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Today on the Playbook podcast, the suspected gunman accused of trying to storm Saturday night's

White House correspondence dinner makes his first appearance in court

today, and it's still the only topic of conversation here in D.C. But not for much longer,

because royalty is in town today, King Charles III of Great Britain and Queen Cabilla

are flying in for a state visit. And over on the hill, they're calling it Hell Week,

with three massive deadlines looming for

speaker Mike Johnson. Hello, I am Jack Blanchard. And I'm Megan Messerly. It's Monday, April 27th.

Megan, have you recovered from the weekend? Jack, it was a wild weekend. It was a scary, weird,

tiring. Like, I feel like it ran the gamut of human emotion.

So I don't think I fully recovered, but we're going to press ahead into this week, Jack, somehow.

The weekends are tiring enough without all the extra drama of Saturday night. And the story is

obviously going to continue today with the suspected tutor in court in D.C.

Today, the conversation, Megan, really seems focused on the security around the event.

And there's obviously been a lot of chatter about that over the weekend.

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