from WNYC studios. I'm Brian Lerer. This is my daily politics podcast. It's Monday, April 27th.

Here's a take on the shooting at the White House correspondent's dinner Saturday night that you may not have heard.

It comes from CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter, who is among those in the ballroom

at the Washington Hilton, when the gunman apparently bent on killing multiple members of the

Trump administration tried to shoot his way in. Brian Stelter's take, thousands of media and

political elites have now experienced what

countless millions of other Americans have gone through in their schools, offices, malls, churches.

Unquote. Brian Stelter joins me now for a few minutes with some thoughts on that and other aspects. Brian,

thank you for giving us a few minutes after the emotional experience. You all went through this

weekend. Welcome back to WMYC. Thank you, Brian. And let's go right to that quote of you that I cited.

Most people are talking about this specifically in the context of political violence,

which, of course, you acknowledge as well. But why did you also put it in that larger context of political violence, which of course you acknowledge as well.

But why did you also put it in that larger context of mass shootings or mass shooting attempts

in this country of all kinds?

Because I don't want people to think that the journalists and the politicians in the room

on Saturday were special. We are not special. We are now just like millions of other people who

have been through this before. You know, there was a mall in Louisiana where there was a shooting

the other day. A teen girl was killed. Others were injured. People were fleeing, running for their

lives. There was that horrible mass murder in Shreveport last week, you know, most of a family

taken out. These kinds of

acts of violence, they destroy communities. They create grievous wounds in towns and communities,

you know, whether it's a school or a mall or a church or a synagogue. And this time it just

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