my name is christopher jones. i am a member of the stationary engineers local 39. we have then -- we have been out on the line for a little over a month now. we have been without a contract for almost two years. everybody wants a new hospital. we want a new hospital. but at what cost? when this hospital gets built, what happens to the california campus and the pacific campus and the employees that work there? they are not guaranteed jobs. we want the hospital to be built, but it to be built right. they are not going about it the right way. it is up to you to make sure that things go the right way. not having them under cut employees and the neighborhood and everything. thank you. >> how are you doing, commissioners? i am a san francisco resident. i am a member of 1 04. my wife worked at cpmc for four years. i attend a program designed to train and put san francisco residents to work in the construction field. i got an opportunity to join a great company. i recently became an apprentice local hire is important because it is important for families and it keeps the mo

christopher matthews. chris matthews is a reporter at "dow jones news wire." we asked him to take us behind the headlines to tell us about the law getting a lot of press coverage this week, the foreign corrupt bras aktd because walmart is involved in an investigation about violations of it. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> let me show two headlines from the morning papers before we get into the who, what, when, where and why on this. from mexico an attorney general in mexico will investigate walmart. filed in "the new york times." the mexican government stepped up its response to the bribery allegations tied to walmart's breakneck growth there, announcing the federal attorney general of mexico would begin an investigation into the company's actions. president felipe calderon also made his first public comment on

. >> christopher matthews is a reporter at dow jones newswires. we asked him to take us behind the headlines to tell us about the law that's getting a lot of press coverage this weekend. the foreign corrupt practices act, because wal-mart is involved in an allegation about violating it. thanks for being here. guest: glad to be here. host: these are some headlines from the morning papers before we get into this. first, from mexico -- and a related story in the new york times -- i'm sorry, the wall street journal -- o.k. so pleaded a companies that are household names in the u.s., both have allegations of violating this law. what is the history of this law and what is the intent of congress had in passing it? guest: it is a law that has been on the books for a while, passed in 1977 in the wake of the watergate scandal. it came out that corporate treasurers have been giving money directly to the committee to reelect president nixon and the sec started wondering, well, they had these funds and they're going right to the president, so where else are th