The White House announced this morning that President Obama will sit down with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Thursday for a one-hour long town hall event to discuss “reducing gun violence in America.”

This is the same Anderson Cooper who was just spray-tanned by Kathy Griffin during CNN’s New Year’s Eve coverage:

Gravitas.

It’s weird that Cooper never mentioned this on New Year’s Eve. Must be a totally last minute event, right?

Thursday is also the 5th anniversary of the shooting of Gabby Giffords in Arizona:

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