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325 likes, 37 comments – katiecouric on April 25, 2026: “Weijia Jiang, the Senior White House Correspondent at CBS News and the president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, addressed the crowded room of journalists after the president had left.

Jiang, who had been sitting on the dais next to Trump when the incident unfolded, also emphasized the public service nature of journalism, saying that “when there is an emergency, we run to the crisis, not away from it.”

“On a night when we are thinking about the freedoms in the First Amendment we must also think about how fragile they are,” she said. “Thank God everybody is safe and thank you for coming together tonight. We’ll do this again.”

📹: AP Newsroom”.

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