operational briefing. they will be briefing the president on the situation in north korea. obviously that has been escalating in terms of these tensions between the u.s., president trump and north korean dictator kim jong-un. in that meeting right now in that operational briefing as it's called right now the chief of staff john kelly, national security adviser h.r. mcmaster, don, we do expect some brief remarks. we'll be waiting to hear what the president says. so far he hasn't said much. he's talking now and i think we can probably listen in for just a few moments, don. >> yeah. we're going to listen to the president. i'm sorry. >> the next nine days. as you know, we just got back from japan where we had a very successful two days. today will be pretty busy and tomorrow also. and then we head to china, and i look forward to that. there's great cooperation.