able to tell you what year it was. he was making jokes with the recovery room staff. but again, it takes a few days for these diagnoses to come back, because the pathologist actually has to review it and this is what they found, anderson. >> what are the potential next steps? >> well, this is one of those types of tumors that is -- it doesn't have a particular cure. there's not a type of treatment that you can say is going to likely lead to a cure. the types of treatments typically are a combination of chemotherapy, and radiation. radiation to that part of his brain. this is a discussion that i'm sure senator mccain and his family are going to have with doctors as exactly how to proceed. and also, when to proceed. just recovering from this operation as you and i have talked about can take a couple of weeks. even to begin this sort of therapy, radiation therapy, chemotherapy, they have to wait at least three or four weeks at least until after the operation. until after the operation. he had that operation in arizona. that is at the mayo clinic