hasn't directed him to necessarily make added protections. there's definitely different pulses going on. >> shepard: jesse burns associate editor at "the hill." >> thank you, shep. >> shepard: we expect the president to speak at a news conference with the swedish prime minister, a few minutes from now. you heard all that's on john roberts' plate and that from jesse burns. we'll bring that when it happens. reporters waiting to ask questions on a range of topics, including the recent developments involving north korea. but first. >> that is not good. >> shepard: no, that is definitely not good. not good at all. this is bismarck, north dakota. a garbage truck sliding sideways after a snowstorm. and in the northeast, in like a lion, march is not about to be nice. folks all up and down the eastern see board, 40 million people in the line of a crazy