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House and that a president has the authority and the staff to deny someone a press pass just as they do to decide who gets to ask questions in a news conference or who gets interviews with the president, and they said cnn's case was weaker here. they can't claim he's shutting cnn down when cnn has 50 hard passes to the white house, but the initial round here is certainly a victory. acosta goes back to work. it puts cnn in a much more favorable legal position as this case goes on, if it's going to go on. >> jeff, what are we hearing, if anything from the white house? any reaction yet? >> report...

To like. we know the white house has made the argument that it does reserve the right to limit access to any reporter. now, after cnn brought this case and just today we've heard kellyanne conway and sarah sanders reiterate this point that cnn has 50 hard pass holders. hard pass are what we use to access the white house cam pus every day. the white house is making the point that jim acosta is no more special than any other reporter. today the judge said this, the fact that cnn has other pass holders does not make the harm to acosta any less irreparable. that is certainly significant, and it's ...

Campaign staff sam nunberg, and deceased gop activist peter smith, all but smith we understand have gone before the grand jury. i'm wondering where do you see this affecting potentially the mueller investigation? >> so i will say there's no reason to believe that these charges relate to the russia investigation and there's some good reason to believe they weren't. mueller has brought hacking charges against the russian individuals in d.c. if the justice department were bringing charges they'd be part of that conspiracy already brought in d.c. i suspect this relates to the original chelsea mann...

This story. a lot of speculation about potential charges. what do we actually know? >> well, chris, what happened here is a prosecutor in the eastern district of virginia was working on a motion to seal criminal charges in a totally unrelated case, and he appears, just as you said, to have cut and pasted some language from an assange file because the case law was the same, but he didn't remove assange's name. an alert researcher last night was perusing these documents and came across the name of assange in reference to criminal charges into a sealed case against assange and put it out on twitt...

Came out and basically thanked the judge and said, let's go back to work. >> due process -- we're going to listen to some sound here? is that what we were doing here? we were listening to some sound? >> i want to thank all of my colleagues in the press who supported us this week, and i want to thank the judge for the decision he made today, and let's go back to work. >> so pete, back to work, but my question is when you say due process, is this a narrow ruling? is there a question potentially for how long? >> right, so there were two big issues in this case. one is did acosta get due process, ...