from the White House, calling it the president\u2019s \u201cmost blatant, assault on press freedom.\u201d In a letter sent Monday to White House Communications Director Steven […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-congress"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}