anchorage, alaska, nbc news senior white house correspondent chris jansing following the president on his trip to alaska. you're in a beautiful spot up there, chris. it's great to see you there. thanks for being with us tonight. >> reporter: my pleasure. >> the white house on the occasion of this trip, this isn't the most important thing about the president being there, but they unveiled this name change, the name unchanging of denali/mt. mckinley. is that actually going to be the big change, the big news announced on this trip or are we expecting other dhangs, other policies to be announced by the president? >> reporter: you always get right to the heart of it, don't you? look, this announcement before the president got here did send an important message. it sent an important message to the natives here, and i've spoken to some of the indigenous people. i spoke to a tribal leader today. this matters to them deeply. we can say it's not important but to them this is something they have been fighting for for decades. to them it really speaks to