and mexico. >> you keep talking about mexico and not talking about demand.ou cover the demand with something quantifiable so that we all can know what -- that all of us are on drugs in this room? where all these drugs going? what is that demand? i'm asking whether you cover that, and why it's not being covered. if it's not. >> well, my research in my book was about drug trafficking, not drug consumption so much. but i think it's easy to get the statistics from the dea or the national institute on drug abuse, the u.s. does have very high levels of consumption of marijuana, of course, but cocaine as well. and math and heroin are a big problem. the numbers are in the hundreds of thousands or millions for all of those drugs. ecstasy is booming as well. that comes often from mexico. so yeah, i'm not trying to whitewash that issue at all. [inaudible] >> fighting drug in such? >> first of all understanding why there is such a demand for the drugs, and second all, what the reason for that is, and then trying to find a solution to that rather than trying to find a wa

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i went to live in mexico in the early 80's i lived in mexico city and was fascinated by this under world of subterranean drug traffickers was with underworld but they're seemed to be so much information in the newspapers about it the never seemed to be arrested they seem to function efficiently and make all this money. i leader live in southern mexico and remember my friends that used cocaine use to buy cocaine from the military barracks. it seemed like the drug issue was starting to emerge and there was knowledge about it but no one was stopping the drug cartels from functioning. i moved to el paso in 1991 and my first semester, my first class as a young professor there was a student who was an immigration authority, immigration agent for the u.s. government used to come to class in his uniform and i found it interesting he wore a gold necklace with a huge gold anchor all the time but he wasn't a very good student then all of a sudden i saw his name and photograph in the paper and he had been arrested for collaborating with a cartel a juarez and a 21-ton load of drugs dustin los angeles

. -- durango, mexico. bobby's death reminds us that the violence of the mexican drug cartels is not in some faraway land but affects us here in the united states as well. this violence must be stopped. bobby's killers must be brought to justice. that is why i encourage my colleagues to support this resolution urging the united states and mexico to bring an end to the gruesome violence of the mexican drug cartels. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from kentucky rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. >> i rise to talk about sergeant campbell from fort campbell, kentucky. he made the ultimate sacrifice in afghanistan while serving with the 932nd civil engineer squadron. his dream was to serve in the mirled and in law enforcement. after graduating from boone county high school in 1992, he joined the u.s. air force. after active duty he spent 10 years working as a pipe fitter in the air force service befor

the decision by mexico to grant asylum was controversy within mexico but nonetheless it happened and trotsky and his wife arrived there in january of 1937. diego and freida about trotsky and natalia to have resided in their blue house than a suburban site mexico city. now course it has been incorporated into the city. rivera was a vital source of funds for trotsky and his first two years selling off his paintings, and at one point even mortgaging his house and nearby to help raise money for trotsky. for two things; one, to support the household as putting food on the table, but also and of increasing importance money for trotsky's protection to pay for guards, weapons and so on. diego and freida borat trotsky's side during the dewey commission hearings held up the blue house in the spring of 1937. the commission being the independent inquiry into the veracity of the moscow trials led by the american philosopher and public intellectual john dewey. the dewey commission eventually by the end of 1937 issued a verdict of not guilty. in other words of the outrage charged against trotsky in

but what we can't stop is to ensure it goes through mexico with the least damage to mexico.th you, you should. i don't see americans wanting to do so, quite honestly. i'm sure there are many who think like you do but there seem to be more who think differently, which is why the united states hasn't sealed off the border not only not from el paso but from brownsville to el paso. there is the other side of the border. it is a 2,000-mile border and a long border to chose off. but if you are willing to spend the money and make the effort to do that, best of luck to you. chris: keowa, washington next. independent line. stpwhrao good morni john: i would like to ask the individual why it is his understanding why our nationñr doesn't engage our own citizenry to the level that we expect other nations to engage their citizenry in regard to this drug probl problem. our nation predominantly is creating the need for it. other nations' citizens are supplying it. why don't we apply the same pressure and intensity of effort in our own land? thank you. guest: well, that is an excellent quest

done. >> oh, geez. >> so now marble-- mexico-- marble-- mexico? i hear mexico won. >> yeah. >> so mister "i can make the "money, i can make the money, "no problem." having a little trouble finding work, aren't you? >> it's a little slow right now. i mean, it's hard to get it sometimes. the fact that you say, "i'm gonna get a job and get "the money and then i'm gonna "buy the thing," okay? makes sense? >> yeah, it makes sense. >> that's what i'm gonna do. >> that is the first sensible thing you have said to me, because now you're prioritizing the things that are important over stuff. so you wanna hear what this week's challenge is? >> oh, we are done. >> don't you just love this? >> no, not so much. >> this is your relationship rescue challenge. >> how? >> isn't a relationship rescue nice when we go to dinner and they-- what is this gail? >> well, you know what? you've built your entire relationship on a very shaky foundation, because you have all this debt. you're going to be required to climb that there mountain. >> no. >> and haul the weight of

but we must ensure that it go through mexico with the least damage to mexico.it is your responsibility to stop at your border. i agree with you that you should. i don't see americans wanting to do so. i'm sure there are many people that think like you do, but there seemed to be more that think differently, which is why the united states have not -- has not sealed off the border. it is a 2,000 mile long border, it is a long border to seal up and shut down. if you're willing to spend the money and make the effort, best of luck to you. >> the independent line, go ahead. >> i like to ask the individual why it is his understanding why our nation doesn't engage our role in citizenry to the level that we expect other nations to engage their citizenry in regard to this drug problem. our nation is predominantly creating the need for it. other citizens and nations are supplying that need. why don't we apply the same pressure and same intensity of effort in our own land? >> that is an excellent question. as a matter of fact, it is a question that mexican governments have

and when it does, then the supply of drugs coming through from colombia or even being produced in mexico will dry up because demand has dried up. up. i quite frankly that is an ahistorical, foolish and e ignorant view of history. chris: chapel hill, tennessee, independent line, tony. john: thank you and thank god for c-span. i'm so tkhrad we have it. -- glad we have it. my question is, by the way the people interested there is a back by gary westbound called dark alliance. it will tell you a lot about the drugs passed through the country and within more thing, if we do stop the war on drugs, the sheriff deputy and police department and c.i.a. and f.b.i. won't be able to confiscate people's houses and money and property and they are going to be out of money. and that will be a big problem. people, marijuana is not harmful. i don't care what anybody tells i. thank you so much for c-span. chris: let's take one more call and that is chicago, illinois, object the democrat line. lucille. john: thraeufpg you f -- thank you for taking my call. i agree with your guest. he has been the most -- i b

made in mexico. it used to be made in usa. production of bowling balls nears a trend in global manufacturing, movement to the u.s. to mexico to china in search of cheap labor. workers here in michigan who made bowling balls were paid $25 an hour, plus bonuses, plus overtime. brunswick bowling said the only way to compete was to move to mexico. leaving empty the muskegon plant they had been making bowling balls in since 1906. the lure for u.s. manufactures is sometimes offset by problems with quality control. >> mexican made pins and balls are not weighed carefully, he says. they're usually too light. so the pins don't fly like they should. some in michigan decided to buck the trend. he made cores for brunswick balls. when they left for mexico, he stayed behind and bet his life savings he could build a better bowling ball in the united states. >> i don't believe that their response due to competition is move offshore and put people out of work here in america. i think the right response is to try to do better engineering. >> re

mexico was a poster child at the time of the imf. but at any rate the mexican crisis unfolded and at that time i was still working for the international monetary fund and there was what the imf calls a mission, it sounds like mission impossible, maybe this but it is a visit we went through indonesia, hong kong, singapore, japan, and it was about five and half weeks long and it was to assess financial vulnerabilities in these countries at that time and you could not go anywhere without hearing news about the evolution of the mexican crisis. and the issue was raised at the time well, you know, a lot of these countries which these were the east asia tigers by and large had had a history of more than a decade of incredibly high growth, low inflation, prosperity, and yet these countries had a very large current account deficits, a big current account deficits financed by borrowing from abroad and a lot of the borrowing was short-term borrowing so-called hot money leverage. people at the personal level at the household level and at the fir

and mexico senate race, the slogan was the integrity to do what's right for new mexico. bob mcdonnell in his race for governor in virginia was a jobs governor. you don't have to have a slogan in your advertising. that's the one thing that is a little bit of a fallacy, at least in our firm, we don't like to use slogans. they sound salesmen like in a television ad. others will say that i'm dead wrong on that, but if you look at most of the barack obama television advertising, they didn't close within aerator saying change we can believe in. or the change we need. you didn't hear it as a slogan at the end of the aggregate might have been on the screen as words, but most of the time it's better for your written materials, your yard signs, your bumper stickers to have a slogan. but not necessary in the tv ads. him a great example of the difficulty in trying to boil down a theme and a message with ronald reagan in 1984. they had a large group of people, holsters, michael deaver campaign manager, round the table. and their message, their theme is going to be leadership for amer

. >>> this man, a school official, was killed on a trip to mexico. what police and his family say about the attack. and this. >>> living in a time of people reconnecting on facebook and my space and that sort of thing, but actually coming together physically for something that was really a special memory. >> they're adults now, but 20 years ago they were third graders who made a pledge with their teacher. how they took a break from their new year's plans for a special reunion. welcome to hln on this saturday, january 2nd, 2010, the first weekend of the new year. hope you're having a great one. >>> washington police are investigating an incident between two nba players who reportedly drew guns on one another in a locker room standoff. joe carter is here with this bizarre story. >> good morning, susan. >>> the new york post is reporting that two washington wizard players, gil ert arenas and javaris crittendon both drew guns on each other. according to the new york post, it was over a gambling dispute. they told cnn washington police are investigating.

howard baker, tom daschle and bob dole has a task force which will be led by pete domenici of new mexico and alice rivlin who served during the clinton administration. their announcement from yesterdas ines. we sw wt out ahoe i >> it is a pleasure to welcome you here today.

his arrest comes just a week after his brother was killed in a shootout outside of mexico city. >>> one of the two nba players who reportedly drew a gun in a team locker room is now talking to the media. joe carter's been following this one and has the latest. hi, joe. >> gilbert arenas spoke to reporters yesterday but didn't get into too many details about the christmas eve incident with teammate javarris crittenton. arenas was careful with his words saying he used bad judgment in bringing guns into the washington wizards' locker room. arenas also said that he does not gamble and that there are misconceptions in the various reports about the dispute between himself and his teammate. arenas wouldn't go into detail about other parts of the investigation but did tell reporters he has a meeting with law enforcement authorities tomorrow. >> gilbert, there's a perception that things went wrong here,

arctic air has already moved into the northern gulf of mexico by this pointment we're looking at chilly temperatures in south florida. cold into the southeast and downright frigid in the northern plains and great lakes. this will be a window week of lake effect snow for you folks and up and down the appalachian chain as well. you typically get a fair amount of snow in this situation. storm system may be riding along a frontal system and stationary front still sitting out in the west. that will continue to cause upslope snowshowers. the next system is starting to show up by the middle of the week. that will spread southward across the rockies. that could bring moisture across parts of the southeast next week also decent snows in the recent rockies as well. still lake effect snow ongoing with cold air sitting in place in the eastern 2/3 of the country. in our next half hour, we'll check the longer range forecast. >>> "u.s. farm report" is brought to you by ag connect expo where the world of agriculture will come together

many believe that he maneuvered us into the war with mexico so we could gain territory from mexicans, which he did. >> texas and california. >> correct, and all of the southwest. he was also negotiating with the british over territory, oregon territory. >> with britain, which was interesting. >> he came very close to going to war with britain over oregon territory. >> it would have been ill- advised, but i do not know. >> it was foolhardy because he was already flirting with war with mexico, and the war between the two of them would have been a disaster. let me clarify to your viewers what this president did in a single four-year term. he brought into the country -- he expanded the coury by 1/3, and brought in territory that represents the three states -- washington, oregon, idaho, parts of wyoming, ponce to montana -- parts of montana, and texas came into his watch. that whole swath of territory was not american when he took over the presidency. it was america's when he left the presidency, and he accomplished that in a single four-year term. >> what are the lessons that he left for

may be along the porous 2,000-mile border with mexico. >> this is the playas area. we're in here. >> kroft: homeland security has spent three years and a billion dollars on a sophisticated electronic surveillance system that was supposed to lock it down. you oversold it. >> we certainly did. >> cooper: so suddenly you're in a jam. >> we were. >> cooper: campaign strategist steve schmidt and his candidate, john mccain, were in such a jam just before the republican convention that he says they rushed into the choice of sarah palin as running mate. the details of how that happened are among the revelations in a new book about the last presidential campaign. >> in the immediate aftermath of her selection, it was clear to us that we had a lot of work to do. >> cooper: what sort of information did she not know? >> a broad scale of national security issues. >> stahl: the woolly mammoth is the first extinct animal to have its genome decoded. and some scientists believe that, one day, they may be able to clone one. that may seem like science fiction, but new breakthroughs in

moving across texas developing an area of low pressure in the gulf of mexico. you see the direction of movement here. this area of low pressure will develop in the gulf of mexico and right up toward us over the weekend stand you recall, that's what happened back in december when we had that big storm. the difference is this time there is no cold air for this to play with. it is going to be mostly rain instead of snow for us. 45 today. lots of sunshine. same thing tomorrow. it will turn a little bit cooler on saturday but still dry with a high temperature near 42 and then the clouds will ticken up on sunday and a good chance for rain. a couple of flakes possibly mixing in late sunday night into monday morning but even then i think it will be mostly rain. really this is not going to be a big deal. don't worry about it if you have travel plans with this storm system. sunshine comes back tuesday and wednesday. >> if you make your living on the chesapeake bay, all of this cold weather probably is not good for business. >> with the bitter cold comes ice and many are

details on what is described as an execution style murder and the american who lost his life in mexico's growing drug war. i'm julie banderas. we're live as "fox reports" tonight. tonight, new information on the attempted attack on an airliner bound for detroit. as the president lays out the strongest connection yet between the suspect and a known terror group. >> gregg: it appears that he joined an affiliate of al-qaeda and that this group, al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula trained him, equipped him with the explosives and directed him to attack that plane headed for america. >> julie: ahead, more on the attempt connection to yemen and what that country is doing to hunt down extremists. plus, it was the year of bernie madoff. >> everybody in my life has been demolished. >> a loss of investor confidence. >> your warranty will be safe. it will be safer than it's ever been. >> julie: bail-out for the auto industry. tonight, some of the biggest financial stories of 2009 and their impact on the year ahead and your wallet. but we start with the latest from president obama, who for the very fi

supplies from the gulf of mexico, saudi arabia, security situations improving in iraq. supply is one. two is efficiency. consumers have actually responded to high prices in 2008. people actually bought smaller cars. >> running out of oil, which one of the things christopher talk absence decline in supply. a lot of people say that's not actually a precursor for the end the world? >> right. well, some people say that you know, the stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones. it are transition to a new energy source before we actually run out of crude. >> you say u.s. oil demand may have already peaked and point out the economy remains fragile. we saw oil prices go down when the economy went into a tailspin. can the economy -- still a weak economy. you know, can you have $100 oil with an economy so weak? >> people say it's not going to recover as past fast as some people. advances we're making in fishssy, if the economy doesn't take off, at least in 2010 you might see prices at $ 0, $70 a bearing. >> one thing, that $4 a gallon sgas and $140 a garral barrel did, it d

steve harris in mexico city for us, thanks. jon: there are new jobless numbers out just this morning, the labor department reporting 85,000 americans lost their jobs in december, the unemployment rate still stands at 10 percent. these numbers are the -- worse than what analysts were expecting. we're likely to hear more about this from the president later today when he makes a statement about efforts to stimulate the job market. let's talk about it with paul jageau, editor of the "wall street journal," host of the editorial report that runs weekends on fox. there were economists who thought we would actually add jobs this time around, right? >> they did and the november results were revised up a bit, 10,000 increase, i think, so that's a smidgen of good news, but this is a disappointing report because we thought fourth quarter growth was going to be pretty good in gdp terms, but of course, for the individuals who have lost their jobs, not so good. >> 85,000 jobs, especially in december, you don't want to lose your job right befo

. >> like mexico and the weather-related story. >> you had the opportunity to go to mexico and cover hurricane jimena. while you are there, i was in southern california covering the station fire. one of the most damaging fires in southern california history and the widespread damage. we'll take you back to that scene. >>> another big story we cannot forget about this year, of course, was michael jackson. the death of michael jackson. >> that was certainly another one of the big stories in the country. the network, certainly, all of us in some way or form or fashion were part of the coverage, but i got the opportunity to go to the apollo theater where michael jackson got his start. the jackson five, the little guy was up there singing. that's where the world first saw michael jackson's talent. thousands of people lined the streets to try to get into that, but two people there were fans and friends of michael jackson. al sharpton, the reverend al sharpton, and spike lee. the famous filmmaker. i caught up with both of the guys. take a look back at the scene. >> everybody is here to cele

we'll see a little system along the gulf of mexico by the middle of the week, rain in that area and into florida as well. the ridge pops in the plains states pushing milder air that way and that's gonna kind of flood the eastern states as we head through the latter parts of next week as well. this is a pretty good storm system coming in out west, already this trough out here is going to be this trough by friday and this is gonna be a huge rainmaker i believe for the southern plains states, gulf of mexico area over into florida. northern jet though kind of keeping the really cold stuff bottled up in canada the way it looks, so unlike the last couple of weeks, i don't see any arctic air coming our way during this week across the lower 48. next week temperatures, in fact we're we're going to go above normal from the great lakes and the northern plains into the northwest. still probably cold because it's january but above normal could be 2 or 3 degrees warmer than normal. below normal from the central rockies throughout most of the southeast as you can see so it's still going to be on the ch

. >> like mexico. >> like mexico.ted story. >> a quiet hurricane season, but had youen opportunity to go to mexico and cover hurricane jimena. i was in southern california covering the station fire, one of the most damaging in southern california history. widespread damage. we'll take you back to that scene. >> another big story we cannot forget about this year, of course, michael jackson. the death of michael jackson. >> another one of the biggest stories in the country. this network certainly, all of us in some way, form or fashion were a part of that coverage, but i got an opportunity to go to the apollo theater where michael jackson got his start. the jackson 5, wee little guy singing onstage. first got to see michael jackson's talent. >> i was working on my coin collection. how about that? >> that's what i was doing in 2009. >> we did a lot. in fact, talked to newsmakers, celebrities, politicians. >> ran the gambit, really did. >> a good show. we're airing it tomorrow morning at 6:00 a.m. >> bright and early. we

this is the city where women have come from all parts of mexico to work their. the income, the work during the day, they go to night school to improve the situation and many of these young women have been killed, a seductive, kidnapped, raped and their bodies found mutilated afterwards and the mothers constantly said to me no one cares and it's true. police did not investigate these cases. there have been no until recently there were no prosecutions and the mother says no one cares. we don't count. we don't count because we are poor women. and the powerlessness of the poor is a defining feature of their life, so it's a discrimination, its sensitivity, its exclusion is deprivation. that is what makes poverty. and these issues are human rights issues. that is why poverty is a human rights problem. the other point that i talk about in my book is how one of these problems reinforces the office of that there is a constant downward spiral from which people once they have been pushed into poverty by these human rights abuses find it very difficult to get out of poverty

his arrest comes a week after his brother was killed in a shootout outside mexico city. >>> one of the two nba players who reportedly drew a gun in a team locker room is talking to the media. joe carter has the latest. hi, jeff. >> gilbert arenas spoke to reporters yesterday but really didn't get into too many details about the christmas eve incident with his teammate. arenas was careful with his words saying he used bad judgment in bringing guns into the washington wizards' locker room. arenas also said that he does not gamble and that there are misconceptions in the various reports about the dispute between himself and teammate javarris crittenton. he wouldn't go into detail about other parts of the investigation but did tell reporters he has a meeting with law enforcement authorities tomorrow. >> the perception that things went wrong here, that someone pulled a gun on someone. that's not true? >> well, i can't, you know, speak on that. but, you know, if you know me, you've been here, i've never did anything violent, anything that's funny, it's funny to me. >> the wizards are certain

the record-breaking pastry in mexico. this massive pastry measured more than 2300 feet long. the sweet bread took 2100 hours to make. used more than 6,000 pounds of sugar. as you can see it was a crowd pleaser. hundreds of people standing in line just to get a piece. >> wow. >> there was the pay off in the end. >> you said 21,000 hours collectively? >> two-1/2 years. >> that would be some really day old bread. >> yeah, i would say so. >>> for those civil war enthusiast hard tack. >>> want news and information, noxious 5 news always on. >>> we're talking myfoxdc.com. geico sports xtra is coming your way next. jay jay is coming into -- dave feldman is coming into the studio right now. (announcer) school mornings are busy mornings. so i make them pillsbury aster strudel. warm, flaky pastry with delicious, sweet filling my kids will love. plus i get box tops for their school. toaster strudel. the one kids want to eat. that, on the list of things kids love, our party pizzas have just passed toy robots. awkward. kids love totino's party pizzas. >>> this is geic

a three buddies had he had out in the gulf of mexico for a fishing trip, a trip that turned into one of the most terrifying ordeals of their lives. while asleep their boat starts going down, taking on water. frantic efforts to keep it afloat fail, so they spend the next eight days clinking to their capsized boat and their sanity. their survival really depending on salvaged beer, crackers. earlier i talked to them about their story, hawkins, philips, kurt hall and the rescuer, eddie. all right. tressel, you're the one. you wake up and the boat is taking on water. take the story from there. what goes on next? >> it was about 12:30. we're all asleep on the boat of course. and my bean bag that i was sleeping in had started floating around a little bit. and i didn't think nothing of it. just thought it was the waves on the boat until it just kind of pushed me to the side. and when i went to adjust myself on the bean bag, i put my foot down and the water came clear up to my knees. and at that time, i just woke up in a shock. and woke james up. and proceeded to wake kurt up. and about that

his arrest comes just a week after his brother arturo was killed in a shoot-out outside mexico city. >>> iran has issued an ultimatum over its nuclear program. it's threatening to enrich nuclear fuel on its own if the west does not renegotiate a u.n.-backed deal by the end of january. this demand came two days after iran defied a deadline by the u.s. and other security council members. the west has been trying to get iran to swap its enriched uranium for nuclear fuel. the concern is iran may use its uranium to make nuclear weapons. iran says it needs the fuel for research. >>> there is no relief in sight for parts of brazil where heavy rains and mudslides are blamed for dozens of deaths. officials say at least 60 people have been killed since rain started pounding southern brazil on wednesday. mudslides buried entire homes and shut down a major highway. rescuers are looking for survivors, sometimes digging with their bare hands. and it is heartbreaking work. but rescuers celebrated when they dug out a toddler whose entire family was killed at home, but the little girl later died in t

host: has this arisen -- because a rise of drugs in mexico?guest: yes, it is kind of like a bubble. you push down in one place and it pops up somewhere else. aunt unfortunately, people want drugs. if they cannot get it through columbia, they will get -- to colombia, they will get it through some worlds. host host: what is going on in argentina? guest: nothing ever goes well in argentina, unfortunately. it is a very rich country that has been very badly governed for many decades. and you have a very populist president, a woman who succeeded her husband as president. the two of them a sort of run argentine as though it were their form or their ranch. nothing is very clear in terms of policy. the central bank has been basically emasculated. the president of the bank is a very fine painter, but he's had no independence since she has come into power. people are beginning to blame the central bank, which is not true, for the mistakes of their administration. what we need in latin america are strong central banks, like chile and brazil. in the banks

. >>> amajor drug arrest in mexico. alleged drug kingpin, carlos beltran leyva has been arrested.ther brother is still at large and listed as one of mexico's most wanted drug lords. >>> washington wizards star basketball player gilbert arenas says it was quote bad judgment to have kept guns in the team locker room. he denied gambling reports and reports that he and another player pulled guns on each other. >>> it's the ultimate couch potato competition. at some espn zones around the country. competitors have to sit in a chair watching sports without getting up. they started friday morning and get a short bathroom break every eight hours. if you snooze, you lose. if you win in chicago, you get a big screen tv and a recliner. >> well, that's appropriate. >> spend the rest of your life sitting there watching tv. >> they're still going? >> they're still at it. >> think espn has a vesting interest in the outcome? >> and free cable, too. >>> it's time for the weather. in for marysol today is j.c. monahan. out of wcbv in boston. >> they brought me inside. there's a lot going on in the no

certainly the government of peru, the government of mexico doesn't and while in brazil under this has deal with venezuela because it is close by i certainly think that actually this dilva is a very wonderful president of brazil. i think he has put his country on a path that is leading it to becoming one of the great powers of the future. other questions? >> i was wondering, in our opinion, you believe that guantanamo is strategically important to our military today. >> now, not right now. since the 1970's and 80's guantanamo has become primarily a coast guard facility and there also is a place is no longer call immigration and naturalization but csis i guess it is, and is a process people there who want asylum. however, there are plans underway to expand the panama canal so that it can accommodate a much larger ship that it has been able to, of course, with the development of very large battle ships and aircraft carriers and freighters and so on. assuming the expansion of the panama canal takes place, once it is completed in then in guantanamo mind as soon echinus strategic significan

if we are going to get our relationship with mexico right, if we are going to help mexico achieve all we have to get a better handle on the enormous problem we have on the border with transnational crime. we have 17 border enforcement security task forces along the border, both along the southern border and along the northern border plus on all of our seaports and you were going to see even more of them in the months and years to come. the exciting thing about these border enforcement security task forces is there not just i.c.e.. we have teamed up in dea, we have teamed up the cbp. we even have representatives from candidate, mexico, colombia. it is a really important and exciting time in law enforcement for is where we are trying to attack these organized groups on a very sustained and aggressive scale. second we are going to spend a lot of time focusing on serious immigration the fences, organized document fraud, a marriage fraud, illegal entry of criminal offenders. we need to keep the system honest and we have to crack down on criminals who seek to return illegally. the truth rec

host: has this arisen -- because a rise of drugs in mexico?: yes, it is kind of like a bubble. you push down in one place and it pops up somewhere else. aunt unfortunately, people want drugs. if they cannot get it through columbia, they will get -- to colombia, they will get it through some worlds. host host: what is going on in argentina? guest: nothing ever goes well in argentina, unfortunately. it is a very rich country that has been very badly governed for many decades. and you have a very populist president, a woman who succeeded her husband as president. the two of them a sort of run argentine as though it were their form or their ranch. nothing is very clear in terms of policy. the central bank has been basically emasculated. the president of the bank is a very fine painter, but he's had no independence since she has come into power. people are beginning to blame the central bank, which is not true, for the mistakes of their administration. what we need in latin america are strong central banks, like chile and brazil. in the banks that

. >>> after end 20g 09 with a record number of drug-related deaths in mexico city, 2010 begins with moreh of the border claiming more lives, including an american. >>> and keeping a new year's resolution 20 years later. former students go back to school to honor a pact they made back when they were in the third grade. if you want to see the weather ahead, push here. if you want to access 10 gigs of music you just downloaded to your hard drive, push here. and if you want to pull away from it all, you can push here. the all-new-40-gig hard drive nav and entertainment system on the 2010 lacrosse. from buick. it's the new class of world class. >>> the danish cartoonists whose drawing of the prophet muhammad angered the muslim world has been attacked in his only. an ax-wielding somali man with suspected al qaeda ties is charged with attempted murder. cnn's phil black has details for you. >> reporter: this man was looking after his 5-year-old granddaughter when danish police say a man broke into his home in aarhus and tried to kill him. westergaard fled to a fortified safe room and activated a

initially it did seem that some manufacturing was going to mexico, but a lot of those jobs in mexico actually ended up going to china and other parts of asia. i don't know. i guess it's argue ble -- argue -- arguable, those would have an impact on manufacturing in any case. and certainly technological change as factories become more automated they just use less workers. there are all sorts of arguments in that. host: minnesota, lynne democrat. caller: my name is duane. host: are you from minnesota? caller: yes. how comes the government don't want people in poverty to get out of poverty? host: what does that mean, dwayne? caller: i'm a disabled veteran and live with my mother or my mother lives with me. if i make any money over -- basically if i make any money they're going to cut my veteran pension completely. ok. i'm also on social security. ok. if i make over $800 a month they're going to cut my social security. so you can't make any money at all if you're sitting in a place like i am and me and my mother can't make it right now the way it is. guest: well, first of all, i want to t

the fight happened wednesday between new mexico mayor harry mendoza in the dark jacket and a newspaperan. the 78-year-old mayor isup set over a story linking him to a 19 1948 gang rape. both men suffered minor injuries and bystanders had to break the whole thing up. the next day the newspaper guy ran the story in the paper. >>> the caps try to win big on the road. fox 5's lindsay murphy is here with those stories. >> a big night for bruce boudreau. it's his 55th birthday so the capitals had some winning to do. they're also on a three-game road trip. they headed into the game with 58 points as they attempt to become the fast esteem in franchise history to reach 60 points. lucky for them that would happen in the first period. no score the capitals in the thrashers zone. they get to face off. it 11-0 capitals. that would be more enough for goaltender. 39 saves in all. the capitals would add on seven more goals. they go on the road. they get a key division win 8- 1. big east rivalries are so strong on the basketball court. case in point tonight's matchup between 12th ranked george towfn an

also, canada and mexico. i understand canadian wages are much higher. guest: i would really need to bring the manufacturing teams to talk about the wage structure. they are probably the right expert on the topic. in general, we are focused on building great cars, trucks, and crossovers. we have a number of examples where we are building some small cars in the u.s. is clearly a competitive environment out there. we are comparing the wage structure. i would say the salt salt [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> "washington journal" talked to several representtives of several car companies this morning. they are in washington, d.c.. next a look at ford motor company. put out by this restaurant, and they have given you the "don't give up the ship" award. what have you done that has led to your decision not needing government money? guest: the most important thing is we had a plan we were working on. we've got financing a bit earlier than others as well. we were able to see what was coming. i think we are proud of the fact we did not ta

eu, canada, mexico, japan and australia we need to work with these countries and figure this out!he answer is not cut that part of the world off and stay in your own livingroom. it is figure it out. chopping capitalism at the knees is not the answer. >> i'm going to bring in jonas here. [ talking over each other ] >> i would think the answer would be technology. get the screening systems in place. >> we have the body scanner that some senators in congress in america think it is too victorian don't want their bodies seen by these sewn sores. that's another story. i agree with schumer on this. i'll be jonathan for a second. this is putting some of the security back in the hands of airlines where a lot of it belongs. it was taken away in private industry in 9/11, given to the government. ultimately you punish airports for not doing a good job. maybe americans will say we are not going to amsterdam. >> my grandmother lives there. >> we have to do a better job with security, because we took away their liability also with 9/11. this is a will have away from capitalism. >> this is not ab

turkey in 1970 and 80s was a bankrupt economy much like brazil and argentina and mexico and did exactly what they did. they asked for help. they said the same thing to turkey as other countries which was to change the economy. you cannot protect these large industries with paris and poor money into them. you have to let them die and put into what the rest of the world was willing to buy. the secular elite businessman, they were dependent on government handouts and government support. the ones who were going to take up this mandate were those not protected by the government which was small-town business. you can go to turkey in the middle of turkey, a city -- a tourist visit in turkey which is not too far -- in the middle of nowhere. and the case study in american terms is something like louisiana. the middle of the country, is not associated with a big metropolis or the cultural hub. it is fiercely conservative, small-town values but also very capitalist. today when you go there, it is one of the major industrial centers in turkey. six or 7% of all adenosine is sold around world are man

another accused drug kingpin in mexico was killed last month by federal troops. a woman who helped hide anne frank from the nazis, and then rescued her famous diary, has died. miep gies was an office secretary in amsterdam. for two years, she and others visited the frank family in their secret annex, bringing food, books, and news. she recalled anne in later years. >> what struck me most as ann's friend was always her curiosity. she always asked me every morning when i came in the hiding place about the things, what happened outside. >> sreenivasan: anne frank and her family were found and shipped to death camps in 1944. only her father survived. after the arrests, gies gathered up the girl's diary. it was published in 1947. miep gies was 100 years old. jean finnegan biden, the vice president's mother, was remembered today at a funeral mass in wilmington, delaware. president obama, former president clinton, and house speaker nancy pelosi were among those who attended. vice president biden delivered a eulogy. >> when we triumph, she was quick to remind us that it

the opportunity to go to mexico and cover a hurricane.ent there i was in southern california covering the station fires, one of the most devastating fires in southern california. we'll take you back to that scene. >> another big story we cannot forget about was michael jackson, the death of michael jackson. >> certainly another big story in the country. all of us were a part of that coverage. i got an opportunity to go to harlem, new york, the apollo theater, where michael jackson got his start. the jackson 5, the wee little guy up there singing on stage when the world first got to see michael jackson's talent. >> just a little clip of our special that aired this morning from 6:00 to 7:00. if you didn't get a chance to see it, you had one other chance tomorrow morning 6:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. eastern time. if you're not up that early, you definitely want to make sure you record it because it's something worth watching. stay with us. the favorite flavor with a fever on top. code orange. when the fever is high enough to be a code orange, you