White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt made a bold assertion Thursday while speaking with Fox News' Jesse Watters. Leavitt's appearance came less than a week after the Associated Press filed a lawsuit against her and other White House staffers for the Trump administration's decision to bar the news entity from the Oval Office and Air Force One over its refusal to change its styling of the Gulf of Mexico to the Trump-created "Gulf

The move reflects the Trump administration’s more-skeptical attitude toward traditional media outlets.

The White House said Tuesday that its officials “will determine” which news outlets can regularly cover President Donald Trump up close — a sharp break from a century of tradition in which a pool of independently chosen news organizations go where the chief executive does and hold him accountable on behalf of regular Americans.