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The Playbook Podcast

'Shaken' but 'grateful to be safe': Shooting at the WHCD

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

News, Daily News, Politics, Government

3.9699 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2026

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

After gunfire disrupted the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Playbook goes live in a breaking Sunday edition to process what happened. Adam Wren and Dasha Burns share their firsthand experience inside the ballroom, the latest confirmed details, and the broader questions about political violence, security, and a country on edge.

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Today, on a breaking edition of the Playbook podcast, President Trump was rushed out of the White House Correspondence dinner last night after gunfire broke out.

0:46.3

Cabinet officials, high-profile guests and hundreds of journalists, including your two hosts this morning, dove under tables in the chaos.

0:53.5

No one was killed and a suspected gunman

0:55.7

is in custody. Hello, I'm Adam Wren. And I'm Dasha Burns. It is Sunday, April 26th.

1:02.6

We're not usually here, but it was a crazy night last night, Dasha, and we're here to unpack

1:07.9

all of it. How are you doing? I'm okay. I'm okay. I'm grateful to be safe.

1:13.6

I'm grateful that no one was hurt. So physically, I'm fine. Mentally is another story, I think,

1:23.0

for myself and many people. Dascher, this is the second shooting event that you've been involved in that's also involved

1:30.7

the president of the United States.

1:32.1

You were at the 2024 assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania as a reporter.

1:38.3

Yeah, it was strange in that moment.

1:43.3

I was watching the video and I could see myself and me and my table were among the

1:53.2

first to take cover and even sitting under the table. I had the same sort of thought of like I remember

2:00.7

in Butler as I was taking cover. I was the same sort of thought of like, I remember in Butler as I

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