Big questioning about the Scottish Referendum is there enough oil here to fuel the nationalists dream, and what happens when it all runs out. Representatives from around 30 countries are meeting in paris to debate how to combat Islamic State. The United States is trying to build an International Coalition to defeat the group in iraq and in syria. Lets go straight to paris and speak to nadeem basha. Francis hollande is cochairing the conference. Do we know the french commitment to the coalition at this point . Its becoming clearer. Francis hollande is cohosting the conference with the iraqi president whom he met in baghdad on friday. This comes as the French Defence minister announced that french planes are taking part in reconnaissance flights in the iraqi air space, helping the u. S. With air strikes, against a Group Calling itself the Islamic State. Clearly Francis Hollande wants to be seen to be a lead nation backing up the u. S. In the fight against the i. S. Group. Francis holland
Wednesday, june 24th and 5 00 a. M. In the east. Happening now new momentum building across the south to banish the confederate battle flag. Leaders in seven Southern States discussing removing the veterans emblem from the state flag to striking it from license plates. South carolina racist killer gunned down nine people in an africanamerican church last week. And protesters are demanding the removal of the federal flag from the State Capitol grounds. Ryan young is in South Carolina with the latest. A lot of debate about the flag behind me, the Confederate Flag. A large group of people came here today to talk about taking the flag down. Across the United States the conversation has now gotten a lot of steam. In mississippi, they are talking about taking that off as well. In North Carolina, and georgia, they are talking about removing the Confederate Flag from statesponsored license plates. In virginia that move has been made. The governor doesnt want it on the license plate any more. A
But what is the motive . Details in a live report ahead. We begin with new calls for a russia investigation this time from President Trump casting suspicion on top democrats. Hallie jackson has the story. Reporter this 13yearold photoop back in focus for the president , trying to turn the russia spotlight to democrats with diversionary twitter tactics, blasting old pictures. Senator Chuck Schumer with vladimir putin, nancy pelosi with the Russian Ambassador in 2010. Official meetings that as senator schumer points out happened in full public view. And he everyone enjoyed a krispy kreme doughnut. Reporter the president clearly frustrated with continued questions about talks with the Russian Ambassador, some only disclosed in the last 48 hour, like carter page, now acknowledging he did talk with the ambassador at the Republican Convention reversing what he said before. Im not going to deny that i talked with him. Reporter and then there is attorney general Jeff Sessions who just recused
Dealt with the u. S. , slap in the face and called for the u. S. Presence in the region to come to an end. Directly after the attack, the president huddled inside the west wing with his National Security team before tweeting, ensuring americans, quote, all is well. We have our team spread across the region to bring you the latest. But i want to bring in retired army general mark kimmic and ambassador chris hill. Former ambassador to iraq and former assistant secretary of state. To you first ambassador hill, your reaction . First of all, i think we kind of dodged a bullet, or i guess a missile last night. This could have gone a lot worse. There could have been casualties and i think any american president would have to response to that. As it is, we may have a oneoff exchange and the question is, where do we go from here . I would like to think that the president understands this was a close call, that this could have been engulfed his presidency in its remaining first term. But im not