house correspondents association has to rain down holy hell and tell him he can t do it. he think he can. he came of age in dealing with the press in the gutter world of new york tabloid journalism. he doesn t know he he is dealing with the high end of the press yet and there is a higher standard that these people are aspiring to in erms of it coverage. margaret i m sure you re taking a page out of the white house handbook and not deal in hypotheticals. but if it were to happen what do you think the reaction would be among the press corps? and there is press den when the obama tried to restrict a fox news reporter from coverage. i think the statement previews the extreme solidarity not just inside the white house press corps but among press advocate. as this was going on the white house correspondents association was coordinating closely with the white house to arrange coverage for the return of the americans held by north korea and for upcome travel.
determine who covers him or at least who doesn t cover him. so, you know, there is some precedent actually if he would take such an action, even in the white house he could for example he might say jim acosta i don t want him here. i ll tell you who you can send from cnn if you want to cover it. this is dangerous. even the rhetoric just, this is the stuff of 30s germany facist talk. this is bad stuff that he says it. i m so glad the white house correspondents association issued some kind of statement today to tell him, look, you walk you are walking up to the line. he didn t cross it he walked up to it. but it s taking some solidarity to back him off. if he tries i think the white house correspondents association has to rain down holy hell and tell him he can t do it. he think he can. he came of age in dealing with the press in the gutter world of new york tabloid journalism. he doesn t know he he is dealing