Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe conducted a press conference at the White House on Friday in which all liberal three networks were not chosen to ask questions. ABC didn’t even bother to cover the event live. Only CBS and NBC broke in. Instead, Trump called on Daniel Halper of the New York Post and Blake Burman of Fox Business. Prime Minister Abe took questions from Japanese reporters.

Halper, called on first, asked, “Thank you, Mr. President. I'm curious about yesterday's ruling in the 9th Circuit Court. Has it caused to you rethink your use of executive power and how will you respond, and will you sign new executive orders and perhaps a new travel ban?”

Trump joked, “Well, your question was unrelated to what we’re here for today, but I’ll answer it.”

Burman wondered:

I'd like to pick up where Daniel left off, if you don't mind. You said earlier this week, and I'm quoting for you, you said "I've learned a lot in the last two weeks and terrorism is a far greater threat than the people of our country understand. But we're going to take care of it." Based off of what you have learned, and now knowing that your executive order is at least temporarily on hold, do you still feel as confident now as you have been at any point that you and the administration will be able to protect the homeland?

On January 27, during a joint press conference with Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May, Trump also skipped the networks, instead calling on Reuters, BBC, Fox News and The British Sun.

A transcript of all the questions:

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