Hey guys, this is a breaking news edition of the Jim Acosta show. I was just signing off a few moments ago, but I'm signing back on because the Associated Press has won.

I guess you could call it round one in its fight over excesses to covering Trump at the White House against Donald Trump.

This is according to the New York Times.

This was just happening, I guess, as I was signing off last hour.

Forgive me.

New York Times says, federal judge orders the White House to restore the associated

presses access to certain White House events and agreed that it had been taken, I guess,

singled out. The New York Times says, over its

editorial decision. Let's dive into this. This is coming in from the New York Times. They just posted

their story at 507 p.m. is literally when I was coming off of the show. But I'm going to just go

ahead and do this as a breaking news edition of the Jim Acosta show. Judge Trevor N. McFadden of the show, but I'm going to just go ahead and do this as a breaking news edition of the Jim

Acosta show. Judge Trevor N. McFadden of the Federal District Court for the District of Washington

wrote in his opinion that the Trump administration must, quote, immediately rescind their viewpoint-based

denial of the Associated Press from the White House Press Corps. This is what the judge

wrote. The government repeatedly characterizes the AP's request as a demand for special access,

but that is not what the AP is asking for, and it is not what the court orders. All the AP wants

and all it gets is a level playing field. Basically, this all came to head, folks. We've been

talking about this for some time, that the Associated Press, and forgive me, I put all my

equipment away, no lights, you just got me raw and unfiltered here. The Associated Press refused to

buckle to Donald Trump's demand that the press refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, which I've called on this program many times a silly, stupid thing.

The Associated Press made the right and correct decision, the right and correct editorial decision to continue calling the Gulf of Mexico,

the Gulf of Mexico, because that's what it is. It's not the Gulf of America. That's silliness.

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