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'Walls are caving in': Insider details how 'terrible week' set off Trump's teeth-gnashing

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A Washington, D.C., insider offered an explanation for President Donald Trump's ban on three news outlets from the White House. CNN, MS NOW and Politico have notified the 80-year-old president they're filing a lawsuit after their reporters were blocked from the White House on Saturday after Trump said he would ban them over what he called "fake news," and Axios co-founder Jim VandeHei told "CNN This Morning" what he believes set off the confrontation . "The move, I think, is small, silly and stupid, right?" VandeHei sid. " It's small in that it's not going to make a damn bit of difference in terms of how people do their coverage . It's stupid in that I don't think it's going to hold up in court, a nd I think eventually you're going to have everyone just doing their job the way they should do it." "I hate the precedent of it, and the reason that it's happening is the president feels the walls are caving in," he added. "It was a terrible week for him last week. Everyone around him knows