From your keyboard to God's ears.
There was no excuse for him to be over a half hour late. What was he doing during that time? It wasn't going over his speech since that was written days ago and he has TOTUS. So, just what was he doing? Or was it his ego to make then entire world await his presense?
He was going over the list of the journalists to pick for questions. Someone screwed up and put Major Garret on the list. He's now back on track with the detour questioning on Iran.