Details will be provided at a formal briefing tonight at twenty hundred hours.

My staff has put together a more formal briefing, and we'll get to that in a moment.

"I assume you don't really want me to give you a formal briefing."

You'll get a formal briefing soon from your seniors.

The idea of a formal briefing is to cover every conceivable base and not hold back from tough questions.

He began the formal briefing, talking rapidly, pacing up and down the room, hands moving constantly.

"This isn't a formal briefing, nothing like it".

Then the first formal briefing of your guys starts at 1500.

In the early afternoon he gives his more formal briefing to the White House press corps.