President Donald Trump and his team are increasing the pressure on journalists to cover the war in the Middle East the way the administration wants.

The Pentagon press secretary has held her first briefing since most nonpartisan news outlets were replaced by friendly media representatives willing to accept new rules imposed by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

Executives with CNN, The New York Times and Washington Post met with Attorney General Merrick Garland to protest the Trump-era Justice Department's efforts to seize phone and email records of journalists.

The Trump Justice Department secretly obtained the phone records of four New York Times reporters as part of a leak investigation.

CNN says the Trump administration Justice Department secretly obtained the 2017 phone records of a CNN correspondent.