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CNN Threatens New Legal Action Against Trump Over Media Ban

CNN is threatening to file another lawsuit against the Trump administration for continuing to deny it access to the Air Force One press pool. “These efforts to retaliate and discriminate against CNN based on the content of its news coverage are mistaken, counterproductive, and unlawful,” Ted Boutrous, the network’s outside counsel, wrote in a letter to…

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