white house correspondent michelle kosinski is traveling with the president. she is near the hague monitoring the latest developments. michelle, what's happening? >> reporter: hi, deb. well, meetings haven't really progressed that issue since yesterday, but the big headline has been that they decided to, essentially, suspend russia from the g-8. so, we're talking about the g-7 now. that's the group that is meeting in place of the g-8 summit that russia was supposed to host this summer, and they'll meet instead on their own in brussels. now, because of the way that it works technically, it's not as if they could vote russia out of it. the group is formed by consensus, so russia would have a say in it. but the g-7 broke away and decided, well, there's no reason, as the u.s. put it, to engage with russia at this point, and they decided that they would ramp up sanctions that would hit russia's, basically, their economic sectors -- energy, engineering,