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Clock It with Symone & Eugene

Trump Uses WHCD Shooting to Push for a Ballroom That Makes No Sense

Clock It with Symone & Eugene

MS NOW, Eugene Daniels, Symone Sanders Townsend

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4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Symone and Eugene recount this year’s White House Correspondents dinner with Jen Psaki and Ali Vitali. Plus, a monumental SCOTUS decision on the Voting Rights Act.

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0:00.0

Well, well, well, greetings, everyone.

0:08.4

A lot has been going on this week.

0:11.0

Eugene and I were at the Hilton for the White House Correspondents Association dinner on Saturday night because we were working.

0:17.0

We were there with our colleagues when an attacker ran through security and shots were fired just outside the ballroom.

0:24.2

This year, President Trump was there last year. He was not in attendance.

0:27.5

But I was on stage as the WHCA president bringing a message, hopefully, about who we are and are not as journalists.

0:35.3

We journalists are a lot of things.

0:39.4

We are competitive and pushy.

0:42.7

We are impatient, and sometimes we think we know everything.

0:45.4

But we're also human.

0:50.0

We miss our families and significant life moments in service to this job. We care deeply about accuracy and take seriously the heavy responsibility of being stewards of the public's trust.

0:57.6

What we are not is the opposition.

1:00.7

What we are not is the enemy of the people and what we are not is the enemy of the state.

1:06.5

I just want to say I was in the crowd, okay? And I was like, yes, Eugene, yes.

1:11.6

And you did look fucking phenomenal.

1:13.6

Thank you.

1:14.2

Thank you very much.

1:15.8

But this year, I, her, a lot of us, hundreds of us were huddled underneath dining tables,

1:22.6

trying to figure out what the hell was going on.

1:25.7

Today, we've asked a couple of other people who are in the room with us,

1:29.7

under the table with us, to join us for the group chat.

1:32.6

So later in the show, MS Now's very own Jansaki and Ali Vitale will come on and talk

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