person meeting with the iraqi prime minister and stuff alchemy on monday that's checking with patty calhoun live at the state department's in washington. patty, so much focus and all of our focus has been on the trip withdrawal from afghanistan by the 11th of september. what's happening with regards to iraq? this is a very, very different thing. so the foreign minister came out at the state department with the secretary state entity blinking, and they had comments, the normal comments that you would expect about continuing to support looking forward to the upcoming elections in iraq. and that is likely what this is really about. so we, as you mentioned on monday at the white house, they're expected to announce that they plan to have all us combat troops out of iraq by the end of the year. but the foreign ministers been doing a lot of reports with local media saying that they are still going to need the us to do training to do surveillance and intelligence and to do air power. so you might be asking yourself and with good reason, weight aren't pilots, you fly planes, the drop bombs also comb

for september. politicians also backed a halo he to replace children f as the prime minister. patty calhoun is in washington dc and says haiti will get help from the u. s, but not quite what it's asked for. sending in the us military was always going to be a tough ass keeping in mind. president joe biden, bringing troops home from afghanistan, telling the american public he was going to do a costly deployment to haiti, not something the public would likely support. so that seems like that's off the table. says that they're going to send millions and a, they're going to evolve. refugees from have to stay here. program the former president wanted to get rid of. they're going to send people to help with the investigation from the federal bureau of investigation department of homeland security. but definitely said in the message of the military's not an option. what the u. s. wants to see is some sort of political stability. they've been pushing for the elections to continue to happen is as early as september, opposition leaders on the ground. so it's not possible to do that because there's so

organizing his killing just stop the democratic change. meanwhile, political instability is intensify. patty calhoun reports the washington d. c. a sign of how scared people in haiti are a false rumors, spread on social media that the u. s. was giving out the says, a massive crowd showed up at the embassy only to be disappointed that it faced with this reality, the haitian people are left to themselves. they cannot go out. they want to go to safe places. when people heard the rumors saying that the u. s. embassy is giving exiled to the people they came, the patient officials about the us for more than that, a contingent of us troops to help secure the country without asking for the condition of the question. we are asking for more troops to proceed and head us the us, me to report the troops will not be deployed. instead they will send law enforcement to help with the investigation into the assassination of job and elmo eas. his widow also injured the shooting, said this message on social media, not call me when you knew who the president was fighting against these people, hired mercenaries to kill

on monday. patty calhoun, with more from washington, iraq foreign minister, came here to the state department to meet with the us secretary of state. and they spoke to the media, but they didn't really make any news that's expected to happen on monday when her ex prime minister heads to the white house to meet with us president joe biden. they're expected to announce that they will take all us come troops out of iraq by the end of this year. but the foreign minister has been telling the press that he still needs the us military to do intelligence and surveillance. do training to fly for air power. air power is in fact combat. and that's pretty much what us troops are doing in iraq right now. and sources in the putting understand they don't expect that the numbers going to change very much right now. they have 2500 troops in you in iraq, but they're not always supporting the mission in iraq. they're also supporting the $900.00 or so troops, a us troops that are in syria. so we are respect that mission is going to change very much. this is being seen widely as a political move to try and help t

try and call the situation and work towards having those elections, possibly in september. patty calhoun. thank you very much. indeed, a statue of a u. s. confederate general at the center of violent clashes 4 years ago, has been removed from the city of charlottesville, virginia, on lucas cheered as the robert e. lee monument was lifted from the prince, a statue fellow, confederate, general, thomas, stonewall. jackson was also taken away, and there were no signs of the protests of 4 years ago as undergo reports. the campaign is in charlottesville, 4 years to remove the statue of confederate, general and slave. oh no, robert e. lee. on saturday morning, the long battle came to fruition its peaceful crowd walked a controversial figure of this nation's troubled racial. past remove the statue, and another of general thomas stonewall. jackson will be kept in a secure location, both se activists symbols of a shameful past were finally ready to be a community that doesn't telegraph to our public arts that we are pretty fine with white from 4 years ago, plans to move lease to became a flashpoin

now let's pace patty calhoun and she joins us from washington, d. c. that he's, we've been saying some really big offset from having not only of the us, but now also of the united nation. yes, we are hearing reports that they have asked united nations to send in peacekeepers . i believe that would take a blow of the 15 member security council. so that could be a tough ask, ask you the united states military and the military house confirmed to me the department of defense folks burn that they haven't asked for security assistance. and that they are, excuse me, they are regular contact with patient officials to discuss to discuss how the u. s . can assist. it seems highly unlikely that they would consider sending us troops. first of all, the be a fairly sizeable deployment. they did send in, shoot reinforcements during that horrible earthquake of 2010. that's a much different situation. we're talking about having to secure an area, make sure the us troops are safe. it would be very expensive, and it would also probably be very popular. think about this j

well, patty calhoun is across all of this for us from washington d. c. parties. we've been saying that really sounds like this investigation is in moving very quickly. and now the colombians are getting involved it really has been in the numbers are jumps considerably as the day has progressed. now the police chief in haiti is saying that there are $28.00 attackers identified $26.00 of those are colombians. 2 of those they say are haitians not clear if that's the 2 haitian americans that we've been hearing about and 8 or on the run? so the math is a little bit fuzzy for what we're hearing about earlier in the day after the police raid. but the most intriguing aspect of the story is now the colombian defense minister says they were alerted by interpol that these colombians could were involved. and they could have ties to the colombian army, and the defense minister said in fact, 2 of those who been arrested, or at least identified, are former members of the colombian army. and that they are looking into right now, flight records and financial statements, their tim