hawaiian chocolate malted ganache. i'm sure the president, you know, from hawaii and vanilla ice cream and tangerines. tangerines are very good right now. >> stephen: oh, yes, they were very good last night! thank you,ship, for that installment of your award winning segment "reading a menu." (laughter) nation, no one, no one, no one on television in the news has more in-depth coverage of white house food than shep smith. why, you ask? the answer? because shep. >> kitty cat, meow, a thousand dollars. snooki's pregnant. >> stephen: folks, last night-- last night was not his only dramatic interpretation of a white house menu. he had been covering the presidential pantry for some time now. in fact, on the day of the state of the union he was invited to the white house for lunch and was the only one with the courage to ask the tough question "are you gonna finish that roll?" >> there is no better food on planet earth than what comes out of that white house kitchen. here is the menu. they had winter lettuces with shaved vege

for dessert, hawaiian chocolate malted ganache. >> sounds good. >> julia louis-dreyfus was seated righthanking the bidens and first couple for an unforgettable evening. >> you can't make that un, right? >> that's pretty cool. she looks so excited. >> absolutely. academy award winner nominee, anyway, bradley cooper, arrived there with his girlfriend, suki waterhouse, who's a 22-year-old model and actress. >> josh collins, first male player on a major american sports team to come out gay is also there. he arrived with brunson green who produced "the help." he is getting chummy with the first family. he was in the box seats for the president's state of the union. >> the president is a big basketball fan, so i'm sure they had a lot to talk about. mary j. blige, looking amazing. nine-time grammy award winner, scheduled to perform for the crowd. we don't know what she sang. but we're guessing something pretty low key since the white house announced there wouldn't be any dancing at this event. >> maybe their feet are hurting from michelle obama's birthday party. like enough -- enough with the

the white house reveals the dessert, chocolate hawaiian ganache as well as chocolate malted cake. >> e have the menu wrong? >> i don't know. maybe they're having two desserts. >> i'm sure there will be plenty. i'm outraged that there isn't going to be hawaiian ganache. >> anyway, if you were going to serve the french president some food, what would you give him? e-mail us or tweet us. i don't know. i love french soups. >> now, a slump in gold and silver imports helps india narrow its trade deficits. for the month of january, the trade deficit came in at $9.9 billion. merchandise exports at 8% while imports fell 18%. new delhi is aiming to keep the current deficit below 50 billion in the fiscal year to march of this year. >>> now, we're joined by rajiv biswa from ihs global insight. these numbers were helped by a 77% drop in gold im punputs. but i see the india trade minister is talking about dropping that right now. >> at a retail level, indians love goal. they have put this tight restriction and levies on gold in order to reduce the trade deficit and current account deficit. but what