This is an emergency edition of the Commentary Magazine Daily podcast.

This is Sunday, April 26th.

It's 10.30 in the morning.

And we are gathering, obviously, to talk about the events of last night at the White House

Correspondents Association dinner at the Washington Hilton, where a gunman was apprehended outside the

ballroom.

Joining me today, as always, executive editor, Abe, hi, Abe.

Hi, John.

Senior editor Seth Mandel.

Hi, Seth.

Hi, John.

And a man in the ballroom was there when this happened, our contributing editor, Eli Lake.

Hi, Eli.

Hi, John.

So, Eli, not to do the, you know, like dramatic, you were there and what was, tell us how you felt and all of that, but you were there.

Tell us how you felt.

Okay.

So this was, we should say that, but you were there. Tell us how you felt. Okay, so this was, we should say that the

suspect is in custody, the actual shooting, the event happened like a floor above the actual ballroom,

but where my table was, as you've got to understand, the Washington Hilton

ballroom is such where there's kind of an outer ring and then another ring and then in the

center and then there's a big stage. I was at the outer ring in the sort of area of the CBS free press

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