interesting is sort of definitely this week leading up to the foreign trip and even last week, basically if you saw blocked off the president s schedule b and the goal was to have a lot of briefers, a lot of deputies, a lot of senior administration officials, coming in and preparing him for this trip. and then, of course, the comey news kind of took over and it occupied as we all saw a huge portion of the president s sort of mind space, but my reporting does show that they have been sort of squeezing in some of these briefers and some of these briefings still. it s a process that has sort of been overseen by jared kushner who s the president s son-in-law but started the administration functioning as a shadow secretary of state. now is largely basically also functioning as a shadow chief of staff. general mcmaster has been helping. dina powell who s also on the national security team. so these briefings sort of are going on behind the scenes and the president is getting information, but