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turbinetree

(24,683 posts)
Tue Jul 17, 2018, 01:21 PM Jul 2018

Reporter kicked out of Trump-Putin press conference in Helsinki

Moments before the highly anticipated press conference between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, a credentialed member of the media holding a sign reading "Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty" was kicked out of the room inside the Presidential Palace in Helsinki. He was later identified as Sam Husseini, the communications director of a Washington non-profit who was covering the Trump-Putin summit in Finland on behalf of the magazine The Nation.

Video of the incident shows Husseini holding the sign before security quickly grabbed him and forcibly took him out of the venue.

Husseini was removed twice, initially cooperating with security agents and exiting the media area. He came back, however, and brandished a sheet of paper with writing on it, at which point he was removed by force.

CBS News' White House correspondent Weijia Jiang was nearby when the removal unfolded.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sam-husseini-the-nation-reporter-journalist-trump-putin-summit-helsinki-finland-nuclear-weapons-ban-treaty/


Anyone hear of this .................

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Reporter kicked out of Trump-Putin press conference in Helsinki (Original Post) turbinetree Jul 2018 OP
It happened right before the presser. kag Jul 2018 #1
I must have missed that....................its still messed up................... turbinetree Jul 2018 #2

kag

(4,078 posts)
1. It happened right before the presser.
Tue Jul 17, 2018, 01:30 PM
Jul 2018

It was live on MSNBC, but it was hard to tell exactly what was happening.

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