here for our lead-off discussion on a wednesday night, peter baker, chief white house correspondent for the "new york times." the aforementioned nancy cook, white house reporter for politico. and general barry mccaffrey, a retired u.s. army four-star general, a heavily decorated combat veteran of vietnam and a u.s. ground commander in the gulf war among other distinguished roles. thanks to the three of you for getting us kicked off on a wednesday night. nancy, donald trump has been wanting to have something that feels like a military parade or a military display for more than two years now. something is going to happen tomorrow, but there seems to be a good deal of chaos around the way this is being organized. what are you hearing in terms of the concerns? >> well, really what the concerns are are that there's a question about will enough people show up. the white house and the republican national committee has all of these vip seats they've been trying to off-load. originally they tried to give them to a bunch of high-end