EPA Bans CNN, Other Media from Pruitt Event.
BLITZER: Today, the Environmental Protection Agency barred members of the news media, including CNN, from a national summit on harmful chemicals in drinking water. We're joined by CNN Money senior media reporter, Oliver Darcy. Pretty shocking stuff, Oliver. What happened?</s>OLIVER DARCY, CNN MONEY SENIOR MEDIA REPORTER: Certainly, shocking, Wolf. Several journalists, when they were trying to cover this EPA event where Scott Pruitt was speaking were blocked entry by security and told they couldn't enter the event. I'm told the A.P> spokesperson provided security with a list of reporters allowed to go in and cover the event. And when other journalists, including from CNN, tried to go in, they were blocked by security. The Associated Press is saying one of their reporters, when they protested and asked to talk to a public affairs person so they could get inside the event, that they were shoved outside the building, something that our journalists even witnessed.</s>BLITZER: Physically --</s>DARCY: Physically shoved by a uniformed security guard. The Associated Press, in a statement they put out, their executive editor, and it says that, "The selective barring of news organizations, including the A.P., from covering today's meeting is alarming and a direct threat to the public's right to know about what is happening inside their government. It is particularly distressing that any journalist trying to cover an event in the public interest would be forcibly removed." CNN put out a statement separately saying, "We understand the importance of an open and free press and we open the EPA does, too."</s>BLITZER: It's shocking. This is an open event. It's not classified information. Reporters were invited but they specifically told the Associated Press and CNN get out?</s>DARCY: Right, that they could not go into the event. The EPA said it's a space limitation from the venue and they provided a live stream where people could watch separately. But a journalist with "The Hill" published a story saying there were vacant seats in the press area and there was a little bit of room. We obtained a photograph from inside the press area that shows there was certainly space for additional cameras.</s>BLITZER: Very often, when some journalists are expelled from this, the other, journalists stand up and protest and they walk out as well. In this particular case, they went in?</s>DARCY: Yes. There was no walkout that I'm aware of. We did talk to one of the journalists in the room and there was room for CNN to have cameras there and for the A.P..</s>BLITZER: Pretty shocking stuff. There's a dinner tonight, reporters committee for freedom of the press. I'm on the advisory committee of that organization. It's shocking, sometimes, to see what's going on here in the</s>U.S. DARCY: You might want to extend an invite to the</s>EPA. BLITZER: Yes. Thanks very much, Oliver, for that. There's more breaking news. The president is now saying the summit with North Korea's Kim Jong-Un may not happen after all next month. You're seeing the president of South Korea, President Moon, now leaving the West Wing of the White House.