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Theyre having all these cool silicon valley parties. are you going to any of those? >> i dominate those, totally. buzz feed actually made a splash here two years ago, sort of the bell of the ball a few years ago, and for the last two years, theyve had a big after party, kind of been like the anti-like were too cool for this thing. this year theyre not having a party. i think were seeing big tech companies. goingle had a party with the atlantic. >> last night i got to emcee a party put on by the ...

>> hes been going through a version of dantes ninth circle of hell. extremely painful, extremely hurtful for him and his family. i understand by the way, brian, the sort of soap opera aspects of this that makes the story is attractive and it is a big media story but in the great scheme of things how big is it? with the networks generally are losing power with the audience and, therefore, the power of any individual anchor has been reduced in the whole new digital world of buzz feed. just how imp...

All right, they call it the nerd prom. its the oscars of washington, d.c. its all taking place right now. the annual white house correspondents dinner. thousands of people packed into the room, waiting to hear from the president and from "snl" superstar cecily strong. peter hamby joined by john fabro. the top speech writer for the president. i know its a fun night, a light night, but a more serious question. in terms of the control that this administration has had over the message because of the...

>> this is the world we live in. the white house press corps gets very cranky when the president gives an interview to buzz feed or kimmel or youtube and they are not talking to the sainted white house correspondents. why is the white house doing those? >> because we want people to hear our message. move the presidents agenda forward. they talked about this in the piece, but when he did "between two ferns," the number of people that went to healthcare.gov was enormous. >> is it sometimes, though...

And drive all over them parades in the u.s. she tweeted about the need for more american isis recruits saying, so many aussies and brits here, but where are the americans? wake up you cowards. a law enforcement official says women like her play a powerful role influencing others. >> theyre very good at both drawing in other women and also egging men on basically saying im over here in syria, why are you still waiting at home? >> reporter: in an interview from syria she told buzzfeed, quote, i fe...

Russia. president obama was in a word, flabbergasted. an official at the meeting told buzzfeed, quote our reaction was, youve got to be kidding. seagal told the moscow times in 2013 that putin was one of the worlds great leaders. finally, a journey comes to an end. a dog tag lost on a massachusetts beach has been returned 70 years later to the family of the soldier. a metal detector operator found the tag after a storm and tracked down the owners family. with the help of purple hearts reunited...

Russia. president obama was in a word, flabbergasted. an official at the meeting told buzzfeed, quote our reaction was, youve got to be kidding. seagal told the moscow times in 2013 that putin was one of the worlds great leaders. finally, a journey comes to an end. a dog tag lost on a massachusetts beach has been returned 70 years later to the family of the soldier. a metal detector operator found the tag after a storm and tracked down the owners family. with the help of purple hearts reunited...

Watching what she is saying. not scary because we know shes with us. the question is how far to her left? start putting policies out there that are alarming to them. >> and secretary clinton told a small audience in norwalk, iowa yesterday, "all my grandparents came over here." buzzfeed looked into it. one was an immigrant to this nation. probably not used to having her comments dissected this wee even as secretary of state, a relatively apolitical position? >> yes. you see politicians often get...

U.s. supreme court is going to be considering gay marriage and ruling on it in june. and so what youre seeing here is hillary clinton doing a little cleanup thing and trying to get in line to where her party and more importantly the president of the united states is. mark, theres also more controversy when clinton talked about her immigrant grandparents. take a look. >> i think if we were to just go around the room there are a lot of immigrant stories. all my grandparents came over here and my g...

Substantive questions and what she would do about a whole range of issues from iran to the domestic economy will always be in the last paragraph. >> no there is some irony in that shes the celebrity candidate and thats what was used against obama back in 2008. but, no, i think no way is hillary clinton getting a free ride. and i think that because whatever ideological preferences and by as oigs there are in the press, there seems to be an unrelenting hostility. because shes so hostile to the pre...