The White House says it will decide which news outlets have access to the president, ripping power away from an independent group of journalists.

In a free country, leaders must not be able to choose their own press corps,” the White House press group said.

It will determine which outlets participate in the rotating pool that reports from the Oval Office and Air Force One.

A federal U.S. district judge allowed the Trump White House to keep its ban on the Associated Press. The AP sued the Trump administration after the White House restricted the wire service from covering President Donald Trump at his press conferences in the Oval Office and aboard Air Force One,

Eugene Daniels, president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, is pushing back on the administration’s hostility to reporters as he navigates a move to MSNBC from Politico.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt talks Oval Office fallout, Elon Musk and DOGE's efforts, the White House's changes to the press pool and more on 'MediaBuzz.'

Donald Trump has consistently shown his disdain for journalists, frequently calling the media “the enemy of the people”. “The press, we're not the enemy of the people, we're defenders of the people,” says former Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta.