‘West Wing’ star Allison Janney returns to White House podium

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Allison Janney, who played C.J. Cregg on the “West Wing,” momentarily reprised her TV role as presidential secretary on Friday by taking the podium during the daily briefing from actual press secretary, Josh Earnest.

Janney briefly took the helm to plug her pet cause that has also become a focus of the Obama administration, opioid abuse.

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