the first president in more than three decades to skip the annual gathering. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome jeff mason. [applause] i hope you enjoyed your dinner. we are going to kick start the program now with a video. so you better sit down if you want to catch it. there is a lot to celebrate, because journalism is such an important part of the freedoms we continue to enjoy in this country, and many other countries wish they had the benefits we had because our founding fathers were so brilliant with the first amendment. thomas jefferson famously said he would have a press without a government than a government without the press. when the press conference the government, that means the system is working. when you don t acknowledge at fundamental role that the press plays and protect it that is the role of the press secretary, to protect the role against those that are fuming at whatever has been reported. if you don t protect that relationship, we are los
potentially even repeal some other all of those rules. from the internet s inception until the day the rules were passed the internet was free and open. there wasn t a problem. as the chairman said there was no controlled internet with i.s.p. s or anybody else interfering with people s ability to pose content or reuse the applications or look at the content of their choice. watch the communicators, tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span2. comedy central s sinage provided the entertainment at the dinner. before the house gavels back in we ll look at some of his performance from saturday night. [applause] thank you, wow. oh, my god. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the series finale of the white dinner.rrespondents oh, man. my name is hassan minaj. or as i ll be known in a few weeks number 830287. who would have thought? with everything going on in the country right now to be standing on this stage, for the ninth year in a row, baby. we had eight years of barack. i see you, wh
now. probably yours. i don t kn you leave [ bleep ] here all she turns around to walk out the door and that is when he finally reveals it s all a prank. i just want to ask you to smile for the camera because this is all just me messing around. ha-ha. that is so funny. i am so mad right now. too far. too far. i hate you. ta ta for now. we ll see you on the next brand new episode of rtm. weather brought to you by united health care. nothing more important than your health. so if you re on medicare or will be soon, you may want more than parts a and b here s why. medicare only covers about 80% of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. you might want to consider an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like any medicare supplement insurance plan, these help pick up some of what medicare doesn t pay. and, these plans let you choose any doctor or hospital that accepts medicare patients. you could sta
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