The Trump administration has lost some significant cases in recent days regarding freedom of the press.

And one, a judge permanently enjoined the enforcement of Trump's executive order, defunding PBS and NPR.

And in another case, a judge ordered that the Pentagon restore press passes for the New York Times,

saying that the policy they issued in October

severely restricting independent reporting,

including reporting from anonymous sources,

was unconstitutional.

In both cases, the lead lawyer was Ted Boutros' needs here today

to talk to us about how he got those wins, what we can expect, because in one case,

it seems of course that the Trump administration and the Pentagon specifically doesn't

seem to want to comply with the judge's order. Thank you, Ted, so much for joining us today.

Oh, it's great to be with you. Thanks for inviting me. Now let's jump into the Pentagon case first because as you said in the hearing where

you filed a motion to compel, we are in the middle of a war.

And the Pentagon specifically issued this policy back in October, but is extremely relevant today.

Their restrictive policy, instead of complying with the judge's order and allowing the New York

Times to have their press passes based on the prior administration's policy, they made it more

restrictive.

Instead, they now took away the correspondence quarter and said

that the New York Times and other reporters had to be in an annex building and escorted in. And also,

again, still, they may have changed the language saying instead of soliciting, they couldn't compel

or induce the giving of anonymous sources. But tell us about how

in this moment in particular, in the middle of a war, and after judge's order saying that was

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