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00:00How does the White House Correspondents Dinner work. We explain with Legos it's been held here at the Washington Hilton every year since 1968. Guests tend to arrive around 6:00 at tea Street NW what's known as the Reagan entrance the site of the assassination attempt of President Reagan in 1981. Then there's a red carpet. A lot of paparazzi here. The cocktail reception start around this time. There's some on the main floor where there's a mix of journalists politicians business leaders and celebrities. There are more parties downstairs and the president himself attends a VIP reception. Downstairs is also where the main ballroom is yes lined up outside the room about twenty five hundred of them and everyone has to go through security. Then the actual dinner starts. The president will be there naturally. And this year so will Bernie Sanders not attending Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. As of now the president goes on a little later. He's the opening act for a comedian when the comic is done. Everyone is frozen in place until the president leaves and then the real party starts. The after party .

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The White House Correspondents' Dinner... in Legos

Curious how the White House Correspondents' Dinner works? We explain... with Legos. By Matt Negrin. (Photos by Mike Nagle.)

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