Bari Weiss—who will have fifteen (!) tables for CBS at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner, her first ever WCHD as well as her first as editor-in-chief of the network—chats with the New York Times’ Maureen Dowd and Michael Grynbaum (who wrote the recent history of Condé Nast, Vanity Fair’s parent company). Vermont Congresswoman Becca Balint, who recently roasted Pam Bondi during her congressional hearing , dishes that she enlarged Christopher Anderson’s photos for Vanity Fair—the ones of Susie Wiles, Karoline Leavitt, Marco Rubio, et al—and put them on her office wall. Meanwhile, former CBS producer Shawna Thomas, who left the network just months after Weiss’s contested arrival, introduces herself to California Governor Gavin Newsom, who simply cannot make it past the grand foyer and into the bustling party on account of the crowd that descends on him. “I’m the political director of MS Now,” Thomas says—or she will be. She starts in June.
Newsom poses for a photo with Oz Pearlman, the mentalist booked to perform at tomorrow’s dinner. “Will you be going?” I ask the governor. He flashes a pained smile. “I don’t think so.” Nearby, someone asks Pearlman whether Trump even has the stamina to speak for a full hour. “Unfortunately,” he says, the answer is very much yes.
