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The core what this dinner is all about, you need to know about the white house correspondents association. it was started back in 1914 with the sole mission of pushing for broad access for the press to the president. and supporting vigorous reporting on the presidency. the group's first dinner is held back in 1921. sta started as a small group of 50 people, and has evolved for better or worse thanks to live television like us broadcasting us. also thanks to hollywood a-listers. the association now estimates more than 2,000 people attend. it also raises money for college scholarships. joining m...

Suddenly intel guys military guys are saying we can't make that public. >> it takes a civilian government and a strong leader to say, we can talk about what we are doing. >> we tried to fight world war ii by the standards of perfection and perfect accuracy being sought now, we couldn't have fought the war. i've been reading that long wonderful history. the number of mistakes and blunders is breathtaking. yet one won the war and everybody looks back on it as a good war. they held the white house correspondents dinner last night. also called the nerd prom where we get to pretend we're friends ...

>> carnival is a very good word. >> guess who won an award last year? everyone watching. before i go to break -- >> no one ways attention to what the dinner is about, which is scholarship money for aspiring journalists. >> typically, in years past whenever the scholarship winners go on stage, that's the time in which everybody pays attention the least. they head for the bar. they're busy eating their steak tartar, but they don't pay attention to the kids on stage at all. to say nothing to the fact that they don't raise that money for the scholarship. $100,000. >> so look, if you're not about s...

Welcome back to our special coverage of "the white house correspondents' dinner." for years, it was male only, a male-only event. even though the correspondents association of course allowed women. that changed in 1962, and tonight is another big night for the ladies, as the dinner welcomes comedienne cesily strong. no pressure standing alongside the leader of the free world. >> how do you like my new entrance music? >> none, none at all. >> he goes first. >> "saturday night live" superstar cesily strong. she's this year's queen of the nerd prom. the belle of the beltway ball. and she has the ...

All right, they call it the nerd prom. it's the oscars of washington, d.c. it's 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 it's 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 their use of social media. the buzzfeed video, the president shooting hoops, making every one. anot...