good day from new york as our live coverage gets under way of what we expect to be a bilateral appearance and two-way news conference on a beautiful day in the white house rose garden. visiting president of romania, we saw the president of romania after arriving in the northwest portico talk to the president of the united states in the oval office. peter alexander, our correspondent standing by in the rose garden. peter, give us a curtain raiser on told. >> reporter: brian, to give you a sense, this is our first opportunity to pose questions to president trump following james comey's dramatic testimony there before congress. this opportunity will psent itself toose specic questions about his comments after james comey accused him, in effect, of being a liar, saying comey is a leaker. we'll be asking specifically if he's willing to testify under oath today if the questions come from the reporters who are likely to pose those types of questions, and we'll probably