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Obama to Make Statement on Iraq

By Steven T. Dennis
Posted June 19, 2014 at 11:17am

President Barack Obama will make a statement about Iraq at the White House this afternoon after meeting with his national security team in the Situation Room, the White House announced.  

The statement in the Brady Press Briefing Room is scheduled for 12:30 p.m. It comes a day after the president briefed congressional leaders on Iraq at the White House.  

   

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