It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC. Good morning, everyone. Here's a take on the shooting at the White House Correspondents dinner Saturday night that you may not have heard.

It comes from CNN chief media correspondent Brian Stelter, who is among those in the ballroom at the Washington Hilton,

when the gunman apparently bent on killing multiple members of the Trump administration,

tried to shoot his way in.

Brian Stelter's take, thousands of media and political elites have now experienced

what countless millions of other Americans have gone through in their schools, offices, malls, churches.

Unquote. Brian Stelter joins me now for a few minutes with some thoughts on that and other aspects.

Brian, thank you for giving us a few minutes after the emotional experience.

You all went through this weekend.

Welcome back to WMYC.

Thank you, Brian.

And let's go right to that quote of you that I cited.

Most people are talking about this specifically in the context of political violence,

which, of of course you acknowledge

as well.

But why did you also put it in that larger context of mass shootings or mass shooting attempts

in this country of all kinds?

Because I don't want people to think that the journalists and the politicians in the

room on Saturday were special.

We are not special. We are now just like millions of other

people who have been through this before. You know, there was a mall in Louisiana where there

was a shooting the other day. A teen girl was killed. Others were injured. People were fleeing,

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