all right. you see ivanka trump there. this is just outside the white house. live pictures right outside. moments away because trump will be making his first public comments since he admitted of having no tapes of his conversation with jim comey. this is a congressional picnic. the president will be making comments. the vice president will be making comments to congress and their families. we will see. he should be approaching to speak any moment from now and we are going to bring that to you live. the former assistant secretary for the department of homeland security joins me in the meantime along with our senior political analyst mark preston. thanks very much to all of you. as we await the president, comments he may make, see whether he responds to his tweet. mark, there is this crucial