The White House Correspondents Association says it canceled comedian Amber Ruffin from performing at its annual dinner because it wants to refocus the event on journalistic excellence.The association's announcement over the weekend made no mention of Ruffin's appearance on a podcast by the Daily Beast last week in which she referred to the Trump administration as “kind of a bunch of murderers.

Ruffin participated in a comedy bit on NBC's 'Late Night': "We have a free press so that we can be nice to Republicans at fancy dinners. That's what it says in the First Amendment."