We reserve the right to decide who gets to go into the Oval Office, and you all have the credentials to be here, including the Associated Press, who is in this briefing room today'

The wire service sued three of them for denying its reporters access to press events. The White House has objected to The A.P.’s references to the Gulf of Mexico in articles.

"The press and all people in the United States have the right to choose their own words and not be retaliated against by the government," the AP said in its lawsuit.