"Evan is safe and calm, and continues to act with professionalism and integrity that he brings to his work each day," NewsNation D.C. bureau chief Mike Viqueira said in a statement. "As you see from the videos, he was doing his job - what hundreds of journalists do without incident - reporting to the public o the matter of urgent, critical interest to our audience."

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Viqueira said Lambert was charged with "criminal trespass and disorderly conduct." 

DeWine denounced the arrest during the press conference, saying it was "wrong" for Lambert to be told to stop reporting and asserting he did not authorize law enforcement to apprehend the NewsNation correspondent.

"I'm certainly very, very sorry that that happened," DeWine told reporters. "[Lambert] had every right to be reporting and do what they do every single day."

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Additional footage showed tensions boiling between Lambert and law enforcement in the back of the room as the press conference was being held.

"I got arrested because I was trying to do a live report about what people need to know," Lambert told a bystander who asked what happened. 

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Viqueira blasted the arrest while speaking on-air with a NewsNation anchor.

"The idea that Evan appears to be singled out here as his boss, as his colleague, as a fellow journalist is really infuriating," Viqueira said. 

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Lambert joined NewsNation in 2021 after four years as a reporter at the local affiliate Fox 5 in Washington D.C. 

NewsNation was launched in 2020 by Nexstar Media Group, taking over the channel formerly known as WGN America.