Monday, April 27, 2026
4/27/202626 min
This is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.
On today’s edition of The Briefing, Dr. Mohler discusses near horrific tragedy on Saturday night, the move from political motivation to radical attack of terror in the attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, and the drop of federal investigation into Federal Reserve by the Justice Department.
Part I (00:14 – 11:14)
An Attack with Murderous Intent: The Nation Narrowly Avoided a Horrific Tragedy on Saturday Night
Part II (11:14 – 18:41)
From Political Motivation to Radical Act of Terror: The Premeditation of the Attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner Saturday Night
- Correspondents’ dinner shooting suspect called himself ‘friendly federal assassin’ by The Washington Post (Jeremy Roebuck, Perry Stein, N. Kirkpatrick and Emily Davies)
Part III (18:41 – 20:51)
The Silver Lining to Saturday Night: The Reality of the Imago Dei Was on Display in Response to the Shooting at the White House
Part IV (20:51 – 26:08)
Moving On… For Now: Justice Department Drops Federal Investigation into Federal Reserve
- Justice Department Drops Criminal Investigation Into the Fed by The New York Times (Colby Smith, Tony Romm, and Alan Feuer)
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[intro music] It's Monday, April twenty-seven, two thousand twenty-six. I'm Albert Mohler, and this is The Briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview. History often records how close we have come to disaster, and that's exactly what happened on Saturday night. The scene at the Washington Hilton looked more like a motion picture, but it wasn't. It wasn't a motion picture, it was reality. And the reality was that someone intending to assassinate federal officials, including probably the President of the United States, he forced his way, running sixty feet past a security barrier. That was all that was set in place, basically to stop him from going into the dining room, where there were large numbers of journalists and, of course, political leaders gathered in one place for the annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner, often referred to as the Washington White House Press Dinner. And that's exactly what the affair was. And the press were all over the place. So a very interesting development, by the way, in terms of how the press responds to covering a story in which they themselves have become a part of the story, certainly witnesses to the story. The big story leapt into the American attention nationwide because of the fact that this was being streamed live. This was a live broadcast, and Americans were seeing unfolding basically in real time. Millions, of course, saw it just a matter of moments