Bad the 47 called mitt romney to apologize. In 2008 my slogan was yes, we can. In 2013 my slogan was controlaltdelete. The dinner was the president s chance to turn the tables on washington to get in jabs at the press. Some of his political opponents, too. Washington seems more dysfunctional than ever. Gridlock has gotten so bad in this town you have to wonder, what did we do to piss off Chris Christie so bad . Of course its an election year. The midterms are on everyones mind including the president who wondered what role hell play as the campaign unfolds. Of course now that its 2014, washington is obsessed on the midterms. Folks are are saying with my sagging poll numbers my fellow democrats dont really want me campaigning with them. Kwo think thats true although i did notice the other day sasha needed a speaker at career day and she invited bill clinton. Obamas biggest laugh of the night came when he turn theed attention to the biggest thorns in his side, speaker john boehner. Im feeling sorry for the speaker of the house as well. These days the house of republicans actually gives john boehner a harderer tile than they give me. Which means orange really is the new black. The night is about Washington Society mixing with big stars from hollywood. Some of whom portrayed d. C. Figures and get to partake in a prespeech video. We can write any headline we want . Knock yourself out. Go to it. The headline id like to write is selena myers sworn in as president but all in good time. Yes. We can all look directly into the camcamera, kevin. The point is, youre not supposed to. Then there is the comedian, the headline entertainer whose job is to roast pretty much everyone in attendance. This year it was joel mchale from community, host of the soup on e he wasted no time hitting the president where it hurts. Its amazing you can still bring it with fresh hilarious material. My favorite bit was when you said youd close the detention facility at guantanamo bay. That was a classic. That was hilarious. Last night was a big an sersry for the White House Correspondents association. It was the 100th anniversary. A milestone. President obama didnt overlook it. Thauz this is the 100th anniversary of the association i recorded an additional brief video thanking all of you for your hard work. Can we run the video . Con whats going on . I was told this would work. Does anybody know how to fix this . Oh, thank you. You got it . I got this. I see it all the time. There. Thats Kathleen Sebelius making a cameo. Here to talk about the speech, what worked, what didnt we have montana governor brian shh wietser an nbc contributor. April ryan, White House Correspondent and Washington Bureau chief with the American Urban Radio Network and secretary of the White House Correspondents association. She was up there on stage with the first lady and joel mchale. Well ask about that. Also Michael Steele, formerer chairman of the rnc. Welcome. I dont know how late everybody was out . Too late. You seem in good spirits. Im watching on tv. I keep seeing shots of you up there. You were presenting awards with the first lady. What was the president talking with you about before going up there . We talked about a lot of things. Kids, so many different things. He did the tell me that Chris Christie was going to get it. It was interesting to hear the room. Especially when you heard the crowd go ooh and he said the roller coaster situation. Last night washington showed up at the anniversary dinner. In washington we are politically correct. Out in the world, twitter was abuzz with joel mchales quotes, comments, his speech. Everyone in the room said, oh, he went there. You didnt want to laugh. I was on stage and i are really didnt there were things i cringed on. Sometimes we have a right to be. But at the same time there are people outside of washington. The young people liked his skit. We were talking about it on the show yesterday. The channel for a comedian. You dont know exactly where the line is. It exists. He had a squoek about the kardashians. I gasp ed when i heard it. Otherses seemed it was very blue. Did you like that . There were a couple of jokes like that. The president s line about, you know, i want to tell you about negroes. It was perfect. It linked together what we as a country have been talking about. It brought in cliven bundq. It was a nice bow. I didnt mind him going there. People are are uptight. They need to loosen the corset. It was fun to relax in the moment and enjoy. Thats supposed to be whether the president is republicans or democrats, its the night when the Opposition Party cannot take everything literally. I saw conservative websites immediately jumping on some of the obama stuff, joel mchale stuff. Do you think most will . Do you know what was an interesting transition for me to watch last night having had the fortune of going to a couple of dinners . Fox wasnt the dominant target. Right. The conservative thing was not the dominant piece of what the president had to go after. What squojoel had to go after. It goes to the point that cnn was in the bulls eye last night with pretty stinging comments. Cspan. [ speaking smul t ining at the ] you cannot make it all about me in that moment. Its not your part p of a narrative that the comedian or the president is going to talk about. Just roll with it. I have been in the room when the president goes, hey, is Michael Steele here . Yeah, whats up . Youre like, okay. S it was equal opportunity. How about the line about if hillary is the next president shell work for 30 less. That was from joel mchale. This clip, speaking of hillary, and the president s routine, lets play this one. Its a long time between now and 2016. Anything can happen. You may have heard the other day hillary had to dodge a flying shoe at a press conference. [ laughter ] i dont want to read too much into it. We played the joke with obama saying sasha asked to take bill clinton to school. I feel like if there is any sub text joe biden might be miffed after last night. The point of the jokes is like, all right, the Obama Administration will come to an end. Hillary is next. Forget about the vice president. There is truth in jokes. Hillary clinton was able to shine a little bit this there. Also joe biden. We saw a sexy joe biden. Did we . I think so. The video . Yeah. Joe are biden wasnt at the dinner. He doesnt come. He doesnt like taking his weekends to come to the dinner which he should. We are pushing for him to come next year, i guess. We saw a joe biden that was confident, cocky, kind of obamaclintonesque. Getting a tattoo, driving a fast car with the with aviator glasses. In the middle of the dinner we were talking about joe biden and aviators. I said i cant get around a sexy joe biden. Thats the first perception. The look of a candidate. How does he appeal to you . Thats the first thing. Hillary clinton with the shoe. You know, its a friendly adversarial relationship right now. When they get in the trenches it will be real. The first time the term sexy joe biden has been on the show. The elite in washington, d. C. Attack joe biden and the more popular he is across the country. Hes the regular guy. Thats the kind of people that people vote for. If people saw the video last night, biden came off well in that, i thought. Absolutely. I was very impressed. The whole thing with the two veeps was just great with the yellow sports car and the glasses, the whole thing. He was just joe cool. Exactly. It was something everyone could relate to. To your point about the twitter field, it did light up. People like to see that side joe. He was laughing, having fun a little bit. Peel like that. What does it mean in the broader scheme of washington with politics . Probably not much. As a narrative about the man. Exactly. Its good. They are trying to change him. Hes a man who we perceive as a man who will put his foot in his mouth. Now you want to ride in the car, go to the Tattoo Parlor im not advocating tattoos. You were up this there on stage and did you get a sense afterwards either from the president or from joel mchale how they felt they had done . Could you pick up a sense of that . With joel i said, you are did a great job. The postmortem is now set in. Well see what everyone says. We started getting it afterwards. With we found out about the blow ups on twitter. A lot of of the room wasnt necessarily clapping, applauding, gut wrenching laughter. Its about what you are say tonight will make or break your career. He made a point to the twitter world and people watching. So it was a win for joel mchale. He was tentative to begin with. He was 8020 reading his notes. He finished strong. It was only 20 looking at the notes. While we are talking about game, the republicans said barack obama is a cold fish and he can deliver a good speech with a teleprompter. His timing was great. The jokes were good. His facial expression killed it. He was pretty dang good. There might have been a teleprompter malfunction with the slide show. He carried on right through it smoothly. I think that was a setup. Maybe for the end. I have to squeeze in a break. We talked about joel mchale. We havent talked about the barbs directed at Chris Christie. Yeah. I will be the first to say some of it wasnt fair. Well sow you his reaction to it when we come back. Alright, that should just about do it. Excuse me, what are you doing . Uh, well we are fine tuning these small cells that improve coverage, capacity and quality of the network. It means youll be able t post from the breakroom. Great did it hurt . When you fell from heaven awkward laugh . A little. laughs im sorry, i have to go. 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Otherwise all the jokes were about his weight. Im curious if thats still fun question. Chris christie responded after the dinner what do you think of this . This is from the washington post. He said, listen, beerks its better to be relevant than i ignored. That was christies response. What did you make of of the jokes joel mchale directed at christie . The size jokes were over the to top. What you wear, what you said, what your policy is, maybe hit it one time. He hit it too many times. A lot of america is going to say, well, to whatever extent america watches, he went over the top on his weight. At this point we have been hearing the jokes for five years. When did doh they stop . Its like the bush dumb jokes. Theyre still funny, by the way. Is christie right . I guess this is what youve got to say. Is it better to be the butt of the joke at Something Like this than not to be mentioned at all . Yeah. Absolutely it is. From the standpoint of, you know, as long as you get my name spelled right, the mindset and publications that talk about youmeyo you. The same is true. You are at the this dinner, being talked about. Youre part of the conversation. Even though its stinging and hurts a little bit maybe. To your point, i still think for Chris Christie, yeah, he was laughing. He was nodding along. He got the joke. So did donald trump. Look what happened when donald trump he seemed so upset when it was happening. He did. He was sitting there like mmhmm, okay, i got you. A couple weeks later he left the the supposed potential the fake president ial campaign. It was a punch line. He was never a serious candidate. He never will be. Obama knocked him out of the park with that. Chris christie who is already having trouble with bridgegate out of the park. To see him laughing, he had to say that. But for someone to say, youre a glutt glutton for punishment. That pregnant pause told it all. Im glad he was able to laugh for the cameras. Who knows how he felt inside and how everyone else in this community of ours there was the line of strap yourself in, Chris Christie. Oh, you need an extendabelt. April talked about how there is an air of political correctness. You were saying you know as an audience member, a prominent figure, the cam are are a pans the audience. I was watching and i saw you two or three times. You as an audience member think do i want to be caught laughing at this joke. We were talking about the break about the kardashians beg republican because they do something with black people. I couldnt laugh at that one. Michael laughed. I didnt. It was insensitive, i thought. I was stoic on that one. You have to be careful. Sometimes its not what you say. People perceive that you think something is funny thats really offensive. Do you the censor yourself as an audience member . Its a tricky situation. Its like what the Supreme Court said about pornography. You know it when you see it in the sense that im offended when im offended. Something you may find hilarious im offended by and vice versa. Thats what the might is about. To aprils original point there is an air of properness thats officially washington. We are all gathered here. Underneath that is this grinding kind of drive you either tap into it or you dont. Guys like me tap into it. Yeah. The kardashian joke, i found it humorous. April, you hit it when we talked earlier and you said, darryl issa didnt look happy. He didnt get mentioned. He was sitting there like i found it interesting. He didnt find it fun question at all. Some of the republicans were laughing like Chris Christie. Politicians were laughing. He was stoic. When youre the politician being made fun of and youre many the room you have no choice. He was planning the next investigation. Hes busy. April, i want to ask you there was the White House Correspondents dinner a serious part of the dinner, too. Not everybody saw it who was watching. S it was a land park event in terms oh of diversity. Can we talk about that for a few minutes . 100 years, you look at the past, the present and the future. There was a situation 70 years ago when the first africanamerican to walk into the white house was told he couldnt cover the press conference. He couldnt come to the dinner. His name was harry mcalvin. He was the first africanamerican to come to the white house to cover. He was never allowed into the membership of the whca. He never made a dinner. Last night his son was there. We gave him a cord post humsly. Its touching as someone who covered the white house for years in a white male dominated town its p not easy. Nancy pelosi said for women its like chipping the marble. Not the glass. You can shatter glass. The marble is hard. Imagine being a minority in this town. At that time. Because of the history and we want to talk about the health care, we created a oneyear award harry s. Mcalpin apart for a student from philadelphia, pennsylvania. We want to correct the wrongs. A hundred years ago it was white men. Now we are men, women, minorities, asians, latinos, africanamericans. We have foreign press. Weve got sexually oriented press. We are the first line that questions the president. Its not just about what a white male thinks. Im not singling you out. It was emotional watching this young man come up to receive the award the in honor of this reporter. Hes embraced by the africanamerican first family. It was an emotional moment. We always think of thises as fun and games but it was a serious moment. It was touching. It was a white dude, fdr, who invited him in much to the chagrin of all of the white guys who didnt allow him in the club. It took the higher thinking of the president of the United States. I think the president invited him in and regretted it because he asked tough questions. My thanks to april. Raise the roof. I know. I didnt know what you were doing. Behind me, i thought id like to thank april. And so say another schism is rearing its head. Well talk about it and tell you what it is ahead. Sop stop. So we came to washington for the Correspondents Dinner but the real reason was to sit down with nancy pelosi for an interview. News was just breaking about John Boehners announcement that House Republicans would establish a committee to investigate benghazi. I havent been informed of his plans to establish such a commission, is it . Benghazi is a r