Breaking Update: Kaitlan Collins just announced that every major TV network is standing with CNN, refusing to replace them, which means there will be no camera broadcasting Trump today at all.
With CNN banned from the White House and unable to fulfill its normal pool camera duties, other major networks had a choice: step in and take over CNN’s spot, or refuse. They refused. CNN’s Kaitlan Collins broke the news live, reporting on an email sent to TV pool subscribers. “Effective today, the TV pool will not be covering events designated as pool coverage of the President,” the email read. “This follows the White House’s position preventing CNN from fulfilling its assigned pool duties.
There will be no replacement pool put in place.” Read that again. No replacement pool. At all. Collins laid out exactly what this means in practice: when the president does anything today, there will be no TV camera with him broadcasting and sharing that footage with the wider press corps and networks around the world. Think about the significance of that.
Every major network, across the entire industry, made a coordinated decision that the answer to Trump punishing one network wasn’t to quietly take its place. It was to refuse to participate in a system that lets the White House pick and choose which outlets get to do their jobs. This is united pushback from an entire industry, announced live by Kaitlan Collins, not just one outlet fighting alone.
