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Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Secret Service Blocks CBS Reporter From Asking Question


The Secret Service is reviewing an incident from last night in which an agent blocked a CBS News reporter from asking White House senior adviser and President Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner a question.

When CBS' Errol Barnett realized he was on the same flight from Washington to New York as Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump, who's also a White House advisor, the reporter tried to ask Kushner a question about the allegations that Saudi Arabia murdered and dismembered Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.

But a Secret Service agent blocked Barnett's phone, and when the reporter showed the agent his press credentials, he answered, "I don't give a damn who you are, there's a time and place."

Barnett tweeted the video, and explained on CBS Evening News that Kushner, who doesn't speak to the press, is the administration's main envoy to Saudi Arabia and central to Trump's close ties to the kingdom's rulers, particularly Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

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