The lunch epicenter for the National Interests, better than the atlantic council. To top off the excellent lunch we have a great dessert, ambassador john herbst is with us today. The future of ukraine, Ukraine Russia relations. We couldnt have a better speaker to address this issue. John has not only served as the Us Ambassador to ukraine but followed ukraine, the ukraine related issue for many years in his current capacity, running his European Program at the Atlanta Council and having a real in depth understanding for, lets call it eastern priority and Central Asian affairs not only served in ukraine but is pakistan if i am not mistaken but he told me one of his first jobs after leaving the state department was running a program called dealing with complex problems at the National Defense the state department trains you for dealing with complex problems. Without further a do im going to ask john to begin. As traditionally the case, this is being filmed by cspan, we are not following
Going on for 50 years. You know, some of the original attendees who were living in their parents basements for the first comiccon are now living in their grandparents basements. Their own kids living under them. Did you know every year at comiccon at least five people die from getting their cape stuck in an escalator. It also is world emoji day, this is an International Event organized by whom i dont know. But on behalf of everyone at the show, smile eye face with hearts for eyes, prayer hands, prayer hands and a thumb up to you. Some parent are concerned that their kids are using emojis to communicate in kid, and yeah, they r they are doing into. Every emoji is also a sex thing. All of them. Even santa claus has some kind of connotation. But emojis have become a universal language in some ways. And in honor of world emoji day today we decided to put pedestrians to the test. We went out on the street and showed people some common combinations of emojis, like phrases that people use to
Commercial reasons. As often the pharmaceutical joins reportedly mentioned that the job may trigger life threatening side effects. The bullying needs resign analysis town. All the International Coming to life from moscow. Its a pleasure to have you company the us has suspended a shipment of some 3 and a half a 1000 bones to israel. This is over fee is that the munitions could be used against civilians in roswell. Now that has been confirmed by pentagon chief lloyd austin as his report defend this as in washington was interrupted by protest as he did the pause as we re evaluated uh, uh, some of the Security Assistance that were providing to so we, weve been very clear senator as you know from the very beginning that that israel should launch a major attack in or off or without accounting for and protecting the civilians that are in that battle space. And again, as we have assessed the situation, we pause one shipment of high, high payload, munitions. It is a stunning move by washington
Weather and traffic with katie and meisha. Good morning, happy gateway to the weekend. Yesterday we were waking up to wet roadways and started to slow us down, it was really busy. Now they are dry but we have accidents out there. It could shape up to be another busy morning. Cold start as well. Exactly, yes. There is something about that tail wind you brought with you. Yes. It will be a lot cold tore day. Were ten to 15 to 20 degrees colder. So yeah, this same time yesterday. The get you out there and show you first and foremost what is happening on storm scan which isnt a lot locally but the possibility of snow is coming in for us, come tonight. Looking at storm scan three at local zoom and all clear right now. We are expect to go see, eventually though this disturbance move its way from the west. Look at the temperature difference. That is the immediate weather variable you will notice. It is heck of a lot colder in philadelphia and every where else. Take this mental image and lets t