The numbers are on the bottom of your screen. Good sunday morning to you after a big saturday night here in washington. Actually several days of action and activity leading up to this dinner. Well start things off with a tease from the president talking about how he has aged in his view over the years. Eight years ago, i was a young man. Full of idealism and vigor. And look at me now. I am gray, grizzled, just counting down the days until my death panel. Hillary once questioned whether i would be ready for a 3 00 a. M. Phone call. No im awake anyway because ve got to go to the bathroom. m up. In fact, somebody recently said to me, mr. President , you are so yesterday. Justin trudeo has completely replaced you. Hes so handsome, hes so charming. Hes the future. And i said justin, just give it rest. I resented that. But meanwhile, michelle has not ged a day. The only way you can date her in photos is by looking at me. Take a look. Here we are in 2008. Here we are a few years later. And this one is from two weeks ago. And exactly who was in attendance last night . Politico reminds us that its in addition to the president , Vice President joe biden, president ial candidate Bernie Sanders. Former representative Gabrielle Giffords and her husband, former white House SpeakerNewt Gingrich and his wife. Movie star attendees included gold blum. Jeff star wars lumenarey Carrie Fisher who was accompanied by her pet French Bulldog gary. Just some of the names in attendance last night. Lets go to calls. Rob up first in new york city. Caller good morning. Thank you for cspan. Host what do you think of all this . Caller i was struck by the omedian. He was ok. But he wasnt quite as poignant as and funny as some of the former hosts of this event. But actually i thought he was ind of right on in his maybe intentioned or unintentioned criticism of all these different newscastors who dont really dig into and report on the news. Get this fluff from cnn and from fox and foxs fluff is different than cnns fluff. Host so to what extent do dinners like this lead to the perception that you have . Caller i had the perception obviously as a thinking person all along. But to hear will moore sort of o and make these comecal remarks, which are comedy has truth, is really to me was one of the interesting thing that is come out of it. Nothing is going to change. Theyre forprofit news. But its ashame that we have to go beyond these socalled news stations to try to find the news. That is why people are tuning in to your show and bbc. And you have to reach to get real news about whats going on in the world and then whats going on in government and what it means. Host thank you for your point. He did mention larry will mor the Comedy Central nightly show host who was there last night giving the comedic speech after the president was finished. So the president talked about how hes aged over the years. Larry in this short piece talks about the same thing. You look terrible, mr. President. No, you do. Look at you. Your hair is so white it tried o punch me at a trump rally. The president s is so white he keeps saying all lives matter. All right, fine. Fine. I get it. No. You came in here looking like denzel. Now youre going out looking like grady from sanford and son. All im saying is that in less han eight years you bust two timehonored stereo types. Black goes crack. And apparently once you go black apparently we are going back. Thanks, ben carson. Ive got to be careful picking on you though, mr. President. A couple years ago during this dinner you were like killing osama bin laden. Who are you killing tonight . Host lots more from the dinner coming up, including more of your calls. Heres a little of the facebook commentary on the beltway culture. Nook comments coming in this morning. Jean is on the line from denver. What do you think . Caller for one thing i agree with the last caller, bbc and cspanners as far as getting a true look at things. But i so much admire the president and so much im going to miss his humor. I admire him for staying his course. Host was there a mome last night that caught your attention in particular . Caller oh, you know, thats hard to say. Because a lot of them were good. Ut his particular speech was spectacular. I was agast at the number of people who were there and all the clinking of glasses. Its such a big event thats really pretty amazing. But i do, i can understand why hes tired and why michelle yeah. When he mentioned michelle trying to jump over the white house fence, i was, i thought that was good. If a host our earlier caller said this could get in the way of solid news coverage. Caller you mean, does the event get in the way . Host events like this. Are they a little too close together in the same room. Caller well, im not sure about that. But i do think that, you know, most of the coverage that we see is biased one way or the other and you have to kind of thats why i like cspan and bbc, because i think theyre a little more well, cspan even in is more their coverage. We can see everything thats actually going on rather than as somebodys view of whats going on. Host thank you. I want to remind viewers of the phone numbers. Host White House Correspondent for the hill, good morning, jordan. Host caller good. How are you . Host good. What was the mood like in the ball room . How would you describe things . Guest it was pretty loose. I think the president wanted to go after everybody. He was going after Hillary Clinton, the person who could succeed him in the white house next year, donald trump, ted cruz, and the media. So he was letting zingers fly and i think the audience liked it. There were some moments, it being president obamas final dinner. But i think all and all people had a good time and some people were able to laugh themselves. Host was there a particular line of the night that made everybody especially full of laughter . Guest well, i think the end of the president s speech when he took a page out of kobe bryants retirement speech when he just got up and said, obama out, and literally dropped the mic on to the ground. That got people pretty excited. That was pretty excited and got a lot of laughs. Host we chose to start the program with that. How about the president ial campaign . How much time did the speaker spend on the campaign and what were your take aways . Guest well, everyone in the audience was waiting to go after donald trump everyone remembers 2011 when he skewrd trump at length. Trump was not there last night. But obama took a few shots at his expense saying i want to know where the donald is right now. And he actually took some shots at Hillary Clinton too unexpectedly. Sort of casting her as this clueless old andrews doesnt know how to use social media. He did make a funny joke about i dont know who is going to be in the white house. Who could she be . Maybe her inevitable status as the democrat nominee. So he did spend quite a lot of time on the president ial campaign. And so did larry. Ted cruz being the zode yak killer. So no punches pulled. Host do you see anything changing about this dinner in the future . Guest its hard to say. I know theres been a lot of talk about how many celebrities and business types were in the room rather than journalists. Look, i think it is a legitimate issue. It is a legitimate issue to discuss. But its going to take a change from media organizations and how they see the dinner and how they want to use the guest list if it does change. Personally im not sure if i see those kind of changes coming in the near future. But you never know. Host thanks for your time this morning. Appreciate it. Guest thank you. Host well move back to your calls. Caller good morning. I would like to say that the dinner was very well presented. Obama was tastefully funny and surely he understands commeppedy. Especially the movie session with john boehner. All i can say is those tears were pricely. And i would say that will mors place put him in a difficult place. Its hard to criticize the media. From what their donors or sponsors are really will allow them to do at their expense. However, he did strike a nerve when he talked and criticized the media. They didnt take it well. It was almost like a Death Chamber in there. Very, very quiet. But we are concerned as citizens because the media is important. Obamas last statements were just on point. They are needed to keep us informed. And we feel as though theyre being cut to the point where theres no investigative reporting. And that we are only told what the pundits want us to tell. And they never really ask the citizens hardly how do you feel . With the exception of the cspan and opportunities like this. But instead of asking the people and the protesters what are your concerns . Theyll have a News Reporter saying they are concerned about unrest in america. And im saying how do you know that until you talk to them . So getting back to basics is very important because we are very leery of the news media, period, now in america. Host thank you for calling. A piece where we talk with patrick the producer of something called nerd prom. Its a film about the White House Correspondents dinner. He talked about the dinner and his perceptions. Heres a look. I think what it is, somebody kind of mentioned in my movie its not that the dinner contributes to the coseieness it just reveals it. Because theres such a spotlight on the debber, i think that if you are somebody people inside the beltway kind of look at what they see is this how business gets done n this town and to a certain extent thats somewhat true. People outside the beltway look at this dinner and see everybody kind of patting themselves on the back and having drink taking selfies with each other and it looks very clubby. I think tom brokaw in 2011 is one of the first real prominent people to kind of defect. He had gone to his own dinners and say that, if you are somebody outside the beltway and you look at this red carpet and you look at ice sculpturs and parties at the embassy and the competition for guests, this is a town thats supposed to be about a town thats more than that. Not every town in america is supposed to be about civic mindedness but you see it has a unique status where its supposed to be about other people and not ourselves. When you couple that with the idea that reporters having quite low approval ratings, politicians, washington, d. C. Writ large is kind of like the laughing stock of the country if a lot of ways and yet us every year is us patting ourselves on the back. People might look at that and say im not sure why you feel selfcelebration and people dont look too favorably on our town. I think that contributes to it. Host we will read a little pushback from the other side of that argument but lets get bonnie from georgia. Good morning. Aller good morning. Im a little disgusted with this correspond nts dinner. Washington has never been more out of touch with people of this country than they are right now. And with obamas last statement, it just proves what he he is nothing but a chicago politician which is what he was the day he went into office and hat he is today. Host why do you say that . Guest every aspect of this administration has proven that. Host anything else . Guest ia. I cant wait to see donald trump in the white house. Host all right. Lets hear from barbara, connecticut. Good morning. Caller good morning. First i dont agree with just said. T bonnie are you there . Host were listening. Caller i dont agree with anything that bonnie just said. Naturally she would be from georgia and naturally she would be for donald trump because he is so racist and sickening. My president is hardly a thug. He is the best president that weve ever had and hes very fair and even minded and i love president obama. Now, getting to this dinner. I enjoyed every minute of it watching it from cspan. I started at 6 00 and followed it through to the very, very end. I love it. This morning i played it again because i had it recorded. But the comedian what i enjoyed so much about him is that he called out morning joe. Every morning i watch morning joe and he is has gotten so sickening him and mika. I cant even believe shes democrat. Yes, they were so far up trumps behind every morning every morning giving him free press and congratulating him and saying he was doing so good so good. And thats why he got so elevated because he was on that show every single morning. I couldnt it was sickening. So im glad they called him out last night. And im calling him out this morning and saying joe you need to knock it off and stop elevating trump. That is so awful what youre doing. And what you have done. And when the comedian called him out and said that and chris christie, oh, my goodness he is so ridiculous always standing there looking so pitful and fat right behind trump trying to get some little kudos. So thank you. Im so glad. I am ecstatic that they called him out. I dont agree with anything that bonnie said about the the president. Host thanks for calling. Robert writes on twitter. Heres a little bit more from the dinner. The president talking about Vice President biden and the media. Since last year i do have more appreciation for those who have been with me on this amazing ride. Like one of our finest Public Servants joe biden. God bless him. I love that guy. I love joe biden. I really do. I want to thank him for his friendship, for his counsel, for always giving it to me straight. For not shooting anybody in the ace. Hank you, joe. Also, lets give it up for our ost larry. Also known as one of the two black guys who is not john stewart. Youre the South African guy. Right . I love him. I love larry. And his parents are here, who are from evanston, which is a great town. I also would like to acknowledge some of the Award Winning reporters that we have with us here tonight. Rachel. Mark. Leah. Thank you all for everything that youve done. Im just joking. As you know, spotlight is a film, a movie about investigative journalists with the resources and the autonomy to chase down the truth and hold the powerful accountable. Thats fantasy film best fantasy film since star wars. I love you. That was maybe a cheap shot. I understand the News Business is tough these days. It keeps changing all the time. Every year its this dinner somebody makes a joke about changing the media landscape. Every year the Washington Post laughs a little less hard. Host and moving on with your calls. Your view of the beltway culture following last nights big event in washington. Several days of events leading up to the White House Correspondents Association Dinner, about 27 o 00 people there. Each ticket cost 300. Good morning. Caller good morning. I just had a quick comment about not just this dinner but the entire complex of the Democratic Party today. I was a democrat. I am calling on a democratic line because ive always voted democratic. But i am switching to republican. Host howdom . Caller im in chicago and im very disappointed with the president. As a matter of fact. I think he has done a very poor job. Host is there something specific youre thinking about . Caller jobs. The economy. Jobs. The economy. You know, its the economy, stupid. Nothing else matters. And all this glitz and all this stuff isnt going to change anything. And everybody is in on it. Im just disgusted with everything. Im angry. Im not voting for trump because im angry. I think he is on to something. And by the way, i am african american. Host who do you think you will be voting for then . Caller i think that this is where everybody is clueless. Everybody thinks that all African Americans are democratic and they really i think this election is going to be different because i have friends, i have relatives, everybody saying the same thing. Theyre sick of the Democratic Party. And it seems like all of the black people who are in the Democratic Party, the congresspeople, the legislators, everybody is in on it. You know . Theyre in on the game. The game. Its all about the money. Host thanks for calling. Taking that comment a step further is north of boston at twitter. Conner what do you make of this type event and dinner and the overall beltway culture . Caller i wasnt going to watch the show but i tuned in accidentally. But i must say i was a democrat at one time. I was brought up as a democrat. I used to go in the voting booth and vote democratic. But i am for trump all the way. Go trump. Go trump. Im affro american by the way. Host all right. Tennessee. Republican. Good morning. Caller good morning. The tickets cost 300. How much went to the dinner and to the speaker . And if the democrats are concerned about proper distribution of wealth, why didnt they just take the 300 or even increase it so they could give more scholarships for the students that they want to help . It doesnt have to have all this glitz and glamour to do that. And then my second question is why doesnt anyone ever ask Hillary Clinton why doesnt she go on fox news . Is that she wants to present herself to all the people which she limits herself or refuses to go on that network. What does that say to us . And then number three, under what rules do politicians appear on tv interviews . What are the restriction that is they place on the people asking the questions . Before we hear any comments . Thank you very much. Host theres a lot there. We go to a couple articles. I hope you wont watch by accident next time but you will tune us in. Washington post also recently wrote this. Lets hear from matt in massachusetts. Caller thanks for taking my call. I wanted to say that i think cspan does an amazing Public Service when their camera work you see d especially them talking to one another. Because thats the closest the American People get to a limpse of exactly how cozy the they are. You know that because everybody talks about going to the vanity fair party. And there are no cameras around there. Imagine how cozy it is at that party. Thank you. Host heres a little more from the president. Some candidates arent polling high enough to qualify or their own joke tonight. The rules were well established ahead of time. And then theres ted cruz. Host th