A journalist was escorted out of a joint press conference President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki on Monday.
The reporter, Sam Husseini, identified himself as being with the progressive publication the Nation. He was reportedly holding a sign that read, "Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty."
"They initially asked him to step out of the room, which he did peacefully," White House correspondent Jim Acosta explained during CNN's live coverage of the meeting. "They brought him back in to get his stuff, and he said the reason why I'm being removed -- talking about himself obviously -- is because he had a sign, and he held up a sign that talked about the nuclear test ban treaty."
A U.S. Secret Service agent spoke with the unidentified man, before Finnish security physically escorted him from the room minutes before the two presidents entered to begin their press conference.
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