to cancel it. who is sorry now? still not the white house as republican senators call for an apology for a white house aide's insensitive comments about senator john mccain. silence from the president, the white house, and the aide. manafort ruling. this year marks one year since mueller was made special counsel in the investigation and a judge ruled on the manafort case. jeff zeleny joins us now. the white house, did they have any heads up about this announcement today? >> there was no heads up at the state department, and really across washington, the pentagon as well. it was a surprise essentially to everyone that north korea had suddenly having second thoughts about these military exercises but also the threatening words about the possibility of intervening with that summit which really is only a month or so away in singapore. so certainly people at the white house were surprised by that.