The wire service’s journalists have been banned from White House events since Feb. 11 over the organization’s use of the name Gulf of Mexico.

We reserve the right to decide who gets to go into the Oval Office, and you all have the credentials to be here, including the Associated Press, who is in this briefing room today'

The wire service sued three of them for denying its reporters access to press events. The White House has objected to The A.P.’s references to the Gulf of Mexico in articles.