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WASHINGTON \u2014 CNN, MS NOW and Politico journalists were allowed back at the White House on Thursday, nearly a week after President Donald Trump banned them. They were reinstated after a judge ruled that the administration had to temporarily restore their access.
White House reporters Betsy Klein of CNN and Laura Barr\u00f3n-L\u00f3pez of MS NOW immediately began reporting live on the air after they were allowed onto the White House grounds Thursday afternoon. Both media outlets pointed to the on-air reporting when they were asked for comment. Politico wrote shortly afterward<\/a> that one of its reporters was granted access, too.
The media outlets scored a victory overnight when U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly reinstated their access for 14 days while their legal challenge proceeded.
Yet on Thursday morning, reporters from the banned outlets were still prohibited from entering the White House. Shortly afterward, Kelly ordered the administration to respond in writing by 12:30 p.m. after journalists from the three outlets were turned away. After receiving a filing from White House press operations director Micah Stopperich, the judge denied the news organizations\u2019 request for an emergency hearing.
It was not clear why the journalists were initially still barred from entering. The White House did not immediately respond to NBC News\u2019 request for comment.
In the administration\u2019s court filing shortly before the deadline, Stopperich presented a timeline of the administration\u2019s activity to reinstate the journalists\u2019 access.
Stopperich said that her team was told shortly after 7 a.m. to restore access \u201cto affected reporters by turning on their hard badges\u201d and that soon after, it began to do so. The Secret Service indicated shortly after 9 a.m. that the journalists\u2019 passes were \u201cback on\u201d and that they were dropped off at the entry gate for pickup within the hour.
Later, two reporters for CNN<\/a> and another from MS NOW<\/a> were turned away from the state dinner arrivals at the White House, in which Trump hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping, both outlets reported.
Both outlets were admitted back onto White House grounds earlier in the day. The event was open press but all media had to RSVP for credentials. These three journalists applied, but their credentials were not issued. They tried to go in with the rest of the press, gave their names and their outlets\u2019 names, but were turned away.
Trump announced his ban on the three news outlets Friday on Truth Social<\/a>, saying it was \u201ca result of their constant \u2018reporting\u2019 FAKE NEWS!\u201d
Kelly wrote in his temporary restraining order that Trump\u2019s directive was most likely unconstitutional. <\/strong>He wrote that the plaintiffs are likely to succeed in their lawsuit against the administration, at least on the grounds that their credentials were revoked last week without due process.
Trump, the judge wrote, did not dispute that the outlets \u201cdid not receive notice and an opportunity to be heard before their hard passes were revoked.\u201d
The attorney representing the news outlets, Ted Boutrous, said in a statement: \u201cThis is a strong ruling vindicating freedom of the press, due process and the rule of law. We greatly appreciate the court\u2019s swift action.\u201d
Thursday\u2019s order rejected the White House\u2019s argument that outlets were banned because of national security concerns<\/a>, saying the administration <\/strong>offered little proof to back up the claim.
\u201cCertainly, that is not what President Trump said when he announced that he was \u2018banning\u2019 Plaintiffs from the White House \u2014 instead, he focused on the alleged lack of truthfulness and negativity of Plaintiffs\u2019 reporting,\u201d Kelly wrote.
Inside the lawsuit challenging Trump's White House outlet ban
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office a short time after the post, Trump referred to his directive as \u201cthe ban on the free press.\u201d
\u201cI don\u2019t want them in my office. I don\u2019t want them here,\u201d he said<\/a>.
He said the policy was a response not to a particular report but to \u201ccumulative stories over the last few years.\u201d
\u201cThey purposely write negative news. And they do that because they want to try and diminish the Republicans and a Republican administration,\u201d he said. \u201cIf they could straighten themselves out, I\u2019d love it.\u201d
The outlets said in their suit challenging the ban that Trump\u2019s remarks show that the policy was motivated by \u201cretaliation\u201d and that it was \u201cintended to cow\u201d them \u201cinto changing their reporting and threaten other journalists lest they suffer the same fate.\u201d
The White House accused the news outlets in letters Tuesday of publishing \u201csensitive security information, and misinformation,\u201d which \u201cundermines the President\u2019s ability to safeguard the national security.\u201d
The White House cited specific articles about munitions stockpiles affected by the Iran war and sanctions against Russia, as well as one about a request for $1 billion in funding <\/a>for East Wing renovations that Trump had said would be fully funded by donors and another about negative \u201cvibes\u201d<\/a> at the recent Republican midterm convention.
Addressing the \u201cextraordinary\u201d standard that the government argued gave it the right to revoke the outlets\u2019 passes without notice, Kelly wrote that the sorts of stories cited in the letters \u201care routine\u201d and stretch back months or even years.
In fact, one of the stories<\/a> that the Trump administration cited in its letter to Politico, which was about efforts to end the Iran war, was based on information the news outlet got on a White House press call with a senior administration official. Journalists on the call, including from NBC News<\/a>, had been informed it was held \u201con background\u201d and had agreed to \u201cattribute remarks to a \u2018senior administration official.\u2019\u201d
Other news organizations, including The Associated Press and CNBC, reported on the same briefing using the same attribution and were not included in Trump\u2019s ban.
The White House did not respond to a request for comment on the Politico story\u2019s sourcing.
NBC News has reported<\/a> that Trump\u2019s announcement Friday caught a number of high-level White House aides off guard. A senior White House official defended the move to NBC News this week, saying, \u201cNobody close to the President was surprised at his action to hold the fake news accountable.\u201d
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association and a group of 49 news and media organizations \u2014 including NBCUniversal Media, the parent company of NBC News \u2014 filed a legal brief Wednesday backing the three outlets.
The filing said <\/a>Trump\u2019s stated reasons for the ban \u201care transparently viewpoint discriminatory\u201d and \u201cinconsistent with the First Amendment.\u201d
\u201cThe ban at issue in this case does exactly what longstanding D.C. Circuit precedent\u201d has said the government cannot do, the filing said \u2014 \u201cprohibited three news organizations from access to the entirety of the White House and its grounds due to the content of their reporting.\u201d
It also clashes, the filing said, \u201cwith bedrock Supreme Court precedent, which recognizes that \u2018even though a person has no \u2018right\u2019 to a valuable governmental benefit,\u2019 the government \u2018may not deny a benefit to a person on a basis that infringes his constitutionally protected interests \u2014 especially, his interest in freedom of speech.\u2019\u201d
Gary Grumbach is an NBC News legal affairs reporter, based in Washington, D.C.
Dareh Gregorian is a politics reporter for NBC News.
Rudy Chinchilla is a breaking news editor for NBC News Digital.
Rebecca Shabad is a politics reporter for NBC News based in Washington.
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