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The excerpt says Trump spoke to reporters in the Oval Office as part of a health care event and later planned a press-pool dinner; it does not support the claim that the session was a press conference announcing a press ban. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: WATCH: Trump says he is banning CNN, MSNOW and Politico from the White House · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:a14a812760e7795bdf83885924805eb8b0426957489053e156bd479089f2b621

It came moments before Trump spoke to reporters in the Oval Office as part of a health care event. He later planned to take the press pool to his golf club in Virginia for a meeting and dinner sponsored by his Super PAC before spending the weekend at Camp David — one of the few places reporters don't follow him.