Not will not be at the luncheon. this is according to a united nations handler, who assists the white house tv pool with this information. she did not give a reason. she said they did not rsvp. so it appears from that pool note that president rowhani will not be at this luncheon. we should caution, wolf, as you know from these notes, sometimes they are updated. this is preliminary information and we want to caution our viewer that is perhaps this could change and president rowhani may make an appearance. from what we re being told right now, president rowhani will not be at this lunch. there is time for this encounter to occur. president rowhani does not speak to the united nations until some time this afternoon, 4:00 or 5:00 is the latest as to when he might speak. the obama administration has been saying all week long that they re open to some sort of face-to-face encounter. i heard from a senior administration official earlier this morning that they believe
Least a different approach. these words, these concilliatory words, as he said it, are followed by action. what are we hearing about the possible meeting? i say possible. a lot of us expect it to happen. what are we hearing now? at least the president is at this luncheon with other world leaders inside the u.n. do we know if president rowhani, for example, will be there? i assume if he is there, there will be an exchange between these two presidents. there was a lot of speculation going into the luncheon that perhaps this was the golden opportunity for presidents obama and rowhani to meet with each other, even briefly. in the last few moments, the pool note from the white house tv pool to our viewers who don t know what that is, all of the networks get together and create a pool. one reporter represents that pool to make sure information gets out to all of us because we can t all be in the room or around the president at the same time. the pool note says that president rowhani, quo