With the Charleston church shootings hanging over the country like a malignant cloud, President Barack Obama spoke extensively at an intimate Los Angeles fundraiser about his personal grief over the mass killings that took the lives of two of his friends and seven other people.
“Obviously it was a hard day and everyone was acutely aware of it,” said one person who attended a round table discussion at producer Chuck Lorre’s house in the Pacific Palisades.
Among those listening to the president’s remarks were Kiefer Sutherland, Matthew Perry, Conan O’Brien, director James Burrows, Lorre’s production partner Bob Broder and the Tennis Channel’s Ken Solomon. There were about 25 people at the event, which cost $16,700 per person to benefit the Democratic National Committee.
