white house every day, he said that shouldn t overweigh any of jim acosta s rights here. he said it was important jim acosta as an individual journalist have that right and have his due process rights not violated. so kate, an important ruling here for cnn, and really for all journalists as the aclu has noted. jim acosta, his press pass must be immediately restored. we have reached out to the white house, haven t heard comment yet. also reached out to the department of justice to get their thoughts on this. we have not heard back yet. but jim acosta, as he put it today as he left the courthouse, he said let s get back to work. back to you. and so we do. great to see you. thank you so much. let me bring in for more on this, chief media correspondent brian stelter here as well as chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin. on jessica s point, do kwee know what that means for acosta today? is he heading over to the white house today? the agreement is his press pass will be reinstated immedi
it s not right. create some sort of process for rather than just taking it away willy-nilly. brian, the argument that cnn s attorneys made here is that this was capricious and arbitrary, doing this against jim acosta and against cnn. and this is the judge agreeing with that in part. yes, at times this judge, a trump appointee, seemed to emphasize the limited nature of his ruling. it seems he does not want to say completely that this is a cnn that cnn is in the clear here. this is a legal battle, as jeffrey is saying. our colleagues in the krcourtro are sharing quotes from the judge. at the courthouse, they said the judge said i want to emphasize the very limited nature of today s ruling. i haven t determined that the first amendment was violated here. i have not determined the nature of first amendment interests in this case, but the headline is that the temporary restraining order has been granted. that means acosta s press pass is returned right away and will
process under the law. now, precisely what process that is, the judge didn t spell that out. again, if i believe you know, this situation cries out for a sensible, honorable, nonlegal solution. jim acosta made his point. and cnn made its point. the white house made its point. let s shake hands and move forward. we don t need to, as they say, make a federal case out of it, even though one has been made. for the record, cnn did try. they tried for several days to get the press pass back. there were private conversations and e-mails. white house did not respond, didn t want to engage. that s why the lawsuit was filed. i wanted to get your take. in court, not today, but previously, the attorney representing the white house and the president suggested acosta could do his job, i think the quote was, just as effectively, if he had been watching a feed of the press conference from a cnn bureau. that fundamentally is not
changing those laws. and not those laws, changing those traditions, changing those norms. and you know, here we have a judge saying, if you want to change the norm, at least in this case, you have to do a better, fairer job. announce it and make it a real process. we have from our d.c. bureau chief now, cnn has officially requested the return of the press pass. you asked me if acosta might be back later today. sam saying we expect he will be reporting from the white house this afternoon. good to hear. thanks. really appreciate it. coming up for us, is being called an administrative error, but it also could have big implications. will charges now be filed against julian assange and what does this have to do with a clerical error? that s next. your typical bank. capital one is anything but typical. that s why we designed capital one cafes. you can get savings and checking accounts with no fees or minimums.
there. c n cnn has made mistakes. i m not talking about you. would you grant that s not the same thing as deliberately fake news. the president claims repeatedly the reporters make sources up out of the either which is not true. what they do is report things that are not well sourced. that s not what the president says. that s not what the president claims. but that feeds their agenda. and that s fake news. if you re reporting something that you don t have good sources on or you haven t really checked out but it comports with the story line you want, that s fake news. that s just as guilty as making it up. no, so i think we havec conflated a few things. fake news has become synonymous with news we do not like. if we want to talk about fake news, i.e. altered information, that come from the internet, like breitbart in some instances. like infowars. left and right. you mentioned two on the right.