and good evening, i'm erin burnett. outfront tonight, the breaking news. this is the north portico of the white house and as i said this is the first state dinner at the white house. the president of the united states anticipated to be arriving with melania trump and the french president and his wife any moment. brigit and emmanuel macron. we've seen some arrivals already. the treasury secretary and his wife along with ivanka and jared trump. you have the full military array there and the president anticipated to be arriving momentarily. obviously this is the first state dinner. it is what has come of a very close relationship between two very unlikely men with completely different political points of view. one aged 40, the other aged 72. it's a pretty incredible relationship that has developed between those two men and now their wives as well. it is a small state dinner relative to the prior ones that we saw with president george w.