Reporter Roundtable: Showdown between Trump and the press
Power & Politics

Reporter Roundtable: Showdown between Trump and the press

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 25, 202623 min
  • Politics

Reporters from CNN, MS NOW and Politico who were barred from the White House are back, after a judge blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's media ban. Where does this leave the feud between Trump and the press who cover him? The Reporter Roundtable is here to dig in.

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Globe and Mail, Mia Rabson is deputy parliamentary

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Reporters barred from the White House are back after a judge blocked the US President's media ban on three news outlets. The reporter roundtable is back to weigh in on the showdown between the President and the press.

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Robert Fife is a former Ottawa bureau chief for the Globe and Mail, Mia Rabson is deputy parliamentary bureau chief at the Canadian press, and Joëlle Denis Belévence is the parliamentary bureau chief

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for La Press. I tried to get you three banned but the audience and the production team wouldn't let you do it. Bob, would you make of this? I mean this is an obvious or seems to be an obvious

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