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Just as woodward and bernstein inspired hundreds of journalists, we hope the the work the white house press core is doing will inspire the next. as the video so beautifully showed, scholarships matter and having spent some time already with this years group of scholars, i can tell you the future of our profession is in good hands and with that id like to invite solarship chairs julie pace and zeek miller to the podium as we present to you this years whca scholars. [ applause ] >> that was jeff m...

[ applause ] journalists like those students witnessed and impacted history with the work they do and that is same for those of us in the white house press core. one way we record that history is through poll reports wrilten by dedicated print journalists and were proud to introduce vice president margaret talf who has spearheaded this project with major garret. to tell us more. >> thank you.

The washington press core, a press screen that he and his aids have build up tonight which obviously the television net works and many reporters have played into it. we are showing both events. both events are traditionally news worthy when the president speaks and the annual dinner and this coverage is unlike most others. the first absence of a president since 1981. the speech also notable for what sounded like a long list of in donald trumps vernacular, accomplishments. him listing things he h...

Being out there with the people who elected him to be president of the united states than he does in his first 100 days in washington. thats there to drain the swamp, not to become part of the swamp. i think he made a bold statement being there in pennsylvania, a state that nobody expected him to win, instead of being in washington at the correspondents dinner. >> john, what do you think about that point because on the politics of it and politics does involve symbolism, donald trump yet again ha...

Like democrats when it comes to some issues. >> right. >> but, you know, he didnt get elected by saying im flexible. he got elected by saying im going to do -- i do what i say im going to do. and the first part of the 100 days -- >> and he did that. >> but thats not -- >> dont you think some people heard that, though? >> i think some people heard that, but what was different, what separated him from jeb bush and marco rubio and everybody else in the republican field, and what i actually think br...

People. >> you cant use the word fully trans parent if there are exceptions to people who would be interested in the logs. oh, no. well only tell you the people that we know arent controversial. >> i myself spent plenty of times arbitrating a lot of discussions about peep with the white house press core. >> im apparently two and a half minutes heavy. im in trouble. coming up, afghanistan, aftershocks of what we know and what we dont. and later, life imitating art imitating life. mandy can patnik...

Know, sort of stumbled into this job. and all of us in the white house press core, we were, you know, taken aback by this. after the press conference ended, that was the first thing everyone said, did he really say that? we went back and looked at the transcript. was that what just happened? he issued a statement shortly after that didnt really apologize, that tried to back walk the statement. it wasnt until about four hours later that he actually came on cnn and gave a real clear, im sorry, i a...

It was a one of the cardinal rules of communication, whether you are a press communication director or anything else, never make a comparison to the holocaust. it never goes well. it will go down in the anals as the most outrageous ones. i give sean credit for apologizing. its hard to put the horse back in the barn here. >> meaning what, dan? you think his days are numbered? >> look. i dont know. you cant never really tell whats happening inside the trump white house. i think his days as an effe...

Much attention, people are interested. the american public is interested in how the relationship with the press and white house continues. theyre interested to see how sean answers the tough questions that hes getting from the white house press core. >> do you trust what he tells you now? >> i think its important to listen carefully and to fact check this administration like we would for any administration. >> so theyre no different from any other administration? >> im just not -- im not going t...

Really move the ball forward on, you know, legislative items that has to do with this presidents ageneral ad yet they have been overshadowed constantly by these investigations that are months away from reaching completion. this has been an issue that has just devastated this white house from the moment the president trump entered office. i really think it would be a key and important moment for him to get out in front of the white house press core, in front of the cameras and to field our questi...