Blanche reit­er­ates nation­al secu­ri­ty con­cerns jus­ti­fy White House reporter ban

Attor­ney Gen­er­al Todd Blanche defend­ed the White House’s reporter ban on Sun­day, reit­er­at­ing that it was imple­ment­ed for nation­al secu­ri­ty pur­pos­es.
“Well, the pres­i­dent hasn’t denied access, that’s not the right way to describe it,” Blanche said while speak­ing with Martha Rad­datz on ABC News’s This Week. She asked Blanche to jus­ti­fy the lack of TV pool cov­er­age of Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump’s atten­dance at the Texas-Ten­nessee foot­ball game on Sat­ur­day after Trump barred CNN, Politi­co, and MSNOW from access­ing the White House grounds on Mon­day.

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