Brian Stelter: ‘The White House Is Trying To Break’ the TV Pool System

RUSH EXCERPT:

STELTER: "Right. The pool is the primary way that Americans know what the president is doing and saying. There are several different pools. There‘s a print pool with news reporters from the ap and Reuters and The New York Times. There‘s a pool. There‘s a still photography pool. Trump lights, lots of photographers that could be around him every day. So he lets in five different outlets for photos. But then we‘re talking primarily about the TV pool, and that is the responsibility shared by the five major networks in the U.S. it used to be four until CNN actually sued. Ted Turner did this in the early 1980s to get CNN added. Actually, it was three. Then it was CNN with four. Then it was Fox News. There‘s five major networks that now responsible. They take turns. It‘s an alphabetical order. It‘s very simple. A c, and it goes through the list. So tomorrow is CNN‘s turn."