White House Assesses Security After Dinner Shooting | Balance of Power: Early Edition 4/27/2026

On the early edition of Balance of Power,  Bloomberg Washington Correspondents Joe Mathieu and Kailey Leinz discuss security questions raised by a shooting attempt at the White House Correspondents Dinner and the implications of another instance of political violence against the backdrop of King Charles visit to the White House and the ongoing war with Iran. On today’s show, Nonresident Senior Fellow at AEI Heather Conley, Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center Visiting Democracy Fellow Jeanne Sheehan Zaino, Partner at Stonecourt Capital Rick Davis, and FIL CEO Frank Luntz.

Chapters:
00:00:00 – Balance of Power: Early Edition Begins
00:02:56 – Tyler Kendall, Bloomberg News
00:04:58 – Karoline Leavitt, White House Press Secretary
00:22:03 – Heather Conley, American Enterprise Institute
00:29:30 – Rick Davis & Jeanne Sheehan Zaino
00:37:27 – Frank Luntz, FIL Inc CEO
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