Levitt defends the AP prohibition of OVAL Office on the “GULF Of America” ​​position

White House press secretary Caroline Levit defended a decision from the White House on Tuesday to keep the Associated Press outside the group of correspondents allowed inside in the Oval Office to cover an executive order with President Trump and billionaire Elon Musk.

“We reserve the right to determine who will go to the oval office,” Levitte said, “We reserve the right to determine who will go to the Oval Office,” describing “a privilege to cover the White House.”

AP said on Tuesday that he was prevented from covering two speeches for the White House because of his refusal to “align the editorial standards with President Trump’s executive order, which repeats the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.”

Levitte was pressed on Wednesday by CNN Kaylan Colines for the decision, and asked me whether the White House’s status towards AP should be seen as a revenge by nature or could be considered as a critic of the source of the first amendment announced Trump.

The press secretary answered: “If we feel that there are lies paid by outlets in this room, we will bear these lies.” “It is the fact that the body of the water off the coast of Louisiana is called the Gulf of America, and I am not sure of the reason for the unwillingness of news to call it, but this is what it is.”

After Trump moved to change the name to the water body, the AP – which provides a pattern evidence for a number of other news outlets across the country – has updated its policy saying that it would refer to the Gulf of Mexico “with its original name with acknowledgment of a new name chose Trump.”

The news of the wire service that is prevented from some of the White House events ignited a quick reaction from the journalistic freedom groups and the White House correspondence association.

“The White House cannot dictate how the news organizations report the news, and it should not punish the working journalists because it is not satisfied with the decisions of their editors,” Whica said in a statement. “This step by the administration to ban a correspondent from the Associated Press from an official open event for news coverage today is unacceptable.”