Audio Essay: John Hockenberry Crashes Clooney's Fundraiser

The Takeaway
The biggest campaign fundraiser in history raised $15 million and packed a star-filled house of Hollywood millionaires in LA with the President at the center of it all. A huge chunk of the money came from people who were entered in a drawing for a chance to see it all, to hang out with George Clooney, Barbra  Streisand, Robert Downey Jr., producers like Jeffery Katzenberg, and director Stephen Speilberg. Who would want to be a nobody at a party like that? We wanted to find out, so John Hockenberry crashes the Clooney dinner in this audio essay.
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