After Saturday's Knoxville trip, wires confirm CNN never flew Air Force One while Real America's Voice sat in. Judge Timothy Kelly's TRO restoring hard passes still does not expressly cover AF1 pool seats.

President Trump’s Saturday trip to a Tennessee-Texas college football game in Knoxville proceeded without CNN in the Air Force One television pool seat, NBC News, the Associated Press via the Philadelphia Inquirer, and the BBC reported. White House guidance Friday night removed CNN from the pool list and seated Real America’s Voice, which is not a traditional network pool member.

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly’s temporary restraining order earlier in the week restored hard-pass credentials for CNN, MS NOW, and Politico for 14 days after finding the government’s national-security rationale lacked support. The order focused on White House grounds access and did not expressly litigate Air Force One or rotating TV-pool duties, leaving the administration room to exclude CNN from the jet.

A Saturday pool report noted there was no traditional TV pool for the travel even as Real America’s Voice said it would make feeds available. Other pool networks had previously declined solidarity fills when CNN was banned from grounds. Accounts agree CNN did not fly and that the TRO’s hard-pass restore remains in force; they diverge on whether plaintiffs will file an emergency motion expanding the order to pool/AF1 access before the TRO window closes.

Judge Timothy Kelly’s temporary restraining order restoring hard passes for certain outlets sits behind the Air Force One pool fight: press-freedom advocates argue travel duties should follow the badge order, while the White House has treated AF1 seating as a separate operational call.

NBC, AP, and the BBC agree CNN was kept off the Knoxville Air Force One flight while Kelly’s hard-pass TRO remains limited to grounds access. Whether courts will extend the TRO to AF1/pool seats — and how long Real America’s Voice fills travel slots — is still contested.