it s not like he s some adviser who is operating without an entire portfolio. he has the family portfolio, which is significant. we have shannon pettipiece from bloomberg news, david sanger, national security analyst, national security correspondent for the new york times and very own abby flores with us as well. the white house briefing has been canceled. we were expecting this to be happening right now. it would be something we would discuss. what s going on with that? one of the reasons the official reason is that the white house says they want the press and the public to focus on guns today. there s an event in the next hour where the president is having lawmakers in. probably more of the real reason is they don t want to answer questions about the security clearance, something we ve seen again and again day after day. it s something they don t want to talk about. there are no answers from yesterday. they re trying to not distract their message. so they canceled the briefin