Last night, the Defense Department issued a revised policy for credentialing media to enter the Pentagon.

It comes after a judge on Friday struck down the Pentagon's previous rules that determined access to the building.

But a spokesperson for the New York Times, which sued the Pentagon, said the new policy does not comply with the judge's order,

and the newspaper has filed a new motion this

evening to compel the Defense Department to do so. Our Liz Landers is here with more. Liz.

That's right, Jeff. For decades, journalists who have covered the Defense Department were issued

press credentials that allowed them to come and go into the Pentagon. But last year, the vast

majority of reporters who cover the building

walked out en masse after losing their workspace and refusing to agree to new Trump administration

rules for credentialing reporters. Those rules demanded reporters signed a document saying they

would not seek information from Pentagon employees, something most reporters would not agree to.

In December, the New York Times filed a lawsuit challenging these restrictions, and its lead

attorney, Ted Boutros, joins me now. Ted, thank you so much for joining the NewsHour.

Thank you.

Let's begin first by asking about the merits and the legal argument that you made in this case.

You said that the Pentagon's policy was a violation not only of the First Amendment, but also of the Fifth.

What did the judge's opinion find?

The judge's opinion powerfully found that the Pentagon's policy was meant to engage in viewpoint discrimination,

that it was meant to purge reporters who wanted to independently ferret out information

from sources and from the Pentagon independently and only get reporters in there who would report

the party line from the department, authorized

information, which, as you know, is directly counter to the way journalism works and the way

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