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BENOUVILLE, France - President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke Friday on the sidelin stanley tumbler es of a lunch for world leaders attending D-Day commemoration ceremonies, marking their first face-to-face conversation since the crisis in Ukraine erupted.The White House said the conversation was informal and lasted 15 minutes inside a chateau where the leaders ate lunch. It was something that they expected, that they d speak with each other, a senior administration official told reporters during the flight back to Paris. Obama: D-Day is a reminder of struggle for freedom 01:50 As leade stanley tumbler rs posed outside the building for a group photo before the lunch, Obama and Putin appeared to be avoiding each other deliberately. But once inside, they made time for their first such exchange since Putin annexed Ukraine s Crimean Peninsula. As the crisis as developed, Obama and Putin have spoken by phone, but haven t met in person. President Obama underscored that the successful Ukrainian election provides an opportunity that should be taken, Mr. Obama s deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said in a statement. President Obama made clear that de-escalation depends upon Russia recognizing Pre stanley cup sident-elect Poroshenko as the legitimate leader of Ukraine, ceasing Hgzl Heather Nauert s star on the rise as a voice in U.S. diplomatic corps
UPDATED 8:58 a.m. ET CBS News Colin Powell s stanley cup till has not decided whether he will vote for Mitt Romney or President Obama this November.The former secretary of state who famously backed Mr. Obama in 2008 after serving under his predecessor, former President George W. Bush, told CBS This Morning that his judgment is incomplete. I haven t seen everything that Mitt Romney is going to do, Powell stanley quencher said, adding that he may not even publicly announce his choice. I don t feel any obligation to make an endorsement because I am on a book tour, Powell said as he promotes his new book, It Worked for Me: In L garrafinhas stanley ife and Leadership. Asked if Mr. Obama should be worried that he is not backing the president this time after endorsing him four years ago, Powell said his announcement in 2008 was later in the campaign season. You know, I don t feel I m sort of a playmaker in this. I m a citizen who will make my own judgment in due course and I ll either vote that judgment or share with my fellow citizens. Powell also said he does not think the United States should intervene to quell unrest in Syria, which he characterized as a civil war. I think it is really a civil war and it probably has been a civil war for sometime, Powell said. He said policymakers have to ask themselves if someone should intervene, noting that that someone almost always turns out to be the United States. I don t think we can do that. I don t think we shoul
BENOUVILLE, France - President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke Friday on the sidelin stanley tumbler es of a lunch for world leaders attending D-Day commemoration ceremonies, marking their first face-to-face conversation since the crisis in Ukraine erupted.The White House said the conversation was informal and lasted 15 minutes inside a chateau where the leaders ate lunch. It was something that they expected, that they d speak with each other, a senior administration official told reporters during the flight back to Paris. Obama: D-Day is a reminder of struggle for freedom 01:50 As leade stanley tumbler rs posed outside the building for a group photo before the lunch, Obama and Putin appeared to be avoiding each other deliberately. But once inside, they made time for their first such exchange since Putin annexed Ukraine s Crimean Peninsula. As the crisis as developed, Obama and Putin have spoken by phone, but haven t met in person. President Obama underscored that the successful Ukrainian election provides an opportunity that should be taken, Mr. Obama s deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said in a statement. President Obama made clear that de-escalation depends upon Russia recognizing Pre stanley cup sident-elect Poroshenko as the legitimate leader of Ukraine, ceasing Hgzl Heather Nauert s star on the rise as a voice in U.S. diplomatic corps
UPDATED 8:58 a.m. ET CBS News Colin Powell s stanley cup till has not decided whether he will vote for Mitt Romney or President Obama this November.The former secretary of state who famously backed Mr. Obama in 2008 after serving under his predecessor, former President George W. Bush, told CBS This Morning that his judgment is incomplete. I haven t seen everything that Mitt Romney is going to do, Powell stanley quencher said, adding that he may not even publicly announce his choice. I don t feel any obligation to make an endorsement because I am on a book tour, Powell said as he promotes his new book, It Worked for Me: In L garrafinhas stanley ife and Leadership. Asked if Mr. Obama should be worried that he is not backing the president this time after endorsing him four years ago, Powell said his announcement in 2008 was later in the campaign season. You know, I don t feel I m sort of a playmaker in this. I m a citizen who will make my own judgment in due course and I ll either vote that judgment or share with my fellow citizens. Powell also said he does not think the United States should intervene to quell unrest in Syria, which he characterized as a civil war. I think it is really a civil war and it probably has been a civil war for sometime, Powell said. He said policymakers have to ask themselves if someone should intervene, noting that that someone almost always turns out to be the United States. I don t think we can do that. I don t think we shoul