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the Bullwork, author of the Press Pass Newsletter, which is our eyes and ears inside the capital.

Today we're doing the video with Mallory Shelburne, who is a reporter for USNI News and is also

on the board of directors at military reporters and editors, or MRE. And we're going to talk a little bit

about what happened with the Pentagon basically demanding that reporters sign a pledge and

a lot of them ended up turning in their badges. And so, Mallory, thanks for coming on.

Thanks for having me, Joe. So you've been a reporter at the Pentagon for years, and when you're not embedded with

foreign militaries or flying over the South China Sea, you're in the Pentagon.

And can you sort of walk us through how this came about?

I guess since the inauguration, they've gotten more strict about press access in the Pentagon.

The Heg-Seth tenure has really sought to impose a lot more restrictions on media.

And so how did this begin and kind of bring us to where we are now?

Sure. So this all started back in January, February, right after the inauguration.

They issued some guidance saying that they were going to move several outlets out of their

work spaces in the Pentagon.

Pentagon reporters have had badges and worked out of the building for decades.

And the TV networks have booths in there with

hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of equipment. They're able to do live shots in there.

So several news outlets were told that they needed to rotate out of their spaces. They were not

losing their badges, but they were losing their workspace.

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