I'm going to give you some breaking news right now.

Earlier today, I had planned on posting my interview with Senator Ron Wyden at the Ted Kennedy Institute.

I'm going to be putting that up later on this evening.

But in the meantime, there is some breaking news to tell you about right now.

And hopefully everybody can hear me and that this sounds okay.

The Associated Press has sued the Trump

administration over the Trump administration in the White House blocking the AP from the Oval Office in

Air Force One. I have the lawsuit right here. It says the Associated Press versus Taylor Budowich, Caroline

Levitt, and Susie Wiles. She's the White House Chief of Staff. This is a big breaking news in the

fight for the First Amendment in this country. Of course, the White House has been barring the AP

from the Oval Office and Air Force One because the AP refuses to call the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf of America.

Well, listen to this. Listen to this. I'm going to read this lawsuit to you. Again, I'm live from the airport, so please forgive me.

But this is breaking news. It says, here it is. I'm reading it to you right now. Plaintiff, the Associated Press, brings the suit against defendants, each in their official capacities and states as follows. This is the introduction to the lawsuit. The White House has ordered the Associated Press to use certain words in its coverage or else face an indefinite denial of access. The press and all

people in the United States have the right to choose their own words and not be retaliated against

by the government. These are very strong words from the Associated Press. It goes on to say the

Constitution does not allow the government to control speech, allowing such government control and retaliation

to stand as a threat to every American's freedoms. The AP therefore brings this action to vindicate

its rights to the editorial independence guaranteed by the United States Constitution and to

prevent the executive branch from coercing journalists to report the news using only government-approved

language. Again, I'm reading here from the Associated Press lawsuit against the White House,

against the Trump administration over its attack on the AP's First Amendment rights,

because they use the term Gulf of Mexico as they should.

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