Fresh of a legal victory allowing it to ban the Associated Press from White House events, the Trump White House announced on Tuesday that the administration — not an independent group of journalists — will determine which outlets have access to the president as part of a pool allowed into the Oval Office, aboard Air Force One and into other otherwise closed meetings and events. Press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced the changes in the briefing room on Tuesday, asserting that the White House Correspondents' Association "should no longer have a monopoly" on organizing pools and that the White House would determine the makeup of the pool on a day-to-day basis. "All journalists, outlets and voices deserve a seat at this highly coveted table," Leavitt said. Read the latest
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