Michael Velchik

The White House has continued to bar CNN from taking its place in TV pool coverage of Trump's travel on Air Force One.

And so the network may need to take additional action, said an attorney for CNN in a letter to Justice Department attorney Michael K. Velchik.

Noted in the letter that CNN has traditionally had uninterrupted access to the Oval Office and Air Force One for 45 years.

That is because those spaces belong not to any particular president or administration, but to all Americans.

And I want to connect this to another point that I think we discussed earlier and has gotten some attention.

The lead attorney for the government in this case is a man named Michael Velchik, and there has been lots of reporting about him, and we've discussed it, Glenn.

Michael Velchik, when he was a Harvard student, professed his praise for Mein Kampf.

So two times in a single case, we have people who have a record of extremist statements, extremist history, trying to ban a free press from the White House.

The symbolism doesn't get more on the nose than that.