AND THE PRESIDENTS WIFE WOULD
YOU SAY CRITICALLY WOUNDED IN
THE ATTACKS, AND SHES BEEN
FLOWN TO MIAMI, AND AT LAST
CHECK SHES IN CRITICAL
CONDITION.
>> THERES TOO EARLIER TO HAVE A
SENSE WAS WHO WAS BEHIND THIS? WAS IT AN EXCUSE OR A COULD YOU
WAS IT AN EXCUSE OR A COULD YOU
DEE --
DE -- SOME STREAMING INTO THE
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, THOSE WHY
THEY JUST CLOSED THE BORDERS.
THE FACT THERE ARE ARMED GANGS,
NO, WE HAVE NO IDEA WHICH WERE
INVOLVED.
WE KNOW SOME SPANISH WAS SPOKEN,
APPARENTLY, DURING THE
ASSASSINATION.
GIVEN THAT ITS A
FRENCH-SPEAKING COUNTRY, THERES
A VIEW PERHAPS THERE MEANS THERE
WAS SOME INTERNATIONAL
INVOLVEMENT OR SOME SORT OF
PEOPLE WERE PAID THAT WERE
MERCENARIES TO GET ENGAGED.
THIS IS ALL SO SPECULATIVE AT
THIS POINT.
THE REAL PROBLEM IS THAT THE
COUNTRY IS IN A COMPLETE SET OF
DISARRAY.
THE MAJORITY OF THE POPULATION
LIVES IN EXTREME POVERTY.
THEY HAVENT HAD A SINGLE JAB
DISTRIBUTED OF VACCINES SO FAR
IN DEALING WITH THEIR OWN COVID
OUTBREAKS, AND RIGHT NOW THEY
REALLY DONT HAVE A FUNCTIONAL
GOVERNMENT.
LAST TIME A PRESIDENT OF HAITI
WAS ASSASSINATED WAS JUST OVER A
CENTURY AGO, THE UNITED STATES
SENT THOUSANDS OF TROOPS IN AND
DIDNT LEAVE FOR DECADES.
WERE NOT GOING TO DO IT THIS
TIME AROUND.
WERE CALLING FOR FREE AND FAIR
ELECTIONS.
INCONCEIVABLE THAT WILL HAPPY
ANYTIME SOON.
>> ITS ALMOST LIKE A NOVEL OR A
BAD HOLLYWOOD MOVIE, A GANG
LEADERS VERY WELL KNOWN BY THE
NEIGHBOR OF BARBECUE.
SO WHATS THE U.S. ROLE IN ALL
OF THIS?
PRESIDENT BIDEN CALLED THE
ASSASSINATION A HEINOUS ACT, BUT
THIS IS A COUNTRY THATS LONG
BEEN DEPENDENT ON ASSISTANCE
FROM THE UNITED STATES?
WHAT DO WE DO NOW?
>> I THINK -- WE HAVE BEEN
SENDING AID, WE WILL BE SENDING
HUMANITARIAN AID, BUT FRANKLY,
CALLING FOR FREE AND FAIR
ELECTIONS IS NOT GOING TO
ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING.
IN THE LAST ELECTION, 11 MILLION
PEOPLE IN HAITI, AND 600,000
VOTED, WITH MASSIVE
IRREGULARITIES.
ITS CAN WE HAVE SOME BASIC
LEVEL OF SECURITY.
I HATE TO SEE IT, BUT YOU KIND
OF NEED TO SEE U.N.
PEACEKEEPERS.
I HATE TO DO SO IT, BECAUSE THEY
WRAPPED UP A MISSION A COUPLE
YEARS AGO.
THERE WAS SEX ABUSE GOING ON,
UNTREATED SEWAGE WAS PUT INTO
THE WEARATER SUPPLY, BUT THIS IS
THE POORIST AND THE LEAST
GOVERNED COUNTRY.
WE KIND OF NEED TO DO SOMETHING.
>> WE ON THIS HAVE A FEW SECONDS
LEVEL, BUT I THINK ECHOS WHAT UP
Z YOU SAID, A FORMER AMBASSADOR
TOLD "WALL STREET JOURNAL" THAT
HAITI WILL SINK TOO ABSOLUTE
CHAOS.
THOSE ARE HIS WORDS.
HOW DO WE STOP THAT FROM
HAPPENING? >> I THINK THIS IS KIND OF LIKE
>> I THINK THIS IS KIND OF LIKE
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IN BELARUS IF
LUKE
LUKE SHENNO WERE ASSASSINATED.
THATS WHAT WERE LOOKING AT.
THE COUNTRY NEXT TO IT HAS SHUT
DOWN THE BORDER.
TRULY THEY CANNOT GET THEIR ACT
TOGETHER BY THEMSELVES.
IT WOULD REQUIRE SOME KIND OF
INTERNATIONAL INTERVENTION.
I CANT SEE THE AMERICANS TAKING