of weeks. and as you heard there, he's not planning on going. the question is that the right decision? because back through history, this is one time a year the press corps gets together with the president. they let their hair down as you said, ed, you poke fun at each other. everyone relaxes and enjoys that night. but the relationship is very different now with president trump and the media. unlike we have ever seen before. pete: ed, how do your colleagues in the media feel. ed: people up in arms because they wish the president would go. i believe he is the first president since ronald reagan when he was shot in 1981 which obviously was a good excuse not to go to a press dinner. it's been a bipartisan, nonpartisan tradition in a way i wish the president would just go. maybe next year he will. by the way, let me just say, the dinner it's never mentioned the dinner raises. i used to be president of it. i should disclose. abby: that's right. ed: raises thousands of dollars of scholarships for young journalists. there is a good cause there. i understand on the other hand the press corps by and