29m ago / 7:00 AM EDTWhite House Correspondent's Dinner faces criticism ahead of rescheduled event tonight Hundreds of journalists signed onto a new letter this week urging the White House Correspondent’s Association to use the rescheduled event tonight to hold Trump accountable for his repeated attacks against the media. “We believe it is hypocritical to celebrate the First Amendment in front of the man who relentlessly attacks it. We urge the WHCA to condemn the administration’s actions from the podium and pledge to fight all attempts by his administration to undermine this core pillar of a functioning democracy,” the new letter said. The letter published Tuesday reiterates pleas made in a letter signed by hundreds of journalists ahead of the initial dinner in April, asking the association to stand up to Trump and arguing that the dinner “cannot be business as usual.” The new letter said that since the dinner’s original date, “the administration’s attacks on journalists and press freedom have become even more egregious.” “The President’s Department of Justice has subpoenaed journalists and their phone records. President Trump has threatened to revoke licenses of broadcasters who refuse to acquiesce to his demands,” the letter said. The letter cited the Justice Department’s subpoenas of New York Times journalists, which the DOJ agreed to withdraw yesterday after facing pushback from a federal judge. It also highlighted an order from the FCC that ABC stations seek early renewals of broadcast licenses after Trump told the network to fire Jimmy Kimmel over a joke he made on-air. It also detailed numerous occasions when Trump disparaged and name called journalists, particularly women journalists, by calling more than one “stupid” and “a disgrace.” 29m ago / 7:00 AM EDTWhat to expect at tonight's rescheduled White House Correspondents' Dinner The White House Correspondents' Association is scheduled to hold a smaller version of its annual dinner tonight after the first was derailed when a gunman charged past Secret Service agents guarding its entrance. The dinner will be held at Washington's Waldorf Astoria rather than the Washington Hilton, where the dinner has been held every year since 1972. The guest list for tonight’s event will be much slimmer than the original. Between costs and space constraints — the Waldorf Astoria is home to a much smaller ballroom than the Hilton — the dinner will only host about 680 people, rather than the 2,600 guests invited to the April event.The WHCA added two awards to the docket for tonight’s event, honoring both Secret Service Police Officer Victor Gonzales, who confronted the gunman as he attempted to charge into the ballroom, and the staff of the Washington Hilton with the "President’s Award for Exceptional Service to the WHCA." Alongside the awards to Gonzales and the Hilton staff, the association will finish the program that was interrupted in April. The association said the event will include a “salute to the First Amendment in 250 years of American history, awards honoring groundbreaking reporting now, a salute to scholarship winners” as well as remarks by Trump and entertainment by mentalist Oz Pearlman.The April dinner marked the third known assassination attempt against Trump. The rescheduled event comes after the Secret Service said on Wednesday that it opened more than 10,000 investigations this year into threats against the people it protects, marking a 40% jump from the same period last year. Secret Service Director Sean Curran pointed to a volatile political climate that has reached a new level when briefing reporters this week, saying that threat numbers are “off the charts.”