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>> thank you. let's get some more on the federal court order that allowed jim to return to the white house. our chief media correspondent, brian stelter, has details. brian, how consequential is the federal judge's ruling today? >> this was a big round one win for cnn and for acosta, wolf. but it was just round one. and we don't know how many more rounds this legal fight is going to go. judge timothy j. kelly issued a temporary restraining order, which forced the white house to return acosta's hard pass. and as we just saw there, he is now back in his post where he belongs. but judge kelly s...

Critical words for white house press secretary, sarah sanders, one of the six defendants in the case. he said when sanders came out last week and said that acosta inappropriately touched a white house intern that that was likely untrue. of course, the evidence -- the video evidence contradicted sanders and it was notable to hear a trump-appointed judge point out the press secretary's falsehood. kelly said the white house never even revealed who made the decision to revoke the press pass in the first place. he said it was, quote, shrouded in mystery. the assumption, of course, is that president...

Because usually what happens is whether it's lawyers or writing the answers or actually a person who the questions are being posed to by the fbi, by the u.s. attorney, it doesn't really matter. because it's going to be weighed in the same way. so that if he is lying, if anything there is proven to be untrue, he could potentially face some kind of consequence as a result of that. >> let me turn to another interesting twist in all of this. potentially could be tied to the mueller case. wikileaks founder julian assange may be facing criminal charges here in the united states, but we only know tha...

Questions from reporters. what's the white house plan going forward? >> that's right. we don't know exactly what the white house plans to do next. there is another hearing scheduled next week that the lawyers will be back in the court talking about next steps, talking about possible hearings in the future. it does seem to me the white house may be seeking a resolution to this case, though, maybe will try to settle out of court. here's what president trump said going forward. >> if they don't listen to the rules and regulations, we'll end up back in court and win. but more importantly, we'll ju...

Define what a journalist is? >> i'll tell you how the secretary of state mike pompeo defines it. guys, listen to this. >> it is time to call out wikileaks for what it really is, a nonstate hostile intelligence service often embedded by state actors like russia. >> a nonstate hostile intelligence service is different than a journalism outfit. >> well, i mean, so says mike pompeo, then i think at the cia. >> true. >> but asang in court could say, but how do you define what i'm doing as different from what journalist ds do? i get classified information and i publish it. i have no doubt that wikil...