Off by thanking George Washington university for hosting the event this morning. And behalf of the center of global interest, my name is mike to sell. I will be very brief so we can get to what turned out to be a fantastic set of speakers. Has kicked off a project that we thought up in anticipation of the 2018 world cup in russia. We started with the premise that everything is connected, that sport is not disconnected from history and politics and anything else. If you dont agree with that, it is not up for debate today. You will have to live with it. The program will include andtional panelists publications in collaboration. It is an opportunity to look at the social, Economic Issues through sport. That is good for two reasons. One, we have all been invited to russia in 2018 effectively. These are rough times for u. S. Russia relations. A rough time for the russian people, increasingly isolated in many respects and an opportunity for something sort of good to happen. The debate over w
Its important we work with our allies and we have to continue to do that. He not going to predict what issue will be inside japanese politics, but i think it is important that as allies, we Work Together. There are risks in the work we do every single day. We understand that going in and we want to prevent any of those risks, but sometimes, unfortunately, we have access. Reporter if you weeks ago, general hodges told reporters about a plan with the united train what is to the equivalent to the International Garden rack and theres a plan to train military forces in ukraine. Do you have enough data on that . Gen. Odierno we do have a plan but we have not made a decision on whether we have decided to move forward on that. If you had extra money to use, where would you use that . Gen. Odierno modernization and no lowern strength than 450,000 as our active component. We have to invest in readiness. Im going to take one more question and barbara, im going to let you let you ask it. I hope i
Macro front. Merkel got things moving a bit. Lets take a look at the tenyear note yield. Were right around 2. 4 but off the highs that we saw, almost 237b9 2. 5. We hit it yesterday. Crude oil at the bottom. Lets get to the road map. A change at the top of twitter. Ceo stepping down. Jack dorsey will be the interim ceo and theyll join us for an interview. And the imf walking out on debt walks and Angela Merkel with new comments. What you need to know to trade. First the ceo of twitter is stepping down effective july 1st. Hes going to be replaced by the cofounder of the company on an interim basis. It comes from amid pressure from some investors who have been unsatisfied with the growth rate. Heres what was said last night during a Conference Call. One of the reasons im stepping in is of the belief i have around our direction and our strategy and specifically around the products. I have a lot of context for it as chairman as talking with the team running it and i do believe that it is r
Macro front. Merkel got things moving a bit. Lets take a look at the tenyear note yield. Were right around 2. 4 but off the highs that we saw, almost 237b9 2. 5. We hit it yesterday. Crude oil at the bottom. Lets get to the road map. A change at the top of twitter. Ceo stepping down. Jack dorsey will be the interim ceo and theyll join us for an interview. And the imf walking out on debt walks and Angela Merkel with new comments. What you need to know to trade. First the ceo of twitter is stepping down effective july 1st. Hes going to be replaced by the cofounder of the company on an interim basis. It comes from amid pressure from some investors who have been unsatisfied with the growth rate. Heres what was said last night during a Conference Call. One of the reasons im stepping in is of the belief i have around our direction and our strategy and specifically around the products. I have a lot of context for it as chairman as talking with the team running it and i do believe that it is r
Macro front. Merkel got things moving a bit. Lets take a look at the tenyear note yield. Were right around 2. 4 but off the highs that we saw, almost 237b9 2. 5. We hit it yesterday. Crude oil at the bottom. Lets get to the road map. A change at the top of twitter. Ceo stepping down. Jack dorsey will be the interim ceo and theyll join us for an interview. And the imf walking out on debt walks and Angela Merkel with new comments. What you need to know to trade. First the ceo of twitter is stepping down effective july 1st. Hes going to be replaced by the cofounder of the company on an interim basis. It comes from amid pressure from some investors who have been unsatisfied with the growth rate. Heres what was said last night during a Conference Call. One of the reasons im stepping in is of the belief i have around our direction and our strategy and specifically around the products. I have a lot of context for it as chairman as talking with the team running it and i do believe that it is r