181. Trump’s Dinner Shooting and Iran’s Desperate Deal
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Hello and welcome to The Rest Is Politics US. I'm Katty Kay.
I'm Anthony Scaramucci. Katty, would you have eaten your salad if you heard gunshots outside the ballroom?
I would like to think I'm a cool customer and would have carried on with my burrata salad. I know Michael Glantz very well for a while. He's a television agent at CAA, and he is the agent who is having a viral moment because rather than diving under the tables at the White House Correspondents' Dinner after the shots were fired, Michael very coolly sat there and carried on eating his burrata salad. We are going to talk about the events at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. The shooting has, of course, raised questions about American security around the president. Was the president safe? Were security protocols carried out as they should have been? I think it also raises interesting questions about the level of political violence and rhetoric in this country.
We know that the shooter was inspired by hatred of the president and his cabinet. So we'll talk about that. And then in the second half of the program, we're going to talk about this new peace deal that has been sent by the Iranians. to open the Straits of Hormuz but delay discussions about the nuclear program. The White House is kind of putting out a message that this shows how desperate the Iranians are. I've spoken to a couple of people who aren't quite so sure about that. Should we quickly run through what happened on Saturday night? I was not at the White House Correspondents' Dinner. You've been once, right, to that dinner, that wonderful celebration of the right of the free press?
I was there in 2011 when Barack Obama was roasting Donald Trump. And I sat at the Fox News table with Donald Trump in 2015. Do you like going? No, I didn't really like it, to be honest. 2016 was the last time. I've been to it three times.
I've been about 10 times. The first time I went, I actually went into labor during the dinner, Bill Clinton was speaking. And then I kind of gave up going about 10, 15 years ago. I decided that it wasn't necessarily the most edifying of events. But anyway.
Do you think they're going to do another one in 30 days?
This is what the president has wanted. So there was a shooting, just to quickly bring you all up to speed in case you don't know what happened. A man checked himself into the hotel. The White House Correspondents Dinner is held at the Hilton Hotel. Those of you who listen to our Reagan series will remember that that is the hotel where Ronald Reagan was shot. held every year in the basement ballroom of this hotel. A man had checked himself into the hotel, which you are allowed to do as a guest, but then that man took a couple of guns and a knife and rushed the security and was motivated by a hatred of the president and his cabinet. He tried to get into the room. He didn't get anywhere near the room, but he did fire off some shots, which had all of the journalists jumping under the table.
And the president afterwards said that he would like the event as a celebration of the right to free speech and the freedom of the press, which is what this event is meant to be about, to be held within 30 days.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:05–5:31
2
What happened during the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting?
5:31–8:10
3
How did the shooting raise questions about presidential security?
8:10–9:13
4
What are the implications of political violence in the U.S.?
9:13–11:06
5
What is Iran's new peace proposal regarding the Strait of Hormuz?
11:06–12:05
6
How does the U.S. view Iran's desperation in negotiations?
12:05–24:31
7
What security measures are necessary for high-profile events?
24:31–38:36
Speakers
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