dr. dressler, i think this is been a terrific session. we covered a lot of ground, a lot of issues, we'll be following what happens and the different scenarios and will hope for the optimistic one.but soon. "washington journal" continues. host: welcome to the table tom main engineer. he's the president of the major cities chiefs nger. he's the president of the major cities chiefs association. want to talk about a spike of crimes around the country in big cities. a lot of variables involved such as? >> when we started talking amongst ourselves that the chiefs of the large cities around the country, we all were noticing this spike in homicides and shootings so we decided to get together. we got together just a few days ago on monday. and what we found was that not only were we all seeing the spike in violent crime but commonalities among that and the impact of synthetic drugs and shooting scenes just tremendously larger number of shell casings, wasn't just 1 or 2 shots being fired and now it's dozens of shots fired in some of these thing. w

dr. dressler for sticking her head above water and recognizing that threats go with it, i think more thatneeds to be done. in 1994 elections against the better wishes of the mexican a government we really insisted that it be an open transparent election election and we insisted on having international observers there to make sure of that. that was not well received, but it was done and it was done well. after the election, one of the major civil society and gao asked to see me and we visited he said what should we do next? i suggested they are to start a common cause, which is is what john gardner started in the united states where citizens can elect their representatives, and he shrugged his shoulders and said they will never listen to us. to me it was very discouraging. they are beginning to listen but they are now where they should be, i think the the more you construct civil society to get involved the better future mexico is going to have. in terms of dr. dressler talked about the competitiveness of telecom and broadcasting, that is just beginning and i have great hopes that she expr

dr. dressler, i think this is been a terrific session. we covered a lot of ground, a lot of issues, we'll be following what happens and the different scenarios and will hope for the optimistic one. we've outlined a good remark and hopefully that will be pursued, i think we should come back in six months and see how far were getting on that road. so. so thank you very much for calming. [applause]. for the past seven weeks a series of wildfires have sprung up in 15 counties in california. according to the business insider these wildfires have tried more than 250 mi.2 of california landscape which is already suffering from the worst drought in the last 1200 years. in may, the senate energy and natural resources committee held a hearing on wildfire management with the chief of the u.s. for service, we'll have that for you tomorrow afternoon at four eastern on c-span. >> this weekend on the c-span network, politics, books in american history. saturday and night at eight eastern on c-span, congressional profiles with four congressional members,