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>> reporter: of course you see there's a two-prong goal. the white house correspondents' dinner is going on in washington. s samantha bee has been skewering the president and attacking and in talking to other attendees, people who live in the late night political kind of world, that's really the goal here tonight, too. they are here to kind of laugh at president trump and make levity of the situation but also a celebration of journalism. >> let me ask you, ali, are you getting that same kind of dripping sarcasm from the other people that you're talking to? >> reporter: yeah, but it's not a dri...

Special place, and it's something that jeff sessions clearly doesn't understand. again, i don't know what's in his heart, but the sort of disparaging tone, the sort of dripping sarcasm when he's describing an island in the pacific -- i live on that island in the pacific. it is a pretty great place. it is the 50th state. it is the home of pearl harbor. it's where barack obama was born. it's where dan inouye represented all of us for almost 50 years. we're very proud to be the 50th state, and we're very proud to be, i think, an example for the rest of the country. so jeff sessions doesn't get it...

United states from what appears to be clearly his statutory and constitutional power. >> a judge sitting on an island in the pacific. i did not know that hawaii statehood was up for debate. what do you make of that, senator? >> well, it's just, you know, jeff sessions, first of all, they're wrong on the muslim ban. it is unconstitutional and racist. that's number one. number two, this is part of a pattern of jeff sessions and donald trump. i don't know what's in their heart, but i can tell you that they, both through their words and their actions, seem to target communities of color. and hawai...

Dripping sarcasm. it just is not. >> michael steele, we're in a terrible place as a party, if you look at all of the negative ads, something like 92% of the ads that have been running in florida are negative. this -- we look at these races one day at a time. and the bottom line is, this has a lasting impact in a swing state, on the republican brand, on the eventual republican nominee. and it also has another impact, if romney wibz and he starts running negative ads against obama in the fall, he's already branded as a negative candidate. he doesn't have that impact. >> this whole thing kicked o...