details his side of the story about the controversial june 9th meeting with a russian lawyer. let s start with nbc s kristen welker, who is at the white house. garrett haik on capitol hill. we were listening to nick con if he sorry on andrea s show saying how unusual it is to have the seal of the white house outside there on a podium like that, something i certainly never saw in the time i covered the white house. describe the mood, describe what we re expecting here. reporter: well, a lot of anticipation, chris, as we await jared kushner. as you point out, this is a unique setting for him to make this type of a statement. what s called the sticks area. this is typically where we hear from officials after they have met with the president. sometimes we hear from interest groups. for example, when he meets with the heads of health care companies, they would come and we shout questions at them after they make remarks. as you can see, there are a crush of reporters here from all the diff