future of your national security adviser, perhaps asking about north korea. perhaps asking about some other questions and putting these other people up front and limiting the scope of what is going to be asked at a press event. it's clear that the president wants to do that because he was annoyed last time when somebody went off topic. and he said it. and so i think there is one person that people in the white house listen to, and that's the president of the united states. so i think this is his response to what he wants and to what they want. and it's a way, unfortunately, of sort of quieting the rest of the press. >> what did you think? >> yeah, no. i think gloria is totally right. i mean, obviously from the white house perspective, here they have the canadian prime minister. they do want to talk about some of these issues that they put forth in the joint statement, economic cooperation, what have you, national security