john legend, chrissy teigen. hello. you too. i'll come back later. these are vanderpump and gene sperling. but that's not what this is about. what you are really doing here in this ballroom is funding scholarships for the next generation 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 1 million, an additional aid to aspiring journalists like julia benbrook and 2021, while student at northwestern university, she won our deborah orrin scholarship. tonight she is here as a washington correspondent for spectrum news. yesterday, we had 28 of this year's scholarship meeting. white house correspondents jane from cbs, zoltan kanno, yang's from the new york times, and sabrina siddiqui of the wall street journal. they heard from minnesota senator amy klobuchar, a strong supporter of press freedom, and the daughter, a journalist. and they got an on the record briefing from cory's on, pierre. sitting in the seats, we hope these students will someday occupy. the gonzalez th