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Planning Conferences on Information Synthesis in Molecular and Cellular Bioscience,” followed by an open Q&A session. Questions should also be broad and of potential interest to others. Please register here.
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what is your plan for yes, ma amen? plan for yemen? what is your plan for qatar? here s what we have to offer, but we re not going to give you a blank check. this is what i would say calls for a planning conference. we used to have planning conferences, and this is one that is called for. i think it s also imperative that we have an ambassador in reyr riyadh, which we haven t had in this administration, nor one in turkey. so we have to have leadership on the ground. we have to have relationships with these cabinet members, the other senior leadership of saudi arabia. our intelligence people have to become involved. new york i don t think we can simply demand that the crown prince be cast aside. but i think he s demonstrating right now that he needs a lot of guidance along the way. frankly, the point you just made is a really important one,
necessary the go-to person. the conversation i would envision is what are your plans for the future? you have to understand that you have placed the united states in a terrible position in this investigation, and this affair that has occurred. what is your plan for yes, ma amen? plan for yemen? what is your plan for qatar? here s what we have to offer, but we re not going to give you a blank check. this is what i would say calls for a planning conference. we used to have planning conferences, and this is one that is called for. i think it s also imperative that we have an ambassador in riyadh, which we haven t had in this administration, nor one in turkey. so we have to have leadership on the ground. we have to have relationships with these cabinet members, the other senior leadership of saudi arabia. our intelligence people have to become involved.
rain in the pacific northwest. snow in the cascades and northern rockies. 50s in the northwest. 20s across the upper midwest. 30s in the northeast. 51 in atlanta. and a warm 84 in miami. new developments from ukraine. reports that russia is pulling troops away from the ukraine border, although russian troops still remain in that sovereign country. this bit of hope comes as secretary of state john kerry arrives in ukraine s capital today. u.s. officials are saying the pentagon has put on hold all of its military exercises with russia, as well as any bilateral meetings, port visits and planning conferences. at the white house there is growing pressure on president obama to find a solution to the crisis. there are reports the administration is getting ready to impose sanctions against russia. for more on all this, abc s jonathan karl. reporter: white house officials say what concerns them is when it comes to exactly what is going on on the ground in ukraine, putin seems to be oper
sanctions. the pentagon tonight announced that the u.s. will put on hold all military to military engage maenlts between the u.s. and russia. that includes exercises and bilateral meetings and port visits and planning conferences. when there are international crises like this, when there are cross-border invasions, it s the u.n. security council that is supposed to act to resolve those matters, right? the u.n. security council met about this issue on an emergency basis on friday and they met again over the weekend and then they met again today. and although those u.n. security council meetings led to some very pushy speeches, because russia is a permanent member of the u.n. security council, they have the right to veto anything that goes through that body and so nobody expects that anything useful will actually come through the u.n. it would have to go through russia in order to go through the u.n. security council and it s not going to go through russia. there s also the matter of the