so we're watching and waiting to see that. it's an interesting dynamic giving that there have been -- we've been talking about on this program a lot of questions about some of the cabinet members that are going to be walking into this room here today sitting with some of the law makers who have been really critical. kristen welker is still with us. kristen, speak to that idea a little bit the dynamics inside this room with the french president delivering in speech, members of donald trump's cabinet in the same place as law makers who have been critical. >> reporter: right. i think you see this contrast of the week, hallie,ed on anderson so some extent the trump administration trying to focus on forl policy this week given the high stakes meeting with emmanuel macron at the same time dealing with controversy swirling around his own cabinet, very difficult questions that he's had to answer. that his senior administration officials continue to get bombarded by questions about, particularly as it relates to the epa administrator scott pruitt who has come under scrutiny for some of his