join me in thanking eric garcetti. [ applause ] >> thank you so much, mayor garcetti, for joining us. our next panel is new faces, new places, a conversation with mayors. and joining rahm on stage are the honorable steve hogan, mayor of aurora, colorado, the honorable ralph becker, mayor of salt lake, utah, and the honorable tom tait, mayor of anaheim, california. and joining ron on stage is amy sullivan, correspondent of "national journal" and director of next economy program which will help moderate. i will turn it over to you. >> hi, amy. welcome, mayors. let me start and amy and i will kind of take turns grilling you, but let me start with a point we discussed with mayor garcetti, which is that although there are a few big cities that have a lot of undocumented by the estimates that would be potentially eligible for executive action, in fact, the best estimates from the migration policy institute is that this sis substantially dispersed, much more than, for example, under ronald reagan in the 1980s. with we hook at the top 20 counties they only account for 40% of the total pool of

i'd now like to introduce ron brownstein and mayor eric garcetti. ron brownstein will be moderating multiple portions of the event today. he's a two-time finalist for the pullser prize and the editorial director. and joining ron is mayor eric garcetti who is the 47th mayor of los angeles. his back to basics agenda is focused on job creation and solving every day problems for l.a. residents. ron, i'll turn it over to you. >> thank you. thank you all for -- thank you for joining us in the cafe next america or the relaunch of play house 90. i'm not sure which. one or the other. mayor garcetti who is my mayor, i'm a constituent these days thank you. i want to ask you a little bit to start talking a little bit about the executive order, the executive action the president is pursuing on immigration and there are a lot of political legal logistical challenges some of which i want to talk about that this action faces. one thing we know already is that southern california is right at the ep iicenter, roughly half a million living there, depending on the esti

mayor eric garcetti is urging residents to save water.e has a little pool help from an adorable tiny cartoon. reminding people of what is at stake. a heart-wrenching statement. water is not angry about your 20 and shower. that is pretty funny; right? >> cut down on water. when they cannot afford it anymore. melissa: are you saying crank the price? >> you know. this is a luxury item to live there. melissa: maybe this will motivate people to save. a newly released letter reveals they are concerned about systemic hazards. they have been watching it closely for about two months. safety issues surrounding pilot records and groom crewmember falsification. >> i only know what i read in the "wall street journal." >> serious stuff. they have had a rocky relationship. who was going to be senior. it does not seem to be a smooth transition. >> jeb lu is moving the scrutiny on passengers. eating smelly food. i know. the video shows a man cracking open a can of tuna. people are gagging on the smell. it is amazing. it occurs when the passenger bus out w

i will turn to mark garcetti. >> my role is to speak for a few minutes and then to put some questions to the experts here before peter opens up questions to the audience. i wanted to talk about what general ham said about sean's book. i think it's terrific to its very clear-eyed and levelheaded but at the same time comes to some scary conclusions. i really for writing it and i think for those who haven't read it yet you will learn a tremendous amount not only that what's happened over the last few decades that the history of contractors and mercenaries in the middle ages. companies like i'm particularly struck by a company called the company of the star. but in the company of a hat which all of these i thought needed further marketing in order to make them sound a little bit sexier. but i think one of the important things about sean's book is that it picks up the theme and one of the important themes of the post-9/11 period which is how war is being waged outside of the big declared war zones with a big armies. so what happened in afghanistan and what happened in iraq with the u.s. mi