c, blinking has met with the haitian prime minister gary coney and the transitional counsel. and they're set to discuss the further deployments of international troops to help restore a security as a country ground struggles with gang violence. we can now speak to danny shaw is the professor south american caribbean studies at city university of new york. joining us by skype from new york, welcome to alj, a 0 mister shaw. so the us assistant secretary for the western hemisphere affairs brian nichols gave an on the record briefing to report a reporter is about blinking visit. and he painted a pretty rosy picture, saying hates he has taken important steps forward in the last few months. there's also been economic activity, but the prime minister gary coney gave an interview saying the situation is the worst i've seen in my lifetime. what do you make of that sort of disconnect there and what's going can hoping to achieve the readings doing both secretary of state anthony blinking and brian nichols s feet for the interests of washington in haiti. the truth of the matter is that t