White House removes CNN from coverage of Trump’s Tennessee trip

White House removed CNN from pool coverage of President Donald Trump’s Tennessee trip on Saturday. On Friday night, the White House sent guidance that removed CNN from the list of outlets designated for pool coverage. The pool is a rotating group of networks that share duties of filming the president both in Washington and on official trips. Other member networks—Fox News, ABC News, CBS News and NBC News—briefly boycotted participating in the pool this week after Trump banned CNN from serving as a member.

The trip includes a college football game in Knoxville between the University of Texas and the University of Tennessee. CNN was scheduled to fly with Trump on Air Force One on Saturday as part of its pool duties covering the president’s trip to the game. In the president’s schedule released Friday night, CNN was not listed as a member of the pool and no other network was listed as replacing it. The move is the latest development in the White House’s attempt to restrict access by CNN and other outlets to cover the White House.

The president last week had banned CNN, MS NOW and Politico from accessing the White House before a judge temporarily blocked that move Thursday and ordered the administration to restore their reporters’ credentials for 14 days. While the order restored the outlets’ access to the White House, it didn’t explicitly require the administration to restore CNN’s participation in the television pool. The White House did not immediately return a request for comment. Casey Wooten is a breaking news editor for the politics team at NBC News.

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