Ultimately, we're looking for strong swims to set us up for sectionals. We did that (in this meet). A lot of guys had great swims on the varsity level.

It won't be a lot different for us. The guys are familiar with this pool and this atmosphere. They will be comfortable and ready to go.

His lifetime best in the 500 was 5:11, so that was a pretty incredible drop. Then to do it again there in the 50 certainly says something about his ability as a swimmer.

Brian popped off an incredible swim.

For Vietnam to step forward [on security cooperation], they have to step forward in two directions. They don't want to be roped into a US containment policy towards China. They want the US to remain engaged [in Asia], but they don't want to get too close.

We know over the last year, in the build-up, there had been attempts to get him to step down, to attack his leadership. I don't see the fire from these sparks. It seems to have died out.