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21 " In fact, the Justice Department argued, the president could ban the entire press corps from the White House: “No journalist has a First Amendment right to enter the White House. "
― , Front Row at the Trump Show
22 " But he hadn’t really answered my question, so I tried another. “You reject those who say he’s racist?” “You had one question,” he said. “I answered your question. I don’t answer questions in simple sound bites. You are tasting a fine wine. It has multiple notes to it. You better play four-D chess with me like it’s Minority Report. Because it ain’t that simple. It’s complex. "
23 " First, the WHCA amicus brief outlines the clear implications of the president’s argument as put forth in the Justice Department response to the CNN lawsuit: The President of the United States maintains that he has absolute, unbridled discretion to decide who can report from inside the White House. Under the President’s view of the law, if he does not like the content of an "
24 " article that a journalist writes about him, he can deny that journalist access to the White House. If he does not like the viewpoint that a journalist expresses about him, he can deny that journalist access to the White House. If he decides that a journalist’s story is “fake news,” he can deny that journalist access to the White House. In fact, according to the President, if he alone considers a journalist a “bad” or a “rude” person, he can deny that journalist access to the White House. "
25 " The WHCA amicus brief addressed the far-reaching implications of the president’s argument—implications not just for reporters or news organizations but for American democracy. "
26 " Simply stated, if the President were to have absolute discretion to strip a correspondent of his [press] pass, the chilling effect would be severe and the First Amendment protections afforded journalists to gather and report news on the activities of the President would be largely eviscerated. White House correspondents would have to choose between avoiding reporting or questioning that could upset the President, on the one hand, and risk the loss of a [press] pass—a requirement of the job—on the other hand. Forcing those who cover the President to make such "
27 " an untenable choice is not something the First Amendment can tolerate. Nor can the First Amendment—or our democracy as a whole, for that matter, tolerate yielding to the President the power to effectively choose who does and who does not cover him. "
28 " I’m sure the attorney general would acknowledge that anybody who touches US soil has a right to due process,” she said. "
29 " On Friday, October 7, 2016, Vladimir Putin received a massive bouquet of four hundred fifty roses—a gift for his sixty-fourth birthday, one rose from each member of the Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament. "
30 " Donald Trump lies for comic effect, he lies to make himself feel good, he lies to make you feel good, he lies because he likes to, he lies because he can. "