The publicly-funded network is claiming the President violated the First Amendment.
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00:00PBS is officially filing a First Amendment lawsuit against President Donald Trump.
00:04The suit alleges that Trump violated the Constitution when he signed an executive order seeking
00:08to end federal funding to the network.
00:10Now the network is asking the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. to prevent the president
00:14from following through.
00:16When Trump signed the order at the beginning of May, PBS CEO Paula Kerger said,
00:19"...the president's blatantly unlawful executive order issued in the middle of the night threatens
00:24our ability to serve the American public with educational programming, as we have for the
00:28past 50-plus years."
00:30The lawsuit alleges that the president's order makes no attempt to hide the fact that it is
00:33cutting off the flow of funds to PBS because of the content of PBS programming and out of
00:38a desire to alter the content of speech.
00:40However, PBS isn't alone in its battle.
00:43Trump also called out federally funded NPR, and the radio network filed a lawsuit of its
00:47own.
00:48That'll do it for your Daily Briefing.
00:49From New York City, I'm Kelsey Barbario with The Street.