on our social media pages as well as our metropolitan email. lawrence jones got a big show, maybe even two hours if he feels like it. thanks, casey. lawrence: our nation leaders are spending their night at the white house for the correspondents dinner. we'll hear from the president joe biden. in the heartland people are dealing with the fallout of those same leaders. america's once great cities are in decay. much of the blame falls squarely on the leaders who insisted on

pushing a radical program. the floodgates opened in 2020 when they came up with a bright idea to defund the police. they wanted us to believe take resources away from hot police would make us safer. major cities that embraced the idea found themselves in crime. and no city saw so much of a change in life than portland, oregon. portland jumped to the defunds the police movement in 2020. the council cut its budget by $15 million. in 2020 homicides increased 83% in portland.

that trend continues in 2021 and 2022. the city tried to combat growing crime by refunding the police in late 2021. but the force is struggling to bring back officers. portland has become a prime example of how quickly a city can fall into anarchy when there is a break down in the rule of law. burning down buildings, squatters. violence in the streets. last year there was a 17% increase in burglaries. if you look at the property crime, it's not much better. >> they had a truck pull up and break into the front door and try to drag off the atm machine. some 2,500 small businesses left portland since the start of the pandemic while its population

dwindles. joining me, portland mayor ted wheeler. i have the opportunity to talk with some of your folks, and i find them to be compassionate people. i want to play some of the sound from them when i talk with them. take a listen. >> the city was once great 10 years ago. there was a lot of people moving, flourishing, the last five, no good. >> there are a lot of problems the city has faced. the homeless situation has been pretty bad. >> i think it's changed over the years. i wouldn't necessarily say for the better. >> the mayor is working hard at taking care of his favorite constituents, people with tons of money and property in the city but not so much on the rest of us.

i would love to see him listen to the people instead of shutting them down when think try to speak. >> a lot of it has to do with homelessness. in front of my house i have six, seven camps. parked out. people doing drugs all day. >> those are your constituents. what would you say to them? >> those are some of my constituents. i certainly hear those criticisms. and i ema thries with those criticisms. we definitely have significant challenges in the city of portland around homelessness and criminal activity and liveability. these are the problems exacerbated in large cities across america. but there are a lot of great things happening in the city of portland. we were identified by "forbes"

as being the number one travel city in 2023. we booked our largest ever convention. we have businesses moving to the city of portland and investing in the city of portland. the initiatives we with have taken improving public safety and cleaning up the litter and graffiti. i encourage those who are struggling under the current environment to have the patience to see the work through. lawrence: i'm glad you talk about the police funding. it's something it seems you changed your position on. this ways you said before. >> the actions and reforms i will share today repurpose police dollars, reinvest in people to create a more racially just city and reform public

safety standard. at the end of the day, all of these things i believe will help lift the community and make us all safer. lawrence: in fact mr. mayor, it didn't make your city safer. especially for people who look like me, black and brown people in your community. it seems like you changed your position on this issue. why? >> not at all. what you are talking about is out of context. it was about a specific fund. we are having record recruiting for the portland police bureau. i'm proud of the investments i made in gun violence reduction teams. i am proud of the partnerships with our county and other governments around retail and auto theft. i have always been pro hub safety. as the police commissioner i made it my business to make city

safe for our citizens. we don't even make the top list of the top 30 most dangerous cities in america. the reason we -- lawrence: i gotcha. i hear the point your trying to make. this is not something my network is trying to get out of thin air. i spend most of my time with the people. i was invited into your city. i have been talking with residents there. they say they are unsafe. they say tents are surrounding their houses and squatters are taking over the city. i see it with my own eyes, people shooting up with drugs. they say because of policies you support. the police commander i talked to yesterday said you did defund the police and made an anti-cop sentiment under the guise of

racial justice. it's not something i am saying. these are your residents. >> look, i heard enough from fox news to know your network does take a very dim view toward the city of poarltd, towards me and towards others. but that's beside the point. we are one of the few major cities in america -- we don't have a recruiting problem for our police bureau. we don't have a funding problem. under my leadership we have improved our recruiting. we added new units. we negotiated a fair contract with our police officers that they seem very pleased with. and in fact yesterday we reached a settlement with the portland police association on body worn cameras. i feel luke our relationship is collaborative. that doesn't mean you won't find one person out of a thousand or even a hundred out of a thousand

who can't find reasons to be upset or critical or concern. i accept all of that. as the mayor i get the good, the bad and the ugly. but as a city we are improving. we are increasing criminal activity at the neighborhood level. we are working with specific neighborhoods to address homelessness, crimes, drugs, and those have been successful resets in areas where we have done that. so i will take criticism, but i also want you to hear that things are improving. lawrence: we'll have more of my interview with the mayor of portland ted wheeler. and monday at 8:00 p.m. the

mayor brags about new businesses arriving while walmart and other stores leave. jason rantz, you just heard from the mayor. i commend the mayor for coming on. but he could not admit his city is less safe. he could not admit he wanted to defund the police. what do you think of that interview? >> he won't admit it because he's the one who was mostly responsible. it was the mayor along with the council who decided to pursue these policies. he was the one who originally cut it. as a result of cutting that team we saw gun violence surge. at the same time we have seen populations dwindle and have seen businesses leave. he can be a publicist for his

city he leads. but for him to pretend that the city is not going through the crises it's going through, all that means to me is he's got his head in the sand or he doesn't think it's an actual problem. he should spend more time talking to people in his community. you will probably find a thousand people who complain and one person who thinks all is well. lawrence: we are playing sound from his people. to dismiss their concern instead of responding to the heart of the issue. i don't understand how he could be an effective leader. >> he's not an effective leader. what's important to note, you have conversations with folks in portland two years ago. like in seattle, it's very, very far to the left. anyone who citizes policies coming out of a liberal city,

more and more people keep speaking up and they are getting momentum because they can no longer stay silent. when you are walking with your kid to your favorite park and it's been taken over by homeless. or you go to a business that is closing down because they suffered their tenth break-in. lawrence: the folks i spoke with, they are still liberal and progressive, they just reached their breaking point. up next, what jamie failla is seeing live from the white house correspondents dinner. how to grow delicious herbs: step one: use miracle-gro potting mix.

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lawrence: we are moats away from the start of the white house correspondents dinner in washington, d.c. the press is seated. the president has arrived. and so has jimmy failla on the red carpet. what are you up to this year.

you have got a brother behind you. i knows who jimmy failla is. that's what it is. all the brothers hoff jimmy failla because jimmy failla can dress. >> we brought some real swag to the swamp. if anybody says anything about my jacket i have two guys i can hire to beat them up. lawrence: do they bring the -- >> they are sitting at my table right now. the weirdest thing happened. i knew i was going to be on tv, so i left my hotel to get a subway and 2:30 in the moaning. these dudes shoved me and said it was what? >> maga country. >> this is what you need to know.

the white house correspondents dinner has all the energy of nba weekend but all the stars got picked last in gym. lawrence: no swag, no nothing. >> no swag. you know how many people have come up to this pink jacket? they defunded the fashion police. they love this pink jacket. lawrence: are is the reception. it's full of dems. >> have the people in the room had any reaction to you being here? >> we are americans first. >> for $500, they will beat up anybody in the middle of the night. they do not discriminate.

>> they got the robe, they got the bleach. the hardest thing to find around here is a subway. i was in the dinner and i feel so bad for the wear it. karine jean-pierre was sitting by me and when i asked her what she was going to eat she had to look in the binder. the whole dinner is being held up so hopefully we'll be on time. >> don't let maga country get you in trouble. >> i will stay safe. lawrence: let's bring in our panel, tom shillue and kelly o'grady. i want to gauge your excitement of this event. joe, we know the president's approval rating is low.

i want you to hear from the american people i talked to in new york city. how would you describe joe biden. >> he's nice. >> nice. lawrence: what comes to mind when you think about president joe biden. >> i like joe. i feel like he's a little bit old right now. >> with regard to age. >> he's getting old. he would be a good grandpa. >> he's old. he's old. >> only cool. >> excuse me, i'm putting on my sunglasses. lawrence: how would you describe joe biden? >> not dedicated at all. >> give me a break, that's a bunch of malarkey. >> he did us a favor the first time and i think he should bow

out. >> what did he do? he beat donald trump. lawrence: what comes to mind when you think of joe biden. >> i don't really care about him. >> as long as the country is safe and peaceful. >> we are all in this together. lawrence: let me tell you i love going on the street because they always tell you what they think. how is he going to be received in a more friendly crowd. >> the friendly crowd in manhattan. >> the press that kind of concealed him. how will he be received? >> he will get rousing press. he will talk about a free and pair press and transparency.

but never judge him on his words, always judge him on his actions. he has had fewer press conferences than any president in 40 years at this point of his presidency. he gives a speech, gives remarks, then turns his back on reporters as they are trying to ask questions. when he does take questions, it comes from a predetermined list. some reporters play ball and say here is the question in advance. he will celebrate the press tonight and monday go back to ignoring them. lawrence: it's all about the timing, delivery of the joke. he will have the prompter to guide him. i'm assuming big thoughts. is he going to be able to land the bunches though? >> i worked with him before, he's a funny guy. i think this is a hell gig.

it's a hard gig to do. it's a big audience, a billing opportunity. but it's hard in a room like this when you are playing with people at the round tables. it's kind of cavernous. the best way to approach it is to read the teleprompter. make sure you get your jokes down. just plow through it and don't worry about the audience reanswer. that's what fouls you up. if you ever try to work the crowd, it's an awkward crowd to try to work. lawrence: when it comes to the jokes, do you think it will be an equal opportunity? or is it going to be skewed to one group of people? >> i wish i could say it will be equal opportunity. but past correspondents dinners show it might be skewed. i think he will tout the economy

and howe well -- how well it's . 37% approve. on the economy only 16% think he's doing well. >> i know we do this every single year. it's supposed to be a moment of pause where everyone is supposed to laugh. but i don't think people are feeling the politicians and laughing. i don't think they like these guys doing this event. >> it's a different comedy central. six of the seven hosts for this dinner have come from comedy central. give me a shillue or ricky

gervais. this is a dinner that once had bob hope. or conan o'brien. the gravitas i think is gone and half the country is resigned to look at this and say i know the jokes will all go one way, so why should i bother. lawrence: tom shillue, do you think greg gutfeld? is in very time for the king of late night to be invited here. >> it's quite predictable. in 2019 they were acting like they were under attack because of the trump administration. they had pins. it was one of those things, it was like the ribbon. it was some kind of phrase about free speech. as if donald trump saying fake

news and poking fun at them. what donald trump did to them what is they have always been doing to him. he roasted them back and they didn't like it. who is the biggest censor of all? joe biden and his administration. they started taking journalists off their platform. lawrence: it's time to hear from the people affected most by america's crime crisis. we'll take you back to the white house correspondent dish where. * is getting ready to speak.

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lawrence: here is a live look at the white house correspondents dinner in washington, d.c. criminals have been emboldened all across the country. it's the average day americans suffering the most. fear that used to live in the shah dose have become a reality for many of us.

i talked to a group who have become all too familiar with that loss. lawrence: thank you all for joining me tonight. i want to go to you first. you still have the scars of your experience from a career criminal. how did we get here? >> a lack of the wrong bills, a lack of not making sure the people are safe. lawrence: who do you hold responsible for that? >> honestly, i am going to say to say i hold the city responsible. this guy was under their control. they are the ones that made him free on parole. so i blame them. >> jessica, you never thought that the tragedy would hit you at home when utsss you lost your son. >> he was 18, a senior in high

school. he was killed at at gas station the in 2018. kim you lost your partner. >> he was 33 years old and he was murdered by a couple of friends in 2015 in the city of oakland in front of his home. lawrence: andy, you have been crime stoppers. what do you think we need to stop crime in our society? >> i have been a victim advocate for 30 some years. crime victims are the only unwilling participants in the criminal justice system. everyone else chose their role from law enforcement, judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, media, victim advocates. but i have never seen anyone who said pick me, i want to be a

victim of a crime. the least we can do is look out for the victims' rights and their well-being and their due process. in the last few years i have seen a seismic shift where we are more concerned about the defendants' rights and in some cases we treat defendants as victims themselves. lawrence: you say, look, there is a lot when it comes to our leaders and we have to change this. did you say it also starts in the home. what did you mean by this? >> it's crazy. a lot of parents are scared of their children. if you are scared to discipline your child, of course they are not ready when you go out into the community. how do you expect someone else to discipline them if their own parents can't discipline them. >> you are still living with this, do you feel like there is a wake-up call or anything when

it comes to our community leaders. it seems like we are on repeat he single weekend. every day of the week, we are playing the same old stories of people being victimized. >> there is only so much the system can do. no matter how much cost they put out there or how many cameras, the people have to play a major part as well like what we were saying about kids in the home. people have to play a major part as well. this is our community. lawrence: andy, i have got to ask you this. no one thinks this will impact them until it does. >> in the last 30 years i have been monitoring and watchdogging the criminal justice system and i can tell you the revolving door at the courthouse with regards to bail reform as led to a significant increase in

violent crime. lawrence: what would you say to our lead officers this crime crisis is disproportionately hurt black and brown neighborhoods. >> i personally don't feel like local and state federal leaders do what they are supposeo supposed to do to adequately address issues within our communities. a lot is swept under the rug. we are lied to believe that we can be comfortable. they are supposed to implement a lot of programs such as the violence prevention program. but it only goes so far. that's one of the reasons our community throughout oakland and everywhere is suffering. lawrence: jessica, what about that? >> we want to be heard. we oppose efforts to defund the

police, in fact we advocate for adequate funding to train for police, conflict resolution skills and tactics to discourage excessive use of force. lawrence: my last question for you. what do you think? if we want to solve this issue today, what is something we can do immediately to improve our environment? >> well, first things first, we have to get the people the help they need. the people are crying for help. give them the help they need. if it's a mental state or physical state. they need to figure it out. we can't just have them walking in the streets. we are mind our business trying to get to where we need to get to. lawrence: thank you all for

joining me. i appreciate you all. hundreds of professors signed a letter demanding america's founding and the constitution be erased from the school curriculum. we'll hear live from president biden as he speaks at the white house cwhitewhite house corresps . cut! i don't actually play tennis. i'm just an actor in a commercial. most insurance companies don't know me. but humana does. when i was diagnosed with copd, they helped me to manage it and keep my medication costs low. even got me playing harmonica to help my lungs. motorcycle scene. take 1. i can't ride this thing either. better care begins with listening. humana. a more human way to healthcare.

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that include america's founding and the constitution. they say it's an ideological force feed of the constitution. corey, this is -- you are supposed to learn in middle school, high school, about the constitution. but apparently this is force feeding. >> we hit a new rock bottom when it comes to the ideological indoctrination in our university system. it's time to defund these universities. we spend $300 billion a year in taxpayer money. per student, that's more than we spend at the k-12 level. why should we continue to subsidize these liberal professors. lawrence: why are we dumbing things down for our kids.

>> the idea behind thought teaching american history is to:persuade us that we have nothing in common with each other and the greatest country inned world history is ... loneliness prepares us for totalitarianism. we watched as they tore down statues of our founding fathers and did away from columbus day. erasing history is what totalitarians do. we just can't cover it here. lawrence: we should defund them. they have all this endowment money. students are going into debt over the school. they should be fine without federal funding. >> and we can get the federal

government out of the student loan business that prop up the system. but we can take the universities back. look what chris ruffo is doing in florida with new college. and to not allow the left to take them over. and we should push to give taxpayers their money back. lawrence: also parents have to be mindful during their selection process. because they are funding it, too. the moms and dad and grandmas and grandfathers. they are signing those checks. >> i'm not as optimistic as corey. i think the colleges are largely lost. there will be exceptions. but things have gotten so bad, i think the battle is the k-12 space because they are coming for the kids to do the same thing they did in colleges, and

that's where we need to really mount that knight fight right now. that -- mount that fight. i don't know that they are salvageable. lawrence: even our military. we have milley on the red carpet taking selfies with the press. thanks for joining me. coming up, more of my exclusive interview with portland mayor ted wheeler. and president biden is moats away from speaking at the white house correspondents dinner where they are saving democracy. my name is brian delallo. i teach ap and honors economics in pittsburgh, pennsylvania. financial well-being to me is knowing that i can be free to do the things that i love to do. i hope when i retire someday, they say,

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lawrence: you are looking live at the white house correspondents dinner in washington, d.c. president biden is expected to speak. we'll brit to you live when he begins to speak. >> we need to feel secure. we need to go home and sleep and

don't think about what's going to happen. every time somebody calls me in the moaning, something happened in the restaurant, my neighborhood, across the street, here and there. it's too much for us. lawrence: i can't thank you enough for joining the program and taking the tough questions. measure 110 is something we may agree on. many people agree with decriminalizing hard drugs. they said they were going to allocate 100 million per year for treatment. a lot of people agreed with that. now we are three years out which means people should have gotten $300 million for treatment. but now we are see nothing services for these people. there are more people addicted to drugs. it covers the housing and job training. but the treatment centers, the

detox, was that a failure from the state? >> i would say first of all, that was not a government action. here in the state of oregon, citizens can bring inner tifers. and it has not lived up to its promise. increased treatment across the state, increased funding for treatment. that funding has been very slow to materialize. and the way that it's been implemented in my opinion is flawed because it doesn't include treatment programs. it includes other ancillary types of services, but if you can't invest in treatment it won't be successful. there are people in the state legislature trying to make it more effective and i would support those efforts.

lawrence: there is a lot of people that still like portland is the progressive dream, they come to portland for that experiment. would you say what's happening in portland is a failed experiment? a lot of people come here because they believe in portland and the ideas that are happening there. but it doesn't seem like it's working. >> well, first of all, again, i don't agree with you. i'm optimistic about the future of the city. but i will say this. the experiences we are having around housing, homelessness, public safety, drug addiction. a lot of these are representative of upstream failures. we don't have a good mental health safety net. or a substance abuse treatment network. portland is very expensive as it is up and count west coast.

all of those safety nets were tested. when people fall through the safety nets they end up on our streets. we are work from the ground up in partnership with the private sector, the faith community and other governments to right size things and move forward. lawrence: i think we can agree we both want what's best for your citizens, your residents. i appreciate you coming on today to take the tough questions and i hope you will come back soon. thank you, mr. mayor. i can't think of anything more cruel than allowing people to get addicted to drugs and not giving them treatment after you promised it to them. to see the rest of my interview with ted wheeler tune into fox at 8:00 p.m. monday.

tyrus, what do you think? >> hats off to you. great line of questioning. you tried to be polite. tried to bring him in. you are dealing with facts. as eloquent as your questions were, all the answers were in feelings. you basically stopped police funding, you made it harder for criminals to be apprehended. but to hair we didn't have a fail safe. we didn't know mental health would be an issue. you tried to give hill. let's find some common ground and work on our streets safe. that's the problem with the progressive first world agenda. it's sad to see people aren't going to get the help they need. >> even when it doesn't work. let's double down on it. >> we break a few eggs. i had it that saying.

but that's what we are being told by the progressives in portland. things are rough now, but they will be better. we know it. we have a good feeling. we are going to give programs that don't exist. we aren't going to hire people based on merit to get those programs in order. what you see is what you get. as long as we feel good about it, that's fine. that's the problem. we need facts, not feelings. lawrence: he didn't want to talk about facts. brother, thanks so much for joining me tonight. >> keep fighting the good fight. lawrence: don't go anywhere. our complete coverage continues next. how to grow more vibrant flowers: step one: feed them with miracle-gro shake 'n feed.

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fox news alert, welcome back to special country. thank you for being with me. live look in washington d.c. with the president moments away from taking the podium. when he does, we will bring you that live. also our panel standing by to bring complete coverage tonight but first, fox across america, the man himself, jimmy failla live from the red cross in washington from the behind the scenes action. i'm drawing from my preapproved, tell us about your outfit choice for the red carpet tonight. [laughter] you seem -- >> i have a list of people i'm supposed to call on, the first question does go to you. clarence jones crossed country host, lawrence jones, how are my

outfit choices with the what has correspondents dinner? >> you need your glasses, that's what it is. >> first of all, i want to thank you for letting me participate in the live bar for four hours before i went on live tv, wait to look out for my career. i used to think we have something but can i tell you something about my fashion? pink jacket is crushing. there's a lot of fashion on the red carpet, do you know what it is? everybody thinks i'm a former figure skater that got fat because everyone here is a celebrity, they are like as a figure skater, he won the gold in 94 and now he's all chubby but still comes out so it's going good have you know. >> i've always appreciated your fashion, i get criticism about my flash sometimes and they always say you are a brother, you can get away with it but jimmy, you are like forget that, i'm a brother inside, i will go to the red carpet the way i want

to. >> let me tell you how we roll. when you are a star, you don't read the room, you lead the r room. do you want to know how many brothers have talked to me about the jacket? all of them. everybody here is like yo, that's a dope coat, man. everybody else -- thank you. that's what we are doing, lawrence jones. we are having a good party. the president just got on stage, it took a minute because he went the wrong way but he's shaking invisible hands and sniffing babies and there should be a speech any minute. >> apparently some democrats can't understand the lack of excitement around joe biden. listen. [laughter] >> sometimes it frustrates me when i hear people in some democrats say joe biden doesn't like them, doesn't send a thrill of the like. as a man of tremendous, he's in public service for the right reason. >> she just can't understand,

doing it for the right reason. >> do you know what biden's reelection is? have you ever been to a wedding where everybody in the church knows they shouldn't be getting married? like nobody there wants to say anything? that's the democrats right now. i'm not sold. just so you know, gavin newsom was very prominent on the party scene in d.c. last night. i saw him at multiple parties for real. he's out here working the refs hard. he met everybody in the media and even said hello to fox. i met kamala's harris doug, second gentleman. >> was he kissing julie? >> right on the lips. you know what i did to make them feel comfortable? i repeated myself twice every time i used a phrase so i was like you know, how are you

doing? and when you are doing, it's about how you are doing it which is the most important and he's like kamala? but it was a good time, man. [laughter] >> standby, jimmy. let's bring in our panel. fox news contributor joe concha as well as foxbusiness correspondent kelly o'grady. i got to meet for the first time yesterday, so excited. we are always doing it across because she's in l.a., her office is next door to mine now. joe, a lot of fanfare, i just have to go to milley doing selfies. we are at an all-time low. we could be in a war very soon. our enemies don't respect us and you've got woke four-star general doing selfies with the press. >> china may be going into taiwan soon. russia and ukraine, a stalemate, a goat go nuclear at some time.

we see what's going on with sudan, 16000 americans left behind there. general billy maybe take the night off, this is a bad look that you are there starstruck over being with these journalists right now. bottom line to get back to what you're saying about joe biden before and how jimmy was, 77% of voters don't want him to run again. majority of voters democrats don't want him to. robert f jenny kennedy, thomas governor, he's getting nearly 20% of the vote, what does it tell you about where democrats are right now with this president? >> is there any upside the president? could this give him a little boost and this is the president walking out right now, him and joe biden. >> we only have 20 minutes then? [laughter] >> that's from earlier today. >> i don't think so. you heard the frustration from that person on msnbc saying why

isn't there more excitement? we had a couple of years of this. look at what's happening in the economy. you see he didn't even give a speech when he announced his run, it was a video so do we really think this is going to insight excitement? this is past his bedtime. >> do you think the media groomed him to be this way? i remember covering the campaign in 2020, he just stayed in the basement. we be begging him to do polls and everything and he got elected president and he's doing the same thing. >> i think that's exactly right, he's able to do this before so why should he change it now? he's a couple years older. the other day he was some event and couldn't remember how many grandchildren he had so anytime he's going out, you see those moments happen and i do think the media allow this to happen and they are giving him his questions ahead of time and he's not even that eloquent when he

answers them, what does that tell you? >> is it just the age thing or is it just he starting to fade away? look at former president trump, he's posting rallies so is it strictly age or everybody at different times? >> i don't even believe the age thing is that big of a factor. obviously is old, he can't remember where he is, that's b bad. but he's effective enough to do what he's doing which is hurting the country so every time they play this uncle joe, i feel all of the people in the permanent ruling class in washington d.c. love the fact that biden is just kind of a figurehead and you have more competent people running things. that's the way they like it, that's why they chose them as their nominee and work with him to run so they can play this kind of uncle joe, he's just been around washington all these years and he's a charming guy

and rise the amtrak and all this. really, i don't care if he's senile or not, i don't like the job he's doing. >> will it reflect that? there's a lot of material with sleepy joe so will it reflect that? >> it's going to reflect the material he likes. he loves the old uncle joe. i don't even think he minds the stuff about sniffing people's heads because it falls under this quirky old man category with the ice cream, they will talk about aviator shades so they will poke fun of his character but it's in a way i think he likes. you can bet it will poke fun of his policies. >> part of his problem is in big moments he doesn't show up. didn't go to nashville, still did not show up for those people but this was a president elected on average guy. amtrak. another train crashes and he

doesn't go greet the people. >> it's one thing if he tries and fails but at least two seat effort that he cares. this is a president who works 24/7, 24 hours a week, seven months a year. you see his schedule. some days he calls it 9:00 a.m., oftentimes he has one of it and that's it. almost every weekend he's in delaware. i'm all for are in dark but there's something, kelly brought it up, the fact that he announced his campaign over video. the reason is because you can produce, edit and package them in a way that he actually does look vibrant and confident and doesn't have to take any questions after the announcement so we will see videos out of the campaign not a lot of campaigning. >> to be there when i wake up for "fox & friends", i, too, call in at 9:00 a.m. i go home and take a nap. >> you just turned 40 so is

stuff. >> i go to the gym after "fox & friends". that's my thing. you got to just get. he got to shower. you can't be a slob. you'll marry, you have to worry about that. do you think -- his performance, it is a performance, go being too hard but do think there's accountability from the press to joe biden? is holding democracy, how can you have democracy if the commander-in-chief won't speak to the people? >> i think it's an excellent question, this entire dinner, this entire organization is about protecting the first amendment and celebrating that and with how the media is treating the president, the fact that he isn't taking accountability so i don't expect

him to take accountability. he just announced his campaign run so you without look at inflation, it was 10% and now by percent, is still hurting average americans. >> by the way, it's not just joe biden who refuses to speak to the quest. the democrat national committee announced they will do prior debates. they are heading it for a re reason. >> let's bring in jimmy failla. you got some news? who just walked past? >> it's almost go time. >> they are sweeping the room. >> secret service just went by, the woman who cuts up biden's foot for him, that happens. [laughter] go talking smack about biden okay but biden is telling his advisors he's going to be president truman said don't forget so we are underestimating him. >> the only saving grace for him is kamala's numbers are worse.

>> she's pulling behind isis right now. she's like three points behind. not pretty. >> are you going to get the chance to go? do you have an appetite to go in and listen? >> not only if i'm going in, if he goes in, i'm going to pull a will smith. [laughter] >> you better hope kamala doesn't pull one. anyway, thanks, jimmy. [laughter] >> good stuff, guys. >> we will have more coverage of the white house correspondents different dinner coming up. don't go away. ♪

fox news alert, the president is taking the podium of the correspondent. >> to be optimistic. that where we stand right now. the entire family, everyone in this whole stands with you. we are working everyday to secure his release, opportunities and tools to bring him home. we keep the faith. we also keep the faith for austin. his mom is here tonight. [applause] she knows several conversations with me and my senior staff, we are not giving up. as i told you at this dinner laster, as i told you in the oval office, you raised an incredible son. when he was a kid he is an eagle

scout, a "big brother", born protector. u.s. marine, three tours in iraq and afghanistan. austin was a fearless list and future lawyer. as a consequence of austin showing the world the cost of war is been detained in syria for nearly 11 years. it's simply wrong, outrageous and we are not ceasing our effort to get him, find him and bring him home. tonight -- [applause] our message is this. journalism is not a crime. evan and austin should be released immediately along with every other american held hostage wrongfully detained abroad. [applause] paul whalen, and russia more than four years. who's brave sister i've met with

and family never quit fighting for paul and i promise you, neither will i or this administration until we get him home. [applause] there are other americans not just held in iran and venezuela and elsewhere, their stories may not make headlines or hashtags but every day, every day there family looks at the empty chair at the can you table. birthdays, anniversaries, holidays without them. the pain of living in limbo in the pain of having lost a child in looking at an empty chair. the stress of not knowing, the sorrow of uncertainty but i want them and their families to know we see them. they are not forgotten i promise you, i'm working like hell to

get them home. [applause] as a nation -- we will never give up on hope. things can get better, things can turn, things can change. tonight, unlike last year, britney griner is here. [applause] where are you, kid? stand up. come on. i love this woman. [applause] this time last year we were afraid for you, hoping you knew how hard all of us were fighting for your release. it's great to have you home.

[applause] i can hardly wait to see you back on the court. remember your promise, i could to bring my granddaughter. because of our unrelenting efforts, we been able to bring home dozens of hostages and wrongfully detainees from afghanistan, haiti, iran, venezuela, around the world, doing everything we can to prevent these cases from occurring in the first place. for example, the state department added the threat of detention as a new risk indicator to its travels advisors to go along with the threat of kidnapping, where these drugs are abroad. i recently signed executive order increasing consequences for criminal groups of terrorists to engage in this practice of treating human beings as bargaining chips,

political ponds. two days ago my administration announced first sanctions under this new authority placing individual security services, russia and iran part of the wrongful detention of americans. above all across government, experts are working day and night to bring fellow americans home much of which as you well know, we can't talk about. concern it will backfire. my commitment is to bring them home just as i know your commitment is to be in a free and fearless press and that's what we honor tonight. this is not hyperbole. we make it possible. you make it possible for ordinary citizens to question authority and even laugh at authority who have fear and

intimidation. that's what makes this nation strong. tonight let us show ourselves and the world our strength not just by the example of our power but by the power of our example. folks, i know a lot has changed in the past, i've had a lot of connotations with a lot of you. this is not your father's press room 20 years ago. i'm serious and you all know it better than i do but still, it is absolutely consequential and essential. after all, i believe in the first amendment matches because my good friend, jimmy madison wrote it. [laughter] in a lot of ways, my first two years in office. [laughter] i'll talk ten minutes, take zero

questions and cheerfully walk away. [laughter] i know, i just announced my reelection campaign. [cheering and applauding] some of you scoops that announced in the video for really you all thought i just blurted it out, didn't you? [laughter] look, i get ages a completely reasonable issue. it's on everybody's mind and everyone, i mean the new york times by everyone. [laughter] headline, guidance advanced age is a big issue. trumps however, is not. [laughter] that was the new york times pitch, i promise. i love that guy.

i should do an interview with him. [laughter] might think i don't like rupert murdoch, that's simply not true. how can i dislike a guy who makes me look like harry styles? [laughter] call me old. [laughter] i call it three seasons. you say i'm ancient and i say i'm was. you say i'm over the hill. don levin would say that's a man in his prime. [laughter] [applause] folks, it's wonderful be back here again proving i haven't learned a leap thing. i want everybody to have fun

tonight but please be safe. if you find yourself disoriented and confused, too drunk or marjorie taylor green -- [laughter] thank you for hosting us. i love npr. [applause] they whisper into the mic like i do. [laughter] not everybody loves npr. elon musk tweeted it should be refunded. the best way to make npr go away is for elon musk divided. [laughter] that's more true than you think. anyway. [laughter] this dinner is one of the two great traditions of washington. the other one is underestimating me and kamala.

[applause] the true this, we have a record to be proud of. vaccinated the nation, transformed the economy, armed historic legislative victories and midterm a result of the job isn't finished. i mean it is for tucker carlson what are you going about like that? you think it's not reasonable? give me a break. [laughter] give me a break. don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative. [laughter] we had added 12 million jobs, that's just to defend the president. [laughter] have ron desantis, i had a lot of ron desantis jokes ready but mickey mouse beat me and got there first.

[laughter] look, can't be too rough of a guy. after his election is going, he was asked if he had a mandate. he said no, i'm straight. [laughter] i'll give you time to think that one through. [laughter] you got it? you all keep reporting my approval rating that 42% but i think you don't know this -- kevin mccarthy called me and asked me, joe, what is your secret? [laughter] i'm not even kidding about that one. [laughter] the speaker is trying to claim a

big won this week. the last time public voted on something this hapless, it took 15 tries. that was good. [laughter] look, it's great cable network news is here tonight. msnbc, nbc universal. [cheering] fox news voting systems. [laughter] [cheering and applauding] last year your favorite fox news reporters were able to attend because they were fully vaccinated and boosted. this year at $787 million for them promote, they are here because they couldn't say no to a free meal. [laughter]

and i'd call fox honest, fair and truthful. then i can be sued for defamation. [laughter] nothing compared to what they do to me. look, i hope the fox news team finds this funny. michael is to make them laugh as hard as cnn did with the settlement but then again, cnn was like well, they actually have $787 million. [laughter] folks, i go where people are. the daily show. [cheering and applauding] a great guy. he wants to dump me the jay-z of delaware. [laughter]

don't let you look in the face. you did. tonight he asked me to keep it short. even after me $10 if i keep it under ten minutes. that's a switch, a president over hush money. [laughter] [applause] i will leave the jokes to the pros but let me conclude on a generally serious note. born in birmingham alabama, he graduated from great hp you amm. [applause] started in journalism following in the footsteps of his father who covered the civil rights movement. during black history month this year i hosted the screening of the movie to. [applause] the story of emmett till and his mother is a story of a family's promise and loss in the nations hate, violence and abuse of power, a story that was seared

in her memory and conscience, the nation's conscience but she insisted and open casket for her murdered and maimed 14-year-old son by the means by which is transported. she said that the people see what i've seen. the reason we saw what she saw is because of another hero in the story, the black press. [cheering and applauding] that's a fact. she had magazine, chicago defender. [applause] another black radio newspapers make sure america saw what she saw. [applause] and i mean it. [applause]

ida b wells once said and i quote, way to right wrongs is the way to turn the light of truth upon the wrong. turn the light of truth upon the wrongs. thus the sacred view of my view, the sacred charge of free press and i mean that. that's what someone we still miss so much stood for. [laughter] she was among the very best we to talk about the table, she moderated the first race for vice president, a trusted voice for millions of americans. one understood the lower the noise, the more on all is us to

cut the noise to the truth. the truth matters. as i said last year at this dinner was and is running for our democracy and parts of the extreme press. truth buried by lies. lies living on as truth. lies told for profit and power, buys of conspiracy and malice repeated over and over again designed to generate a sacral of anger, hate and even violence. a cycle that emboldens, history to be buried, books to be banned among children and families attacked by the state and the rule of law and our rights and freedoms to be stripped away,

elected representative's of the people expelled from the houses for standing for the people. i made clear we know in our bones and you know it, to, our democracy remains at risk and it also made it clear as i've seen throughout my life it's within our power, each and every one of us to preserve our democracy. we can, we must, we will. i like to make a toast if i had a glass. [laughter] a grandfather said if you ever make a toast, you got one in your left hand. [laughter] don't think i'm kidding. i'm not. [laughter] probably the only irish who's ever drank in his life.

[laughter] i'd like to make a toast, seriously. this inflection time in history, let us commit we will be a nation that will embrace light over darkness, truth overlies and finally restore the soul of the nation. here, here. [cheering] ladies and gentlemen -- can i give you that? i'm going to turn us over to r roy. roy. the podium is yours. i'm going to be fine with her jokes but i'm not sure about dark brandon. [applause] all yours, pal. [applause]

>> thank you, mr. president. i think. [laughter] it is now my great pleasure to introduce our headliner for the night, roy wood junior. [cheering and applauding] he is a correspondent for the daily show who just had a killer week as guest host but roy doesn't just play a fake journalist on tv, the degree from a and m university is an broadcast journalism. while pursuing comedy, roy spent 13 years in mourning radio in birmingham, alabama and the same

station where his father, a pioneering radio journalist once worked. without further ado, let's give it up for roy wood junior. [cheering and applauding] [laughter] >> give it up for dark brandon. [applause] happy to be here. real quick, i think you left ossified documents appear. [laughter] don't give them to him, i'll put them in a safe place. he don't know where to keep them. happy to be here. happy to be here. [laughter] very happy, very happy to be here. it's a pleasure to be here,

amongst our country's greatest leaders, distinguished media organizations, property brothers and doctor fauci. [laughter] did you see him, take a picture with him, that your booster shot. you look good, i've been watching and looking around, you all look good, he just nice, nice dress on, the julie glistening, looks like everybody got a piece of that settlement money from fox news. [laughter] that's all i have to say about that. [laughter] not going to have dominion on me. let me say right now, fly favorite voting machine -- [laughter] dominion voting machines. [laughter] when i go to the polls, i make sure it is a dominion machine that i use if your election needs the truth, put dominion in your booth. [laughter]

there are three people who don't want to see in the courtroom, that's dominion, cardi b or glenna, you going to lose. [laughter] i'd like to thank the white house correspondents association for having me. [applause] i'm well aware not everybody in the room knows to address the of it in the room, i know what it is. have this room don't know damon thompson. the other half think i'm louis armstrong. president biden thinks on the daddy on family matters. [laughter] nonetheless, i am happy to be here at this advanced amongst government officials who speak to msnbc, former government officials who now work at msnbc and future government officials

who currently work at msnbc and often overlooked purpose of tonight's dinner, serious business and over the purpose of tonight's dinner to reward scholarships to students who have shown great achievements in journalism. these brave young souls are the future of the industry and i like to stop right now congratulate tonight top scholarship recipient arizona state senior george santos. [laughter] george couldn't be here tonight, he's auditioning for a drag r race. [applause] [laughter] we say good luck to you, george. also, speaking of drag queens, can we stop with the grooming stuff? and you stop talking about that? drag queens are not at the

school to groom your kids. [cheering and applauding] stop it. even if they were, most of the kids are going to get shot at schools, it's no problem. don't pass legislation. [applause] the blues don't bother me. mitch mcconnell. i ain't got no soul. [laughter] it's a tumultuous time in the media, we got layoffs ever everywhere. buzz feed news, access, washington post, espn, paranormal global is considering violet allen and tyler perry to purchase bet. that's how bad it is, the companies are so broke, they give bet back to back people. [laughter] is not what we met when we said black people wanted reparations. we make cash.

[laughter] but tonight we are all unified under one of it in fact scandal. [laughter] scandals have been devouring careers this year. the untouchables, tucker carlson is out of a job. [cheering] some people celebrate but to tucker's staff, i know what you're feeling. i work at the daily show so i've been blindsided by the sudden departure of the host of the fake news program. [laughter] tucker got caught up like that dude from manor park rules. [laughter] text messaged him, i do know what it's about, just washed it a couple times. my friends say it's like bmf for white people.

secession is power for white people. [laughter] no, tucker carlson is power for white people. no, that's quite power. never mind, don't worry about that one. we've got to get tucker back on the air, mr. president. millions of americans don't even know why they hate you. [laughter] fox claim dominion conspired with the democrats to rig the election in the democrat should that they thought the you're smart enough to rig an election. [laughter] we not needing a rolloff to be the werewolf. [laughter] but it's not over for you, fox news you still got news coming down the pike, the smart voting machine is coming, coming for you and they want more money, my

favorite voting machine is the smart medic voting machine. if your election needs the truth, put smart medic in your booth. [laughter] it's fair should give credit where credit is due, tucker carlson's first host to get live from fox news for something that's only partially about how he treats women. that's progress. [laughter] he shattered the ceiling. [laughter] speaking of, don fleming is out of a job. [laughter] don lemon, he released a statement saying he got fired from cnn and cnn released a statement saying they offered don a meeting that he had to part ways because he can't accurately report a story about

don lemon. i still think he deserves more, cnn that's not how you hire somebody. it's messed up. how funny is it that you work in the news and watch it on the news that you got fired from the news? is now the most obnoxious guy in the history of cnn. even jeffrey, he rubbed me the wrong way. [laughter] letting him go was the wrong move. you shouldn't have let him go, not the soon. don was fine when you are letting him drink, you shouldn't have cut off his liquor. you don't fire your host after the first couple of scandals. with the scandals, the scandals have to stack up. you have to get ratings. he was a diva and he said a couple of women are raggedy but that's a promotion at fox news.

[laughter] i ultimately understand why cnn did what they did. i get it. it's about morals. this should be no place on air for someone who speaks with while disregard that doesn't consider the pullback of the coworkers or the company. thankfully cnn has taken steps in the right direction got rid of don fleming and have given the show to charles barkley. [laughter] charles barclays cohost, gayle king, we say good luck. i think it's going to be a good show, charles barkley saying something crazy and dale king looking into the camera saying charles. charles. scandals. so many scandals. president donald trump and just

for a moment, can we all acknowledge, be honest and just say the trump arrest didn't hit like we thought it was going to hit. now the trump arrest didn't do what i thought was going to do, it was like the pop brownie he got four hours ago do i feel justice? this don't feel like justice. let me travel, maybe that will. that's got some kick. [laughter] can't follow trump scandals, too many. keeping up with trump scandals is liking watching star wars, he got to watch the third want to understand the first one and then can't miss the second one because it's got easter eggs and donald trump is the only politician whose scandals, spit on, disney+. [laughter] the trump arrest made everybody question what they believed.

you thought you'd seen one way and trump got locked out, ready started. put republicans between a rock and a hard place. donald trump got locked up for years all the republicans have been saying for years, we've got to get tough on crime. trump got arrested. we met biden crime. [laughter] liberals were confused, we got to abolish president. trump was arrested, bring him back. [laughter] i don't about you all but for me, the easiest scandal to follow was a trump document scandal. that was the easiest, simple. supposed to be in the white house and then he's not. the media did charles job, he jumped on it as soon as the trump document story broke, everybody was down at marlborough reporting about the documents and we are going to

find him and then we found out joe biden had documents, too and dislike it's not a big deal. [laughter] not a big deal, everybody's got documents. oh look a chinese spy balloons, would you look at that? [laughter] well done, media. happy to be here, very happy to be here. if there's one person that could use a scandal, it's wrong to santos. that boy is running around passing every controversial law he can think of thinking it's going to activate voters. that's not how you activate voters in this country, everybody knows how you do politics, we don't pass laws. you make a promise to voters and then you don't do it. [laughter] that's what the great leaders in this room understand. you know how to make things not happen. [laughter]

the only thing wrong to santos has done butter got to give him credit for his getting people riled up over stuff they can understand. they don't know what critical race theory is that these people riled up about something they can't even define like crypto or nft. ask any republican anti- crt trying to explain crt, they sound like a democrat trying to explain the charges against trump. [laughter] it's bad, they are everywhere. [laughter] with got to stop it. we got the files. [laughter] we'll be right back. i have files. [laughter] now rachel, get those files on a rock. i think were republicans, you all would be surprised if you would just be real about what crt is and you will be surp

surprised, they might meet you halfway but you've got to tell the truth, you can't fly to black people. call it what it is, anti- crt policies are an attack on black history and an attempt to erase the contributions of black people from the history books. [applause] that's what it is. you are trying to raise black people and a lot of black people wouldn't mind some of that as long as the lack person is clarence thomas. [laughter] a billionaire named holland probe, plant thomas all over the world like the instagram model taking him to the malls and beaches, pay for clarence thomas house. got to give it up to billionaires. you all come up with something new to buy like just when you think of everything you could buy, a billionaire comes up with a new thing, space rockets,

twitter, this man bought a supreme court justice. [laughter] do you understand how rich you have to be to buy supreme, a black one on top of that? there's only two in stock. [laughter] and he owns half the inventory. we can all see clarence thomas but he belongs to billionaire harlan crow and that's what and nft is. [laughter] everybody's got some scandals so despite the challenging times we live in, i look around the room and i see people that are hard-working. many of you i don't even think should be working that hard. we should be inspired by the

offense in france, they rioted the retirement age went up two years to 64. [applause] they rioted because they didn't want to work until 64. meanwhile in america we have an 80-year-old man begging us for four more years of work. [applause] begging. let me finish the job, that's not a campaign slogan, that's a plea. just let me finish. [laughter] i do wish you the best of luck on the campaign trail. [laughter] mr. president. you got a lot of things going to have to navigate and hurdles. we know about the documents and laptops there's no scandal more damaging than the scandal of, is joe biden awake?

say what you want about our president but when you wake up from that app -- he might doze off but infrastructure bill. [laughter] student loan forgiveness. [laughter] did we free brittany crime or? brittney griner. [laughter] the most scandalous, or madam vice president, the scandal of, what does kamala do? [laughter] a disrespectful question. because nobody ever asked that question the vice president until a woman got the job. [applause] nobody asked.

i don't know what mike penn state, the only thing i know is he's good at playing hide and seek at the capital. [laughter] you got to be crafty to catch mike pence and that capital, he knows all the nooks and cra crannies. [laughter] don't put the camera on her on a mike pence joke. they are trying to set you up, madame vice president. [laughter] at the end of the day, the vice president, the only thing you got to do is be better than cheney. that's the bar. be better than cheney. they made a documentary about him. i don't know much about the job of vice president but i do know if they can make a documentary about your time as vice president, you vice president to incorrectly. [laughter] if the vps job is just waiting to step in to save the country

in case of emergency, the job of vice president is a perfect job for black woman shouldn't be but it is, and whatever you do accomplish, all they will do is give the man read it for it. anything you do immigration stuff, you got all of this banking and the internet down, all of this postpartum stuff, they would just give a man credit. by the way, mr. president, great job at being the first woman vice president of color, i don't even know how you did that part. [applause] wonderful job happy to be here but tonight, tonight is all about you all. the journalists, defenders of free speech, the people who show truth to the world through different mediums, television, print, radio, whatever china let us see on tik tok. [laughter] but the industry that covers all

of these scandals isn't immune to them their selves, the issue is that most people can't afford that. all the essential reporting stuff behind a pay wall. people can't afford rent, people can't afford food, not healthy food, they can't afford education or to pay for the truth. it seems you want to buy a conspiracy theory but at least it's affordable unless you alex jones and would cost you 900 million. we have to put the stuff behind us because the truth is important. people can't afford the truth but you all can't afford to find the truth for free. the work you do as a journalist is important, essential, dangerous. my father was a reporter on the front lines with black platoons in vietnam and the south afr

african, you cover that. [applause] the civil war which we know today by the way, my father came back home and cofounded, he wanted to tell black stories, american urban radio networks, they've been doing it 50 years and is part of what my father wanted to do. [applause] i know it was hard because he loved telling you when something was difficult. i never dropped my tape recorder. [laughter] my daddy told were stories. [laughter] lester didn't laugh at that one. [laughter] turn them off, because the truth of the matter. the cost of people but also journalists and your freedom.

we talked about sitting in russian prison on espionage charges which lacked the foreign equivalent of saying someone fits the description. hundreds of journalists imprisoned all over the world simply for doing their job was got to defend them. most national stories in this country as some time for first a local story. [applause] those stories championed by reporters, many of them have bullet. if we can't figure out a way to pay local, we are only left with that many more spots where the bulls happening. [applause] you hear about newsrooms getting cut, the last two months, cutting people, cutting budgets

but you