russia? >> george, an extremely serious move however you look at it. it is not exactly clear at the moment who this will apply to, the 755 people diplomats, technical staff, combination two of the. and whether or not it will include russian local staff because we know the diplomatic mission employs russians also in various capacities. we do know it will effect not only the embassy in moscow but three other cons lates around russia. as you say, it doesn't look like it'll be cut by more than half. the foreign ministry announced be saying the final number could not be more than 455. the president said the number cut is 755. so it is an extremely serious measure. the problem you can is they are two completely opposing views of this. state department officials told cnn they are assessing how they might respond. russian president putin says it was provoked by an act, the
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