A lawyer for President Donald Trump's administration argued on Thursday that Trump has broad authority over media access to the White House and asked a U.S. federal appeals court to keep a judge from lifting restrictions the White House imposed on the Associated Press.

STORY: Wire services including Reuters and Bloomberg News will no longer be guaranteed access to President Donald Trump. The decision by the White House on Tuesday comes as it moves to exert greater control over who gets to ask him questions and report on his statements in real time.

A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals seemed wary of the administration’s arguments that they must immediately intervene in the case, saying there wasn’t a