Sherri Wexler was an entertainment reporter with local news. She was at the White House to cover the Nobel laureate dinner, but it ended up being the night President Bartlet's veto of the estate tax repeal was overridden and two Americans were killed in a bombing while in Israel.
She asked about the victims, but C.J. Cregg could not reveal any information about them without the consent of their families due to 1974 Privacy Act, though their names had already been publicized through other means. Sherri claimed on air that C.J. couldn't speak about the victims because she had been left out of the loop, and she speculated that C.J. might have missed the news because she had been changing clothes.
C.J. embarrassed Sherri in front of the cameras by asking her questions about the veto she couldn't answer. Afterwards, Sherri confronted C.J., and C.J. called her out for making her look vapid for changing out of her ballgown in order to announce the death of two teenagers. She told Sherri she was pulling her press credentials, and she would have to call every day to see if she was allowed inside.