agencies which again i'm okay but are we forgetting our mexican partners on this? >> i think as we look at the exchange of intelligence, congressman, it is very robust as i mentioned earlier. >> not talking exchange of information. we are a best relationship. listen to my question. have the money that's been narrowed to million dollars, has any of that been spent to help the club the mexicans or train them at the center? >> the one that is operational now i don't know the monetary figure i really couldn't answer that. i don't know the answer to that question to the estimate let me restate this because my time is up to you know is there any reason to doubt the mexican agency that was given the lead just like the american agency is their anything that would question the statements that they meet that you know of? >> thank you very much. thank you mr. chairman. >> thank you very much. we appreciate it. and if the witnesses don't mind, we would like to flatten ask a few more questions and take the ambassador of on his offer. i would recognize myself for five minutes fo

authorities coordinating on the border with mexican authorities. mr. chairman, i'm very happy that we're having this hearing. i think these issues are very important. i think our goals are io identical. we need to see these criminals and these thugs brought to justice. we need to stop it, and we have a stake in it just as much as mexico does, and i yield back. >> thank you, mr. chairman engel, and i'd now like to introduce our witnesses. first the honorable william r. brown field. ambassador brownfield is the secretary of international narcotics and law enforcement affairs. prior to this appointment, he served as u.s. ambassador to colombia from august 2007 to august 2010 and before serving in colombia, he served as u.s. ambassador to venezuela and chile. thank you so much for being here today. benson is the administrator of the drug enforcement administration. he served as a special agent in charge of the atlanta field division directing and leading federal drug enforcement operations throughout the state of georgia, north carolina, south carolina, an

we see many other than mexicans. the real grande valley mcallen sector leads the nation and rollcall.com with to under 84 individuals as of september 19th, 2011. this is for this fiscal year. if the border patrol catches eight or ten then we have an astronomical number of lowercase them is slipping into the country every year. we've seen groups carrying guns and i will answer questions on that. people from special-interest countries show concern for all of us. our other countries represented in ot and apprehensions include the dominican republic. sudan, eritrea, somalia, sri lanka, nigeria, ethiopia, venezuela, vietnam and more. a dangerous encounters. i found a rancher on the highway after dark who was robbed tied to a tree, shot twice and had his truck stolen by to illegal aliens crossed to the hospital and survived. i have five illegal aliens with sticks and cedar post attempt to take my truck from me when i was leading a ranch gate. counters with smugglers and illegal aliens are daily occurrences and most and the

m stands for mexican mafia. it just shows their loyalty. that's who they're loyal to. at the drop of a dime, any time a certain request is done, they go ahead and handle what they're asked to do or what they're told to do. >> something like this is going to help us validate those inmates we take them off the active gp facilities, put them over in the shu where there's a more controlled setting for them. which protects staff and inmates. >> these are the heavy duty inmates that we want to get off the yard, because they're heavily involved in that criminal activity. >> in addition to the prison gangs, the officers in corcoran also have street gangs to deal with, the most violent and unpredictable of all, the bulldogs. >> the bulldog street gang originated in fresno, that group of hispanic population not being from southern california, not being from northern california, they affiliated or they joined together with the intent of not being governed by any other prison gang. >> bulldogs they're not as organized as your other gangs. they don't have the leadership in their or

are you mexicans? boom! berries. we got 'em. we need you to pick 'em.t but with my country in need i had to take my message to the streets and get our mexicans back. people of mexico, i come from america with a message. we're sorry. we're really really sorry. don't you want your daddy to come to the united states and pick fruit for me? we're sorry for arizona and the taco bell dog. that was really racist. i know. hey, you look like a berry picker. you need a ladder to get in the states. we're sorry good george lopez. he never should have been canceled. he was funny-ish. are all fruits that you can pick in america if you come with me. the more time i spent here, the more i saw that maybe mexico was the new land of opportunity. a place where the fifth most popular correspondent on a basic cable comedy show could make a new life. what hope did an undocumented americano have? perhaps i can find a job that mexicans found too demeaning to do themselves. >> jason jones. (speaking spanish). >> yeah! >> thank you very much. >> reporter: finally, i was home. >> j

-mexican border.e not taliban insurgents or al-qaeda fighters, but a small group of mexican drug cartel bandits heavily armed with ak-47 assault weapons. >> the family is not just left to grieve, but to look for answers. >> every one of the men and women involved in fast and furious can say in absolutely sincerity, men and women who were of good faith and wanted to do the right thing, but they hadn't thought about the consequences of their actions and that inability to look into the future to understand the risks that they were taking is their down point and maybe, although we don't yet know, the reason for brian terry's tragic death. >> a very sad, a very unnecessary story. now if you would like to help the terry family and the family of other fallen border patrol agents, just go to borderpatrolfoundation.org. i get free shipping on all my basspro.com orders when i pick'em up at the store. get free shipping at basspro.com when you ship to the store with no minimum purchase. but think about your heart

more than 300 mexican soldiers have been deployed and the mexican navy is on alert. 100 shelters areican tourists we talked with are doing their best to make sure the storm does not ruin their vacations. >>> tonight is a do or die debate for rick perry and herman cain's rise in the polls is wondering is cain able. >>> in new hampshire, we want to know, when was the very first presidential debate in a general elecon held? the answer for you right after the break. >>> before the break we wondered when the first presidential debatd in a general election was held, 1960 kennedy/nixon debates, and they changed the face of politics forever. incidentally after kennedy/nixon there were no more tv debates until 1976. since then we've had one in every election for president. >>> when presidential candidates hold the debate tonight, many political insider will be focusing on rick perry. his rise to the polls fizzled after two bad debate performa e performances. remember this stumble. >> against the second amendment before he was for the second amendment was before he was before the social progra

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they don't know when the mexican war was. they don't know what the mexican war was about.and it's the job of historians and teachers to bring this alive for a contemporary audience. >> yes, ma'am. >> sorry. oh, okay. um, well, i guess my question -- it's not really a question so much as i wonder, the reason i was studying history and people who lived during that time, i just wonder what it was that was so inspiring and so, that drove them to do all thisment i feel like we've lost something, and i don't know -- obviously, we can't live in the world the same way that they did, but what can we do now, and how can we live our lives that recaptures that sense of destiny and possibility and, just -- obviously, we could get specific. there's -- [inaudible] but what do we do now? >> that's a great question, yeah. >> i believe that the great interest in the founding fathers in the revolutionary war period and now this period of the war of 1812 and after comes partly from if our sense of confusion at the moment. i believe that we americans really wonder what we are up to, what is th

i understand the border and the mexican side. i used to be the chairman of the budget and the texas rangers. i understand that but wanted to give you this as a background. my first question if i could have slide number one and ask you one question. the crux of the report is this. i don't have a problem with what is happening in mexico. it is a violent situation but we have the best working relationship we had with republican mexico in the last 175 years. the cooperation has been a shift in paradigm in working with them. we need to continue working with them but there are two things in the report that really upset a lot of us that live on the border. you make it sound like there are no nice people living on the border. one is your quote was doing business in the border and the border county like doing business in a water still. number 2 citizens on the u.s. border texas side are under constant attack 24 hours a day. those of the points i want to mention that i am focusing on. let me ask you this. if you look at the chart over ther

authorities coordinating on the border with mexican authorities. mr. chairman i'm very happy that we're having this hearing. i think these issues are very important. i think our goals are io identical. we need to see these criminals and these thugs brought to justice. we need to stop it, and we have a stake in it just as much as mexico does, and i yield back. >> thank you, mr. chairman engel, and i'd now like to introduce our witnesses. first the honorable william r. brown field. ambassador brownfield is the secretary of international narcotics and law enforcement affairs. prior to this appointment, he served as u.s. ambassador to colombia from august 2007 to august 2010 and before serving in colombia, he served as u.s. ambassador to venezuela and chile. thank you so much for being here today. benson is the administrator of the drug enforcement administration. he served as a special agent in charge of the atlanta field division directing and leading federal drug enforcement operations throughout the state of georgia, north carolina south carolina and t

or mexican people.econd, as i learned the hard way during my years in colombia is the lesson of strategic patients. i am an optimist, mr. chairman, and i believe we have already made serious progress under this initiative, but it took our two nations years to get into this situation and it will take us some years to get out of it. i thank you mr. chairman and i look forward to your questions. >> thank you, mr. ambassador. mr. benson is recognized for five minutes. >> good afternoon, honorable chairman, ranking members, and distinguished members of the homeland and security committees. thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today on a subject of critical importance. i have the privilege of serving as the drug enforcement administration's chief of intelligence. during my 28-year career, i have witnessed firsthand the evolution of a mexican drug craftiness -- drug trafficking organizations. market today. from my from a supervisory position on the southwest border and from my position as special agen

he pitched for word in two of the three mexicans word dead. the first man who had entered the patio climbed out a win deal was spotted running toward the nearby fields. when helendale approached two surrender within 20 feet he raised to his temple in shot but then blew out his brains. this is the words from his journal. and then turned up no further information. nobody would identify the bodies since the corp.'s were strapped across the hoods of the automobiles. at than racing toward the hacienda outnumbered they were treated with the first man that was identified and it allowed patent to keep the battle in begin referring to him is the band and promoted him. and the exploit quickly appeared in reader's were thrilled to have an attractive hero they could associate expeditions as was the beginning of launching of patent. meanwhile then the rap in the decomposing meccas and -- mexicans were buried and ashes to ashes if they will not very you then it uncle sam us. it struck me on almost every case that there was anecdotes as military history that

today the brazilian economy is 50% bigger than the mexican economy. rise in growothers and we are stagnant and we're still going nowhere. so i am finished, and i would love to hear from you in this dialogue. [applause] >> the senate will hold a joint oversight hearing on the epa browns field program this morning. they are contaminated with toxic substance that this -- the property is cleaned up, and then develop. that hearing gets underway at 10:00 a.m. mr. and on c-span -- eastern on c-span3. >> because i am a businessman -- incidently, of which i am very proud and formally connected with a large company -- the opposition has attempted to picture me as an opponent of liberalism. but i was a level for many of those men heard the word. i thought for the reforms of theodore roosevelt and woodrow wilson will for another roosevelt adopted and distorted it the word liberal. >> he was a member of the democratic party for over 20 years. switching in 1940, when bill will be sought and won the republican nomination for president. although we lost the election,

i'm adding mexican cream. just a little. >> where do you get it? >> in the latin aisles at the grocery stores, or international markets. what it is going to do, it is going to enhance the creaminess of the avocado. >> just a little bit of cream. >> two avocadoes, one to two tablespoons of mexican cream and here we go. you see how smooth? now you can stop and leave it chunky, because you like it chunky. so we left it a little chunky. and then, you know, everybody is getting ready to stuff their pumpkins with candy. >> but you are stuffing yours with guacamole? >> there you go. patty has a series called mexican table on national public television. you can see her there. that is so easy. thank you. be sure to go to j. c. hayward.com and like me on facebook okay? delicious. i like it. come back and visit us at 5:00. thank you.

mexican and u.s.ens and actually used against border patrol. host: several questions on fast and furious. a question from rachel on twitter. guest: first of all, $30 billion of u.s. dollars and consumption drugs go back to mexico. billion dollars, not million. i think what you were referring to with the mexican president is it is closer to $20 billion of mexicans that work here, and not all of them are illegal. mexicansthem are wo working over here. this is why we need comprehensive immigration reform. september dealing with fast and furious, ata has done a good job. in this operation they broke protocol from what i understand. what they do is a controlled system. it will follow the money and drugs, in this case the guns, but they always know exactly where their record to be at. in this particular case they lost sight of the guns. gun walking. secondly, they did not tell the mexican government. not only my understanding did they go south, but some of them state in the west -- stayed in the u.s. they n

that is why this is going to be a big factor in the mexican presidential election. if you talk to people on the streets, people could isolate themselves -- it is something that affected the border region. that is no longer the case. places like acapulco and veracruz are affected. >> thank you 3 much. for more on this, i spoke -- thank you very much. for more on this, i spoke a short time ago to former mexican president vicente fox. you have called for an end to the war on drugs -- because the tactics are not working? >> i am trying to solve this mammoth problem we have been in mexico with crime. it is really an eroding the future of mexico. we have to get out of that trap. need new ideas to finish with that war in mexico and come -- we need new ideas to finish with that for the mexico and come back to growth -- that war in mexico and come back to growth. >> lives against violence will never solve the problem. -- violence against violence will never solve the problem. violation against human rights, violations of due process, do judicial process -- due, judicial proc

during the depression the spotlight shifted to mexican-americans. and mexican nationals. it started in texas, and it swept through the southwest and got taken up in los angeles. between half a million and a million mexicans and mexican-americans were either deported or, quote, voluntarily repatriated during the decade of the depression. many of these were people who had entered -- who had lived in this country for decades having entered the country when there were no controls on the border, when they -- when it did not, you did not break any law to cross the border and live here. because, probably because of the language barrier, excuse me, many of them never became citizens. but they were productive members of society. nevertheless, because of the economic hysteria these people were rounded up and te ported or -- deported or voluntarily repatriated. this next photo is the los angeles railroad train station during the repatriation of one of the repatriation days when people left the country. world war ii, and keep these deportations in mind because they, this whole questi

that is why this is going to be a big factor in the mexican presidential election. if you talk to people on the streets, people could isolate themselves -- it is something that affected the border region. that is no longer the case. places like acapulco and veracruz are affected. >> thank you 3 much. for more on this, i spoke -- thank you very much. for more on this, i spoke a short time ago to former mexican president vicente fox. you have called for an end to the war on drugs -- because the tactics are not working? >> i am trying to solve this mammoth problem we have been in mexico with crime. it is really an eroding the future of mexico. we have to get out of that trap. need new ideas to finish with that war in mexico and come -- we need new ideas to finish with that for the mexico and come back to growth -- that war in mexico and come back to growth. >> lives against violence will never solve the problem. -- violence against violence will never solve the problem. violation against human rights, violations of due process, do judicial process -- due, judicial proc

iranian americans made contact with an under cover dea informant and asked for assistance from a mexican drug cartel to assassinate the am bass tor. this is what sources are telling us at this hour. you can tell us any information you might have on the saudi diplomats, the saudi ambassador to the united states? >> he's a prominent spokesman in saudi government and very well recognized and very well respected in washington, d.c. whether you are part of the government or sympathetic, there is no doubt he was at the jurvethure of a lot of worlds that are critical and for that matter he makes a good target. it's not a secret that the saudi government shares concerns about iranian interest in that region and the saudis and iranians have clashed over a number of different issues including what's going on in bahrain and the struggle between the government protest in bahrain to the sovereignty of particular islands in the persian gulf. for the iranians, whether it's the government we speak of or people sympathetic to their cause. they tend to see the saudis as the local representatives. the targ

mexicans to control its or ask the colombians to do it. there is the request of holding the drove down there. -- holding the drug down there. i am sure you are aware of the price we're paying in mexico, 50,000 lives. 50,000 people have been killed in the last five years. another 50,000 killed. it is estimated another 50,000 are working for the cartel's today. we have 150,000 killed that were not born criminals, that do not carry in their genes criminality. either they paid with their lives or are working for the cartels. the conclusion should be that somewhere along the journey, they lost their way. maybe they lost their way because their father decided to migrate, looking for a better life, to this nation, looking for additional income to bring back to the family. he left the women educating and feeding the kids, taking the kids to school. maybe right from that beginning is the explanation of the part of the problem we are discussing here. maybe those kids decided later that they wanted a in high school or in college or in university. onl

and not just mexicans-- i mean, americans too, especially along the us-mexico border. you've had people from el paso, young... you know, young kids recently, who were killed. i mean, and the other thing that's also worrisome is that i think it's misleading to call this a drug war, because we haven't really seen drug cartels targeting specifically the military. there have been some instances, but it's not really an all-out assault between, you know, the government troops and cartels, which might suggest that the cartels still want to have a pact with the government. you know, they don't really want to go all out. i think when it comes... you know, when it goes all out, it's going to get a lot bloodier. >> hinojosa: but we're talking about how many federal troops now have been mobilized with calderon? >> in ciudad juarez alone, about 10,000 troops there. nationwide, more... i mean, i've heard more than 40,000, more than 60,000 troops. >> hinojosa: okay, and when you look at these troops, alfredo, do you say, "they're going to do the right thing," or do you look at them a

but really to identify mexican-american. because we all latinos, hispanics, puerto rican, cuban or you know we're all hispanics. >> do you think that there is less of us or more of us using that word chicanos? >> i think back in the '70s remember this when the identity crisis and you know the civil rights and i did a lot of marching behind that. because the schools you know all of the things that happened with schools. and unfortunately a lot of people think that's a derogatory -- >> my mom didn't want us to use the word chicano and it wasn't until i got to college and hey i am chicano. >> yeah. what's wrong with knowing who we are, you know? you can call yourself whatever you want but it's better if you know who you are and be it. but i think a lot of people just really don't understand the word chicano but we should be proud. just like anybody else, we all should be proud of who we are, where we come from and what we do, you know? i just happen to be chicano like -- people to know that, that's what i am. doesn't make me be

why would they go to the mexicans? if they really wanted to kill somebody, potentially they could carry it out. well, it still doesn't completely make sense or hold water and that is what they are worried about. however, they do claim that they did have direct information that it was direct d ed at the highe levels. >> and when you hear members of congress come out of a classified briefing and say that the evidence was overwhelming, the evidence could be overwhelming that the suspects wanted to pull it off. does that surprise you, based porch your upon your expertise the cartels would even want to consider something like this? >> i'm absolutely surprised. especially for the money that you're talking about. $1.5 million. >>> that's a drop in the bucket in how much they make on a daily basis. for them to carry out an attack on u.s. soil to draw that kind of attention from the mexican authorities and the mexican government, they would -- it would just be the end of them. i don't think they would be willing to take that ri

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two of the three mexicans were now dead.first man who had reentered the inner patio and climbed out of a window was spotted running from a gate in the southwest corner toward the nearby fields when a fuselage brought him down. when holmdel approached him the man quote held up his left hand in surrender but when holmdel was 20 feet from him he raised his pistol and shot at holmdel. he unfortunately missed him and holmdel blew out his brains. these were patton's words. the search turned up no further -- only card unionist family. nobody would did identify the bodies however so corpses russ dragged across the hoods of the three automobiles by hunting trophies. as they prepare to leave patton saw 40 men on horseback racing towards the hacienda likely intending to rescue card dean yes. outnumbered the americans were treated toward repeal for the first man patton shot was identified as the bodyguard. person allowed pat -- patton to savor his trophies again referring to them as the bandit and promoted him to first lieutenant. the r

and then this amazing wrinkle of using allegedly a mexican hit man or -- >> right. >> -- or mexicans to carry out the plot. it's just as mueller said, it's a hollywood script. >> it's a hollywood script he said with very serious implications and if i remember his phraseology, this would have just been an opening act. >> right. precisely. >> and the saudi embassy, right there neat the potomac and near the kennedy center, you see it each and every day. we don't know -- we know the intended target was obviously a saudi ambassador at a specific rec restaurant but we don't know where that restaurant would have been? >> no, we don't. the understanding is that apparently it's a restaurant that the ambassador frequented and they did not say -- well, they discussed, apparently, allegedly, do you do it inside the restaurant? do you do it outside? >> right. >> and the crucial part for the mexican was to allegedly provide the explosives, the wmd as they have referred to it, which would be used for in this plot. >> a saudi ambassador, conspiracy to commit international terrorism. jill dougherty,

worked with mexican officials.into new york. the more it sounds like a movie plot, but it's quite serious. we've seen such attacks unfortunately even in the united states in the '80s, chile, targeted in washington and assassinated a diplomat. these things have happened before, but it's a very dangerous development. >> they have happened before, but not for quite a long time. what would be the advantage for the iranians, if this is true that such an attack would take place on american soil? >> that is, carol, very sort of con pou c confounding. you saw the protests, shia mine or the in bahrain against a saudi family. saudis also a royal family came to the defense of bobreign. and so you could imagine such a plot. sort of evening the score not only with the saudis against the shia, but also with the united states, who frankly did not sort of chastise the saudis for intervening and you could understand, the saudi ambassador in the united states would sort of, from an iranian point of view, might settle that score. >>

it is unjust for mexicans to have to leave their homeland because their government is corrupt. it is unjust for the government of el salvador to be corrupt and have their people come to this country. that's what i'm talking about. we need to have a new foreign policy that says enough. we need justice for all of these people. >> you know we're going to be talking about this for a long time. >> a long time. >> thank you for being with us. >> thank you. >> coming up next, howard with the forecast. >> j.c., still using the umbrella this noon hour. we're look at live doppler 9000 hd as we go to break. the allergy count was washed out by the rains. you see those sprinkles, especially from leesburg south down route 15 toward manassas, full forecast looking ahead toward the weekend when 9news now at noon returns. >>> some blackberry users are still having problems. the outage spread here to the united states leaving many without e-mail, texting or internet access. that's like a living death. research in motion says that they have fixed the problem but it is going to take some time, you

expected to increase sanctions on tehran two iranians were charged of it trying to hire members of a mexican drug cartel to carry out the attack that's something that's here on dismissed as a comedy show. can reports from washington. the u.s. attorney general explicitly said that the u.s. will be holding the uranian government accountable for the plot to kill the ambassador of saudi arabia to the united states also the u.s. is accusing iran of conspiring to stage two bombings at these really embassy in washington and at the embassy of saudi arabia also in washington and here is how the u.s. department of justice came up with those accusations the f.b.i. and the u.s. drug enforcement agency have arrested a new raney and born u.s. citizen his name monsoor are burps yar u.s. investigators say the man tried to plot the assassination of the saudi ambassador to the united states and for that according to the americans this iranian man turned to members of a mexican drug cartel who turned out to be undercover f.b.i. turney general said the man comes fast in the plot and said he was directed by high

as columbia squeezed colombian traffickers, mexican cartels filled the void.nd as the metadata initiative begins to fight against those cartels, we see them moving into central america. we still face security threats from drug cartels, guerrilla movements, organized crime and trafficking networks. but our job is to stay ahead of the emerging threats. and right now, i believe that a central america. the president made that clear last march when he announced his central america citizen security partnership. our tactical challenges to provide additional resources for central america law enforcement and security programs, like the governments more closely together in regional efforts, engage other partners and supports our essential plan colombia admitted that initiative and caribbean basin programs. and we very much appreciate the committee support in this effort. the committee asked us to consider as well security threats from outside the hemisphere. they may not be as great as those from what end, but they very definitely exists. i served three very long years

i'm not anti-mexican, i am pro- american.ith people all over the world protecting everybody else's business and borders, we do not need to be mexican citizens. host: are you saying to put u.s. troops in mexico? caller: no, i say to keep mexicans in their own country except for those who are here legally and that would solve a lot of problems. guest: thank you for the question. i agree with the sentiment of what you're saying, but i do not think we need to use the military to do it. we can use our border patrol agents. i went to the border. i visited with some of the agents that work at the border. what they need is more help. we do not have enough's border patrol agents on the border. we need to at least double that. this is not just a military exercise -- we to make sure we have boots on the ground. it is not just military, it is border patrol. finish the fence, the double layer expense. and make sure that we continue to invest in and complete all the technology that is available to use on the border. this is not just going

but the idea of using the mexicans is pretty sound. you have thousands of murders being committed daily almost in mexico. you have a group operating in northern mexico that are trained former mexican special forces troops that went rogue. so their ability through their cross-border connections into the united states, their drug distribution networks into the united states, it would be very easy for the cartels to ship explosiv explosives, weapons, assassins, anything they need across the border into any part of the united states they chose. >> but are they open to be hired by the iranians to go ahead and assassinate the saudi ambassador to the united states, these elements of the mexican drug cartel? is that something, part of their usual job performance, if you will? >> i don't think it's usual but part of their job performance is they are an organized crime group committed to making money in any way possible. so the idea of assigning this to a cup el of their people to go carry this out for a million and a half dollars, it could be.

hundreds of thousands of mexicans have been affected by these laws.mexicans, and others are affected. they are from latin america. representation is so key. that doesn't invalidate any of your stories. on the contrary, it makes us unified. whether it was logistics, or whether no mexican was available or whatever, but they are not here. so i really -- but again, i do appreciate your work. i think it is time for you go the next step. i appreciate the panel issue. thank you very much. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker. >> good evening honorable chair person and members of the board. my name is carl cruz, i am with the american immigration lawyers and the national lawyers guild. i want to shed some light and go further than due process deprivation and explain what it is we are looking at in terms of the proposals we saw in 2007 and 2008. evans involved in some minor lobbying efforts. we need to take all this in keeping with what the office could be. on the one hand, we might get comprehensive immigration reform. on the other hand, we might get

agencies which again i'm okay but are we forgetting our mexican partners on this? >> i think as we look at the exchange of intelligence, congressman, it is very robust as i mentioned earlier. >> not talking exchange of information. we are a best relationship. listen to my question. have the money that's been narrowed to million dollars, has any of that been spent to help the club the mexicans or train them at the center? >> the one that is operational now i don't know the monetary figure i really couldn't answer that. i don't know the answer to that question to the estimate let me restate this because my time is up to you know is there any reason to doubt the mexican agency that was given the lead just like the american agency is their anything that would question the statements that they meet that you know of? >> thank you very much. thank you mr. chairman. >> thank you very much. we appreciate it. and if the witnesses don't mind, we would like to flatten ask a few more questions and take the ambassador of on his offer. i would recognize myself for five minutes fo

he hired a hitman he thought worked for a mexican drug cartel but was a d.e.a. agent. >> these individuals had no regard for their intended victim, no regard for innocent citizens who might have been hurt or killed in this attempted assassination. >> reporter: fbi arrested arbabsiar two weeks ago and he appeared in court on tuesday. the other man is still at large in iran. president obama calls the plot a flagrant violation of u.s. and international law, but iran denies the accusations calling them false and baseless. >> the united states is committed to holding iran accountable for its actions. >> reporter: treasury officials have already imposed new sanctions against tehran and the state department is hoping other nations will join the u.s. in pressuring a country it sees as a growing threat. now, there is some debate whether this coninstitutes an act of war since tassassination wasn't carried out. >> a lot of people want to know this. how did officials eventually get their hands on arbabsiar? >> it was a sting operation. he got tricked going back to mexico to