“It’s confusing,” Fallon griped. “When you walk in the White House and say who’s in charge, everyone just shrugs like they’re working at Lids.” The sports headwear purveyor might not appreciate the jab, but hats off to the host anyway.

The White House’s move to take control of which outlets participate in the press pool is a break from a century of tradition with the White House Correspondents’ Association.

The administration’s changes to the pool come at a moment when the White House is chipping away at the ability of major news organizations to cover it.

Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday mocked the Trump administration’s commandeering of the press pool covering the president. This week press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced that the White House would pick and choose which reporters will cover Donald Trump on a daily basis.

The White House reversed decades of precedent by saying it “will determine” which press pool reporters can cover President Trump. The President of the White House Correspondents’ Association Eugene Daniels joins Chris Jansing to weigh in on this reversal and the risk it poses for a free press.

The liberal legacy media’s whining and lying about the latest move by the Trump White House to expand access to all outlets is receiving a strong pushback from advocates of having a more representative press corps cover the administration.