Hey, pull up a chair. It's hacks on tap with David Axelrod, Robert Gibbs, and Mike Murphy. Can we just acknowledge how refreshing it is to see a president of the United States

at an event that doesn't begin with a bailiff saying all rise?

Okay, I Groose, that was comedian from Saturday Night Live, Colin Jost, am I pronouncing

his name, Wright Gibbs?

Good comic, working the worst gig in comedy. That is the

deadest room, you can possibly do it. Room is buried more careers than I can

think of, but I thought he did an admirable job at the White House

Correspondents dinner. Murphy is actually pronounced Mr. Scarlet

Johanson. It's an alternative pronunciation to just.

I got you I got you I thought he did pretty well I boycotted that event since the mid 90s

I'm a I'm a grumpy old bastard but it was a fun comic performance but we were full of dark comedy this week and

every dimension of American politics and joining me the one and only the great Robert

Z Gibbs my podcasting partner this week and you know to

understand the bizarre of this we had to bring in somebody who understands

both the sacred and the profane the politics of the high and the low, the one and only,

our pal, you introduce him.

The one and only, Paul Bagala, who I, you know, he can tell us, but I have a feeling that Paul wrote has written more than a few

lines for for a White House Correspondence Dinner be it a president speaking or somebody else, pundit extraordinary campaign

guru, Paul Begala.

Paul, tell us, you've written a few lines, haven't you?

A few back when I worked for President

Clinton and those it was a different time those were fun. They're

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