Next. Tonight, a celebration of the First Amendment and the importance of a free press in the United States. Also, jokes, lots of jokes. All the most powerful people in washington except us all in the same room and about to be roasted by the president and a comedian. The white house Correspondents Dinner starts now. Members of the White House Correspondents association, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, here i am. F announcer fora time honore tradition bringing togethers washingtons people and powerful laughs. I invited luther, my anger translator, to join me here tonight. I mean, really. What is he saying . Tonight, roy wood jr. Takes aim at the politicians and President Biden himself will get in on the fun. I told my grandkids and Pete Buttigieg they could stay up late and watch this show tonight. From roasts. Donald trump has been saying he will run for president as a republican. I just assumed he was running as a joke. To jokes. Reality has a wellknown liberal bias. To mi
sterling, but that s not what this is about. what you re really doing here in this ballroom is funding scholarships for the next jen ration of the fourth estate. over the last ten over the last ten years the whca has given out nearly $1.1 million in scholarships and leveraged another 1 million in additional aid to aspiring journalists like julia benbrook. in 2021 while a student at northwestern university she won our debra orin scholarship. tonight she is here as a washington correspondent for spectrum news. yesterday we had 28 of this year s scholarship recipients meeting white house