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Hasan minaj has agreed to host the show. and i will say, leland, as someone who is very media savvy, it is quite the optics, wouldnt you say? anyone who is tuning in to see the annual festivities of the white house dinner will also get a split screen of what is probably a very packed rally right there at the capital of pennsylvania where you are today. leland: exactly. weve already seen people lining up, liz, for this rally that kicks off about 7:30 tonight, and this is very much in keeping with...

What made it especially gratifying is that if you could somehow make the king laugh, you know, but you learn pretty quickly that if the king didnt laugh, much of the court wouldnt laugh, either. but the kings not there tonight. >> yeah. >> but he is. hes more there than if he were there. its not like hes not watching, right? >> its pretty brilliant counterprogramming by his team to -- they want that split screen. they want the opposition party all in their ball gowns. so, talk about the comedn w...

A-plus. lets bring in our panel for the evening. matt lewis, clarissa ward, mark preston, kevin man, simone sanders, and andre bauer. matt lewis, i am struck by how important this evening seems to the trump white house. you have aides tweeting about it. the presidents been hyping it all week. they are very proud of the split screen well have tonight and he wants to deliver a clear message and that is? >>that there are two americas, working class americans and then

Knows about this as the history of a former speech writer for bill clinton is president of the center for justice and also madison jessiota, a conservative -- well, we will be joined by madison. we like to tease ahead. you look at these nights. this one is different from all others largely because of the choice the president made. what do we expect? >> i think youre looking at this split screen we are watching tonight. youve got the crowd at the white house correspondents dinner that has a treme...

Of the trump administration, shadow of russia and them trying to push the agenda to get the ideas out there and sort of the split screen. >> jill, the defendant fi he defended mike flynn. he calledll of this a witch hunt. and we pressed sean spicer earlier this week whether he stood by. spicer didnt back away from that, but how difficult will it become for the president, for this administration to not completely distance itself from mike flynn? >> i mean its quite extraordinary. >> yeah. >> the ...

Prom and thrilled to go with him even if she had to follow the rules. >> no alcohol, no drugs. no booze. no drinking. well, i can handle it. i can make it through one night. jackie: how funny is that? pretty tough restrictions there. jet says grandpa made him promise to have her home. ry. brian: tuxedo shirt. doesnt like the drinking policy threw in no drugs either. jackie: said she could do it for one night but no more than that. brian: same department with the weather department no. drinking o...

100 days. it is of course logical important the president. it creates a split screen image, the president with voters, who he would say are noerd americans, and then you have a bunch of people in black ties, myself included, all dressed up at this dinner, all about white house correspondents sell will brating journalism, so two split screen. >> do you think it is a popularity contest for him in some ways? >> i think a lot of things with president trump are about popularities. about ratings. a gr...

High the ratings were on 9/11, distasteful. thats whats getting attention from the interview. its notable, as everyone talks about the presidents low approval ratings, television ratings are the other standard by which he judges himself and whats he going on this morning? hes going on deface, or actually, "face the nation," sitting down with the host he was criticizing in the interview. >> and hes giving a big speech in pennsylvania, the same evening as the white house correspondents dinner and ...

We did not have a conservative. you did not have a ronald reagan type figure saying government is the problem. you had donald trump saying we need to take care of our people. we need to protect social security. im going to protect your medicare. you just didnt have anyone out there making that sort of paul ryan argument. its no surprise to me. i think weve seen a shift in politics. >> part of that shift is whether the president will have wins as he hits day 100. instead necessarily focusing on w...

By the changes their witnessing, the sense that this vote matters more than most. i think thats left a lot of people waiting until the very last minute to work out what it is they intend to do. >> well, we can see right there in the split screen they are in line and they are voting. so its come down to this. very exciting. thank you, melissa. well talk with you again. now to george. >> lets keep the live images up. were looking at whats happening in paris. lets bring in, at the same time, domini...