and sarah allyson center for foreign policy studies and she is also deputy director of the katherine ann shebly: davis institute. she is a media fellow at the hoover stanford university, serves on the board of visitors on the level of journalism and a georgetown, the center for free inquiry and hanover college in indiana and business for diplomatic action. she is also a member of the council on foreign relations. please join me in welcoming hallandale. [applause] >> thank you, john, and thank you to all of you for being here today. we are going to have a very interesting program. we tried this video link-up with moscow just once before, this scenario, and i think we are improving on a technique so i think this morning we should have a fairly smooth run by the looks of it. we have from moscow the head of the heritage moscow office and also joined by other commentators over there. as you all know, we are looking at ads in a event in the early years of the obama administration, the summit in moscow on july 6 through 8 with president medvedev. the relationship is in the united states and russia is