White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended the administration's move Tuesday to block an AP reporter from attending an event in the Oval Office, calling it "an invitation that is given" and underscoring that the White House reserves "the right to decide who gets to go into the Oval Office."
The White House blocked an Associated Press reporter from an event in the Oval Office on Tuesday after demanding the news agency alter its style on the Gulf of Mexico, which President Donald Trump has ordered to be renamed the Gulf of America.