How the White House sees the fight … Sanders said Friday in an interview with her father, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, filling in for Sean Hannity: “We’ve laid out in a letter to CNN and their team what we think were some of the missteps that their reporter made at the press conference on November 7th.”

“[T]he judge, I think, was actually very clear that the White House has the ability to say: You can’t come in. You don’t have — freedom of the press doesn’t mean freedom into the White House. And he said there has to be due process. And so that’s what we’re doing and we’ll see what happens from there.”

Sanders added that CNN has “50-plus” journalists who hold passes: “So the idea that they aren’t able to get information that they need from the White House is frankly laughable.”