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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 year's group of scholars, i can tell you the future of our profession is in good hands and with that i'd like to invite solarship chairs julie pace and zeek miller to the podium as we present to you this year's whca scholars. [ applause ] >> that was jeff mason, with a

[ 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 we're 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 trump's vernacular, accomplishments. him listing things he has done or tried to do or been thwarted on in the area of executive actions, but the crowds here in...

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. that's 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 has the press talking, the press mad, but he's out in a state with regular people and he's not the on...

Like democrats when it comes to some issues. >> right. >> but, you know, he didn't get elected by saying i'm flexible. he got elected by saying i'm going to do -- i do what i say i'm going to do. and the first part of the 100 days -- >> and he did that. >> but that's not -- >> don't 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 brought him to the white house is the hard core supporters who said -- who heard, who heard the,...