Humanitarian, military and diplomatic response to the syrian conflict hosted by the middle east institute. It is about 90 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, good morning. Im very sorry for the delay this morning. Other news is keeping our moderator busy, but he will be here in five or 10 minutes. I thought in the interest of time and because we are on air on cspan, we should get moving. Ill be giving some opening remarks. I think well get started on some of our opening remarks and then very swiftly alex will be a real start a moderated discussion. First of all, welcome to the middle east institute. Thank you ever so much for joining us to this extremely important event. Someone who is worked on syria and particularly on idlib nonstop for the last nine years, i can safely say that events like this couldnt come at a more important time. Im also not aware of any other events like this one happening in washington these days, so im extremely glad its taken place. The crisis that has developed i
Many you do not see , and for theenes protection of everyone who works ,ere, there are policeman people engaged in basic activities to keep this magnificent structure hereioning, and they come in the midst of a Public Health challenge where most every american has been told, stay home. If you can stayathome, do it. Social distancing, stay a certain distance from yourself and some other person. Yet they come here and we thank them for it. The obvious question, why are we here . We were called back into a week of legislative activities scheduled to be a week or we were home in our individual states. There is a lot for me to do home, and that is true for every senator, from the crises at ohare airport, i was working on that saturday and sunday night. To the issue of closing schools and feeding children and the other issues that are part of this rotavirus challenge. We were told to come back here this week, to fly back from wherever, to come to the capital for two reasons. We have to pass
Social media giants to counter what it calls and the info desk. And there is an on easy come home in the indian capital delhi after 3 days of sectarian violence reached 32. 00 dead but will that last. Im sunni so much going to thank you for joining us governments are ramping up their moves to contain the corona virus says that spreads globally japan is one of those governments the Prime Minister shinzo ave has called for all Public Schools to close from next monday until the end of the spring break in april and this as new infections of the virus outside of china are outnumbering those in china we have a map that looks at the severity of the epidemic in these affected nations and of the deeper the blue here on the map but the larger the number of reported cases as you can see china still has the highest number of reported cases at 78000. All together 50 countries are territories have confirmed cases of the virus and the total stands at more than 82000. 00. Has again seen its biggest on
And because we are on air on cspan we should get moving. Ill be giving some opening remarks. I think well get started on some of our opening remarks and then very swiftly alex will be a real start a moderated discussion. But first of all issa, welcome to the middle east institute. Thank you ever so much for joining us to this extremely important event. Someone who is worked on syria and particularly on idlib nonstop for the last nine years, i can safely say that events like this couldnt come at a more important time. Im also not aware of any other events like this one happening in washington these days, so im extremely glad its taken place. The american crisis that is developed in northwestern syria in recent months is entirely unprecedented. Not just after nine years of war in syria, but in this whole world modern history. And yet despite the sheer enormity of the crisis, the world has really get to do more than issue public statements of concern. Im going to keep my opening remarks p
Higher, the nasdaq also turning positive for the year. And all 11 sectors finley in the green on the s p 500 but, hey, dont look now because over there, in the bond market, yields are still trading near alltime lows, the 10year grows a bit but at 1. 06 yesterday, of course, below 1 so were doing something a little bit different at the top tonight. Everybody ready . Go. Do it, brian. Were going around the table. And i want each of you to give our viewers a simple answer to a sifrp question starting with guy adami. Yes, sir why were we up 1,100 point. The short answer is i have no idea, brian. Thank you. If you ask me to ask, i think joe biden had a lot to do with it you brought up that. Maybe in rert expect, the Global Central Bank nonsense or lunacy kicked in. Maybe we were in an oversold condition. But i got to tell you last night sitting here the same time given the close with the fed news we absolutely retest the 2,900 level. Clearly that didnt happen today. With that said, you know