for joining me this evening. the last time the republicans had a contested presidential primary was the year 2016. and no it seemed sort of impossible to imagine now the party was kind of divided about trump s victory all the way to the convention floor, and you saw that no more clearly than when senator ted cruz went to the podium in a prime time speaking slot, i might add, and refused to mention trump s name during his convention speech. and boy, oh, boy did people notice. if you love our country and love your children as much as i know that you do, stand and speak and vote your conscience. vote for candidates up and down the ticket who you trust to defend our freedom. god bless each and every one of you, and god bless the united states of america. prior to that moment, before all those just deafening boos, ted cruz and donald trump had been going at each other for months. relations between these two men were not good. trump regularly went after ted cruz s family during
telling you that. that s why they re sending all these democrats into run and it s crazy. it s not personal for me. i had no people want me to hate trump or love trump. that s not what it is. i just tell it on policy. i m not going to talk about him personally. i think politics is too personal and i think that s why people are so frustrated right now. donald trump and nikki haley with very different approaches to talking about the other. both are making their pitch to voters in new hampshire while ron desantis, meanwhile, has his sights scarily set on haley s home state. we ll have much more from the campaign trail straight ahead. plus, the latest from capitol hill on two major items, the spending bill to avoid a government shutdown, and the foreign aid package that republicans have tied to border security. and also ahead we ll bring you the new developments breaking out of the middle east. the u.s. is hitting more houthi targets as tensions are now rising between pak
Next. Tonight, a celebration of the First Amendment and the importance of a free press in the United States. Also, jokes, lots of jokes. All the most powerful people in washington except us all in the same room and about to be roasted by the president and a comedian. The white house Correspondents Dinner starts now. Members of the White House Correspondents association, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, here i am. F announcer fora time honore tradition bringing togethers washingtons people and powerful laughs. I invited luther, my anger translator, to join me here tonight. I mean, really. What is he saying . Tonight, roy wood jr. Takes aim at the politicians and President Biden himself will get in on the fun. I told my grandkids and Pete Buttigieg they could stay up late and watch this show tonight. From roasts. Donald trump has been saying he will run for president as a republican. I just assumed he was running as a joke. To jokes. Reality has a wellknown liberal bias. To mi
and i have never found a single person who has had anything negative to say about wolf blitzer. there s not a lot of comedians at cnn but sometimes the comedians at these dinners have a few laughs at my expense. always good natured, even the comedians when they make fun of wolf, though, it s very good natured how they make fun of him. i think, you know, the dinner, there are some laughs, but there are also dinners that are pretty consequential when you think of the one right before the osama bin laden raid, you think of that and the one where donald trump attended and obama roasted him and now you kind of look back at that, sort of what did that moment mean? that was historic, yes. that was historic. so i think there s even though sometimes things are funny, sometimes things get crazy, there are also really matters, and of course we re always here for the journalch, right? we re always here for the journalism and think about the first amendment, and especially