Quiet at the Washington Hilton 4/27/26

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🗓️ 27 April 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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After gunshots interrupted the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday, attendees including CNBC’s Joe Kernen and Eamon Javers recount the evening’s turn. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Jay Clayton was also in the room, close enough to the President to be swept off with the Secret Service. Clayton considers the public’s and media’s role in amplifying hate, and then he discusses the legal proceedings of the week, starting with the feud between Sam Altman and Elon Musk over OpenAI’s founding mission as a nonprofit. Plus, CNBC’s Dan Murphy is in Dubai with the latest on Iran, and the Senate Banking Committee is scheduled to vote on Kevin Warsh’s Fed Chair nomination this week. Eamon Javers 2:30 Dan Murphy 14:57 Steve Liesman 17:13 Jay Clayton 23:08 In this episode: Eamon Javers, @EamonJavers Dan Murphy, @dan_murphy Steve Liesman, @steveliesman Becky Quick, @BeckyQuick Joe Kernen, @JoeSquawk Andrew Ross Sorkin, @andrewrsorkin Katie Kramer, @Kramer_Katie

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0:00.0	Bring in show music, please.
0:04.3	Hi, I'm CNBC producer Katie Kramer.
0:07.1	Today on Squawk Pod.
0:09.1	A shocking event at an American political institution.
0:13.1	You've never heard a room go deathly quiet as quickly as that room did.
0:18.0	Inside the security breach at the annual White House Correspondence Dinner, what's changed
0:22.7	this longstanding tradition and the latest in the investigation?
0:26.4	Jay Clayton, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York, on the stakes.
0:30.5	We all need to take a step back.
0:32.8	I need to take a step back.
0:34.9	Everybody in the media needs to just take a step back and say, you know, are we
0:38.3	amplifying hate and fringe elements? And the rest of this week's news beyond Washington, Iran,
0:45.1	the committee room of the Federal Reserve and the California courthouse hosting the fight between
0:49.6	Elon Musk and Sam Altman on the future of Open AI. When can a charity switch to being a for-profit entity and how does that take place and who
0:59.2	are you supposed to protect?
1:00.7	Is the public getting a benefit here?
1:02.8	And who determines whether the public benefit is appropriate enough, too little and
1:07.0	the like?
1:08.0	It is Monday, April 27th.
1:10.6	Squawk Pod begins right now.
1:14.6	Stand Becky by in three, two, one. Cue, please.
1:19.4	Good morning, everybody. Welcome to Squackbox right here on CNBC. We are live from the
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