‘Let’s try this again’: rescheduled White House Correspondents’ Association dinner is under way – US politics live

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In May, Donald Trump dodged a question from Heinrich by instead mocking her then fiance and threatening to have him ousted from his seat for supposed disloyalty. “Her husband votes against me all the time. Can you imagine?

I don’t know what’s with him. You better ask him what’s with him,” Trump said. “He likes voting against Trump.

You know what happens with that? It doesn’t work out well. I don’t know why he does.”

Before Donald Trump speaks to the White House Correspondents’ Association, a post-dinner ceremony celebrating journalism and the first amendment began with praise for journalists in the room who covered the attack on the prior dinner in April from Weija Jiang, the WHCA president.After Jiang said “no matter how complicated or tense the relationship is between the press and the presidency, what we share is far more important than anything else and that is our duty: to serve the American people”, her remarks were met with polite applause from most of the people room, but when the camera cut to Trump, he was not clapping.California’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, has praised an agreement reached on Friday with Warner Bros and Paramount that halts their proposed merging until 1 June 2027, or until a court rules on a challenge to the merger filed by a coalition of 12 attorneys general, whichever comes first“The Warner Bros.

/ Paramount merger is expected to result in higher prices, lower content quality, and fewer movies and TV shows. The proposed $110 billion merger — the largest in Hollywood history — would combine two of Hollywood’s five major film distributors and two of the five major owners of basic cable channels, extinguishing competition between Paramount and Warner Bros., and inflicting substantial harm on movie theaters, basic cable distributors, and ultimately, audiences nationwide,” Bonta’s office said in a statement.

“Our argument against this illegal merger is straightforward: When too few corporations have too much power in markets central to American life, it makes things more expensive, and it makes things worse,” Bonta said. “Today’s agreement is great news for audiences, movie theaters, and the many people who write, build, and create the art, news, and entertainment so many of us enjoy. We are eager to continue to make our case in court and celebrate another tremendous win in our effort to ensure this unlawful merger never sees the light of day.”

The rescheduled White House correspondents’ dinner is under way at the Waldorf Astoria in Washington DC, three months after the original event in April was interrupted by gunf