CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Says Karoline Leavitt Defended Her Free Press Rights as Saudis Tried to Ban Her from an Event

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COLLINS: “When we were in Saudi Arabia and we were on a foreign trip with the president, and he came in with all the other leaders, including the Saudi crown prince. They famously do not like the media there --”
MCMAHAN: “Right.”
COLLINS: “-- and -- to put it lightly. And I asked a shouted question to President Trump, who had seen me when the U.S. press came in. He didn't answer, which is -- I mean, that's how it works. You shout questions, they either answer or they don't. It's their prerogative. And then the world leaders left the room. The Saudi Royal Guard kind of freaked out because I dared to ask a question. And they're not used to that there because they don't have a free press. And so they came up and they said, 'OK, well, you can't come into the next event.'“
MCMAHAN: “Wow!”
COLLINS: “-- which was like two minutes later. And I was like, 'That's not how this works. I go into the U.S. press,' and they were like, 'Well, you're not coming in.' And I could see them like whispering and pointing about me. And some of the younger White House staff that were there with the press weren't really sure what to do. And they went to Karoline. And to her credit, she said, 'No, Kaitlan's coming in with the rest of the U.S. press.'“