Transcripts for CNN The White House Correspondents Dinner 20

the whca partners with the university of florida to present the collier prize for state government accountability, which is designed to encourage coverage of state government focusing on investigative and political reporting. for their series about the spectacular failures about the state bar of california to regulate and enforce the integrity of lawyers in the state this year the award goes to hariate ryan and matt ryan of the "the los angeles time." the university -- the university said the series showed the bar's failure to prevent a trial attorney from using client settlement money to buy his wife $750,000 diamond earrings and his mistress, a sitting appellate court justice, a $300,000 beachfront condo. it also showed that disbarment rates for black male lawyers are nearly four times more than

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