pentagon correspondents hans nichols. president trump will visit the pentagon for the first time today as commander in chief. what kind of performance and appearance could we expect? we are expecting him to sign presidential directives and give the pentagon orders on how quickly they need to come up with plans to potentially accelerate the fight against isis. now, there is a lot out there in the ether and talking to one pentagon official here saying back and forth and you could arm the kurds directly in syria. that could accelerate the fight. and, you know, in general what we have here at the pentagon is everyone just trying to figure out what this new team wants. not just mattis because he is very familiar with them but what the entire trump national security agency really wants. there haveeen a couple of tips on that. on wednesday night, mattis went over to the white house, had dinner with trump, general dunford and general flynn. i think 11 stars between them, here is a little det