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Then. and my seating chart says 261 tables and it is a massive room. we were in a place signing the place cards and the handlers are figuring out who they are representing will be coming in and seegt and nonprofits are now beginning there. is a 6:00 p.m. reception on the terrace that people attend before the 7:30 dinner. we will be speaking with our own talent coming through here, and we will grab andrea mitt can chel and nicolle wallace and -- andrea mitchell and some our correspondent correspondents. >> who is on tap for headlining? >> tonight, michelle wolf who is rocketing right now. she i...

When it comes to syria, they want us to say. when it comes to the iranian deal -- excuse me, when it comes to trade they want exemption. when it comes to paris climate trade what it's going to take to get us back in and when it comes to iran. ainsley: they want u.s. to stay. brian: might be a side deal. a side deal with germany, would you stay in the iranian deal for now as we try to make it better? we have until may 12th to stay or go. ainsley: this is the first state dinner that they have had in the white house since the president has taken office. melania is doing this behind the scenes beh...

Cnn correspondent will ripley who has the very latest on that. interesting seating chart. >> reporter: and believe it or not, erica, they would have actually been sitting even closer but vice president pence switched seats that he could be farther away from the north korean delegation because the official seating chart had actually had the north koreans sitting directly behind him. so that was actually -- they were trying to avoid the kind of optics we saw, that would have been literally one seat, one row behind each other, instead, one row and four seats is how they were able to work it out. ...

Remarkable. you've been inside of north korea many, many times, talked with officials there. is this the kind of propaganda victory that they hoped to achieve? >> reporter: well, certainly to have kim jong-un's sister sitting nearly directly behind the vice president of the united states, it provides legitimacy, it is a way to showcase north korea on a world stage, and keep in mind, yesterday, north korea hosted a massive military parade where they displayed more intercontinental ballistic missiles as once than they have ever have before. if you think that photo was dramat dramatic, vice presi...

As president, but this is a day after day of constantly undermining themselves and their effective and their credibility. it has real reverberations. >> i think this is going to generate a lot, a lot of commotion. >> on a day he's trying to sell the budget. >> there is a lot going on right now. dana, david, thank you guys very much. there is more breaking news, including reaction from a republican congressman on the president's remarks. also an historic moment. the vice president of the united states sitting a few feet away from kim jong-un's sister, the first in the korean dynasty to step...