leader of syria. i'll also be listening for any mention of iran. remember, before all this revolution started to hit the middle east we were greatly concerned about iran's nuclear weapons aspirations. i'm told it'll get a mention. it's not clear precisely what the president will say. but we do expect him to go about 45 minutes or so having a lot of ground to cover through an era of great change throughout the middle east and north africa. jon? jon: yes. and a lot has changed since he ghei that last big -- gave that last big speech from chi owe two years ago. thank you. jenna: you know, mike made such a great point talking about iran because our focus certainly hassivitied about this -- has shifted about this region and also geopolitics overall. some would say maybe the middle east isn't where we should be focusing, but we should be paying closer attention to what's happening in china. maybe our focus is off. we'll talk more about that with aaron miller coming up. he served as an adviser for six