Dennis Prager Show - DP Show Producer at the White House
Aired: 2019-07-16
Duration: 07:27


=== White House Social Media Conference (07:27) ===

[00:00:00]  Jesse Smollett represents the New York Times.
[00:00:03]  Let us find racism because it is so hard.
[00:00:08]  Let us look for it and even invent it.
[00:00:12]  That is Jesse Smollett.
[00:00:15]  He should be the symbol for Nike.
[00:00:20]  Nike should hire Jesse Smollett.
[00:00:24]  I think that I should tweet that.
[00:00:30]  That would truly be in keeping with the left's theory of how racist America is.
[00:00:38]  Yesterday, there was a conference at the White House social media conference, and among those invited to attend was Prager University and Alan Estrin, producer of this radio show.
[00:00:57]  As well as co-founder of PragerU with me was there.
[00:01:03]  And let's get a first-hand report.
[00:01:07]  You were never in the White House, Alan, were you?
[00:01:11]  Well, that's not quite true.
[00:01:13]  I was there when I was 12 years old.
[00:01:16]  That was the last time I was there.
[00:01:18]  It hasn't changed that much.
[00:01:20]  It all looked very familiar to me.
[00:01:24]  Exactly.
[00:01:25]  In fact, there's...
[00:01:27]  In effect, it was the first time I was here.
[00:01:30]  Yeah, no, I get it.
[00:01:31]  But isn't there a little place Alan Estrin was here?
[00:01:36]  You know, I asked and then kind of shrugged.
[00:01:40]  Uh-huh.
[00:01:42]  That's sad.
[00:01:43]  All right, so what is it like, just emotionally?
[00:01:50]  You know, emotionally it's very...
[00:01:57]  I'm not going to say I was overwhelmed, but I was—you're full of a real, I would say, very healthy patriotism.
[00:02:07]  This is the most famous house in the world.
[00:02:09]  So many things happen here.
[00:02:12]  There's so much history here.
[00:02:13]  And you walk through the hallways, and there are these beautiful—I mean, you've been there, so you know.
[00:02:19]  There are these beautiful portraits of every president and first lady and historical figures.
[00:02:26]  It's an inspiring place.
[00:02:28]  So it's always, I can't say it's always fun to be there because I've only been there twice now, but it was special just to be there, yes.
[00:02:38]  Do you feel the presence of armed guards?
[00:02:44]  No, I didn't feel the presence of armed guards, but I was, first, well, I'll say this, to get into the White House, I went through four different security checks and they all did the same thing.
[00:03:00]  I went through one checkpoint and then I went to another checkpoint and had to do the exact same thing, went to a third checkpoint and did the exact same thing, and then had to go through a metal detector.
[00:03:15]  So they're very careful, obviously.
[00:03:19]  But once you're in, you don't have a sense of armed guards.
[00:03:23]  No.
[00:03:24]  I didn't have that sense.
[00:03:27]  There are military people all over the place in uniform, which adds to the majesty of the White House, I think.
[00:03:38]  Where did this social media meeting take place?
[00:03:42]  There were two meetings.
[00:03:44]  There was one smaller gathering of about 30 or 40 people in the Roosevelt Room on the...
[00:03:54]  I believe it was the west side that could have been the east side of the White House.
[00:03:58]  There was another much larger meeting of 200 people in the east room.
[00:04:09]  How many of these people, how many in either meeting did you happen to know?
[00:04:16]  In the smaller meeting, I would say, if there were 30 people there, I knew.
[00:04:21]  Five and in the bigger meeting, I knew a lot of people.
[00:04:26]  One observation that I will make about the larger meeting, I looked around and I thought, gee, we did a PragerU video with this person, that person, this person, that person.
[00:04:38]  There were a lot of PragerU videos represented in that meeting.
[00:04:44]  Right.
[00:04:45]  I mean, James O'Keefe was there and...
[00:04:48]  A video that we haven't released yet.
[00:04:52]  Another presenter was there.
[00:04:54]  You remember Joy Villa?
[00:04:55]  She was there.
[00:04:57]  Charlie Kirk was there.
[00:04:59]  He's done several videos for us.
[00:05:02]  So what did you take away?
[00:05:06]  You had never met the president in person, correct?
[00:05:09]  No.
[00:05:10]  And I didn't meet him in person this time either.
[00:05:12]  But you were with him.
[00:05:13]  No, no, you didn't shake his hand, but you met him.
[00:05:16]  I mean, in the sense that he wasn't on TV. He was in front of you.
[00:05:20]  Yes.
[00:05:21]  Right.
[00:05:22]  So, is he different in person than you had a sense of...
[00:05:27]  I mean, you've been observing him closely for years.
[00:05:30]  Yeah.
[00:05:32]  No, and I actually thought to myself, well, just the same.
[00:05:35]  There's no difference.
[00:05:36]  And his presentation...
[00:05:39]  It was the first time, as you point out, that I saw him in person.
[00:05:43]  And I know this, obviously, from watching you give many speeches.
[00:05:50]  In person, there's a real atmosphere to the room when somebody's presenting something in person.
[00:05:58]  No matter how you do a close-up on TV, it's different.
[00:06:03]  It's a live event.
[00:06:07]  He's a very impressive person in the way he presents his ideas.
[00:06:12]  I mean, he understands how to present an idea.
[00:06:17]  And to see him work the crowd is something to behold.
[00:06:24]  Because?
[00:06:26]  Because he's so incredibly aware.
[00:06:30]  I mean, it's another thing that I've learned from you.
[00:06:33]  He's so aware of who the audience is and what kind of reaction he's getting from the audience and how to build on that reaction.
[00:06:43]  It's a skill.
[00:06:47]  I'm not sure it's a skill.
[00:06:48]  I don't know.
[00:06:49]  I'm sure you can get better at it, but he obviously has a natural instinct.
[00:06:55]  He is a showman.
[00:06:57]  His events are in some ways...
[00:07:00]  When he's speaking in public like this and mostly off the cuff, it's like a stand-up routine.
[00:07:08]  Just very, very entertaining.
[00:07:12]  All right.
[00:07:13]  Hold on.
[00:07:14]  Alan Estrin, my producer, was at the White House yesterday.
[00:07:18]  1-8 Prager 776. What did they say?
[00:07:22]  I will, of course, be testifying in the U.S. Senate next Tuesday.