Antony blinken wrapping up a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman within the last hour. The meeting comes just days after the saudi arabia, saudi arabia put a us backed plan to normalize ties with israel on ice. This is the war between israel and hamas escalates. Right now, israeli fighters are preparing to invade gaza after hamas militants launched a deadly attack on israel last week. Thousands of israelis and palestinians have been killed since the attacks and the war began in that includes 29 americans, 15 others remain unaccounted for, potentially being held hostage by Hamas Terrorists. For more on todays meeting between blinken and saudis crown prince, lets go now to molly line in new york. Molly. Hi, marianne. When asked by reporters about how his meeting with the crown prince of this very key us ally went. Us Secretary Of State Antony Blinken said a quick two words, quote, very productive. Blinken has been crisscrossing the middle east since the historic and horri
[background noises] text this is a fox news alert. Rocket strikes ramping up as israel prepares for a massive Ground Offensive on Hamas Terrorists in gaza. Civilians in Northern Gaza scrambling right now to evacuate. Good evening to you. With the special coverage of the attack against israel. It is 11 00 p. M. Here in new york city. 6 00 a. M. And israel and the war now claiming more than 3200 lives since hamas launched its initial attack on israel just one week ago. State department spokespersons conference to Fox 29 Americans have now been killed in israel. And 15 u. S. Citizens are unaccounted for board president bryden vowing to bring those american hostages home. To those Holding American hostages in gaza, you say what . I say we are going to do everything in our power to find them. Everything in our power. I am not going to go into the detail of that. But we are working on it. Those 15 part of a larger group. Hamas has taken over one or 50 total hostages. Israeli def Defense Forc
And outcomes for the United Kingdom, the European Union and the United States. Panel ivets discuss a study on the Rand Corporation about the implications of brexit. The u. K. Will exit the European Union in march of 2019. His is just under two hours. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to all of you and to the Wilson Center for our discussion this morning of brexit. Id just like to open by remembering, go back a year and and f or so, june, 2016, the u. K. Publics vote in favor of brexit felt like a tectonic shift and it was a major change with consequences that were both arreaching and unclear. Brexit changes everything, but how . So businesses, institutions and policymakers have been looking at this ever since. Rands study that were going to talk about today looks at some possible outcomes and what they mean for our Economic Policy and for our cooperation. So im delighted to see many friend of the Wilson Center here today and of rand. Im going to introduce our expert panel and my idea is
Spee5 we are delighted to have you here as president of csi s it is a great opportunity to welcome back ernie when he was secretary was very active with us and we are very grateful as he would talk about oil and gas and Nuclear Energy and about Nuclear Weapons but now we are lucky to have him still staying active and of course he is the cochair my former bosses the cochair with him and i asked he wanted to make remarks he said hell no. [laughter] thanks for being here charlie. Part to be partners with us to raise the important issues of our day. Just a safety announcement for an emergency follow my instructions with the next it taking us down to the street then we will meet at National Geographic and then i will have hot chocolate. I didnt think we had a more qualified individual to be energy of secretary than ernie. If you could design someone who was perfect for the job he knew government, the private sector and has the honesty and objectivity of academia to reflect on government and
Spee5 we are delighted to have you here as president of csi s it is a great opportunity to welcome back ernie when he was secretary was very active with us and we are very grateful as he would talk about oil and gas and Nuclear Energy and about Nuclear Weapons but now we are lucky to have him still staying active and of course he is the cochair my former bosses the cochair with him and i asked he wanted to make remarks he said hell no. [laughter] thanks for being here charlie. Part to be partners with us to raise the important issues of our day. Just a safety announcement for an emergency follow my instructions with the next it taking us down to the street then we will meet at National Geographic and then i will have hot chocolate. I didnt think we had a more qualified individual to be energy of secretary than ernie. If you could design someone who was perfect for the job he knew government, the private sector and has the honesty and objectivity of academia to reflect on government and