when i left mexico city those operations were not continued. the will to cooperate is there. we might have differences but we need to make the effort. takes responsibility because they are the countries of illegal immigration and they bear responsibility to their own citizens and they have to work with us to stop the flow of illegal migration which the travel for those migrants is dangerous fall away from the time they leave their doors until they get to the united states. we have a tendency to believe the danger coming at the u.s. border and that is the farthest thing from the truth. >> host: portland of the little organ is the next caller. >> caller: i would like to thank the guest for his honesty. in portland statistically speaking we have 6% of hispanics are illegal. we have a large russian illegal immigrant population. they are encouraged by our politicians and towns and cities to get all kinds of free stuff. they give them welfare. they give them food stamps. they give them free housing. all kinds of things. all of a sudden he was hit by an illegal on his motorcycle and

former mexico city mayor, an drez lopez obrador is the left wing candidate. who narrowly lost last time. the leading candidate is a teleogenic former governor married to a soap opera star. he is particularly popular with women and grows huge crowds. >> he is an amazing figure. he is bright. he is energetic. that makes a great candidate. >> reporter: he is from the party known as the pri which ran mexico for seven straight decades before it was voted out. widely accused of institutional corruption. >> i believe it would be a major setback for this country. >> reporter: argues the pri and mexico are much different now and vows to attract foreign investment, create jobs and reduce violence as many wonder if mexico is about to embrace the future or return to a past it once rejected. mark potter, nbc news, mexico city. >>> still ahead as we continue on this sunday, what we are learning tonight about the american student viciously mauled by chimps. why he put himself in harm's way and what may have prompted the attack. >>> later a beloved country doctor making a di

. >> rose: you are in mexico city? >> mexico city. i sort of drop in to milk zero can, mitch zero can, you can sort of see .. boy there is a certain microcosm of one part of the problem in mexico, and tijuana was a place where there was some successful law enforcement and actually reducing public violence and the police chief was getting a lot of credit so i went to look at that in some detail. and it it was sort of disillusioning but interesting. it is not far away and sort of presses upon us, i grew up in southern california so i was in mexico as a kid, i loved the country, actually, i mean, i would go there on my vacations still. >> rose: still? >> still. a lot of these tourist places, cancun, oaxaca really haven't been hit by the violence and even yourself you can go to mexico city and spend a week there and not realize that this country is in a serious -- >> rose: yes. >> even monterrey i was just there a couple of weeks ago and for the election, i was covering some election stuff there, and i was remarking to my colleagues, you

nbc's mark potter is in mexico city with more. good morning, mark. >> reporter: good morning to you, tamron. the results are not yet official but it appears enrique pena nieto will be president as more people, including women, see him as the rock star president. the new elected president of mexico, energy a pena nieto reaping rewards of a near perfect candidacy. he's married to a famous soap opera star. their fairy tale wedding two years ago was a national social event. her home videos became stylishly

mexico. but i don't subscribe to sort of the scare stories about this sort of flood of violence lapping over the border. most of the southwestern border in the united states, the border citiesry low crime, but the question of a failed state in mexico is sort of a melodramatic formulation. because you can -- you do have to look at places in mexico, you know, it is a big country. and you can certainly talk about maces, including places near the border, where state capture is a good description of the situation, where people are very well aware that whatever problems, whatever they may be you don't go to the police they can't do anything. >> rose: so what is next? >> well, i think we are going to see if the new president can fulfill the promises he made in this campaign, which include resurrecting the my, which in that clip calderon said it is growing 5.5 percent. it is lower. it is down to four percent. but it is growing. i mean the thing about the mexican economy is the growth is from the lackluster, it is kind of lackluster and allowed them on an international stage to kind of goat a little bit as europe has spun out of control and brazil is now slowing down, and mexico lo

. >> i'm gracia goya, i'm 40 and i live in mexico city. i work for a us foundation called "hispanics in philanthropy". we're working to promote the development of latino communities. it means i can sit here in mexico city and work for someone in argentina or in guanajuato in mexico, and at the same time for a company in the usa. like so many people in mexico i'm worried about the violence we've been experiencing here over the last few years. i worry about how the authorities are going to stop this violence. my friends and my family make me happy. i love having them around me and spending time with them. i love mexican food from all our regions. it is delicious. i especially like the food from the south-east, it's nice and spicy. i would like to travel to egypt, it has something magical about it. there's so much to learn, i'd love to go there. i go to the movies, i read and i like to go for walks. >> images help us understand what is going on in any given situation. and that's what makes television so attractive. but when there are no pictu

in mexico city, here's bill whitaker. >> reporter: if the last polls are correct, you could be looking at the next president of mexico. enrique pena nieto, the youthful candidate with the movie star looks and soap opera star wife is the fresh face of the old guard. the pri which controlled mexico with an iron fist for most of the 209th century. the auto grat-- autocratic party was booted out of power in 2,000 by the conservative national action party which hopes to hold on to the presidency with economist josefina vazquez mota. she could be mexico's first woman president. running third, andres manuel lopez obrador of the left-leaning democratic revolution party, the favorite of students and workers, who can't believe the country is poised to hand power back to the former ruling party with its legacy of corruption and repression. >> i think it's going to be like a dark, dark years to come, you know. i wouldn't like for him to women because we've been dealing with that for 70 years. >> reporter: but in the 12 years the pri has been out of power, mexico has grown weary of this. the war on

from mexico city, our correspondent, will grant, reports. >> down but not out. even with almost all the votes counted and behind by almost 6%, andres manuel lopez obrador is not prepared to concede the election just yet. the electoral process was unequal and dirty, he told reporters, and he refused to rule out the eventual challenge to the entire boat. >> [speaking foreign language] >> i cannot accept any results until i have complete certainty that the citizens' vote was respected and the elections were not falsified. >> meanwhile, the man who considers himself to be the president-elect, enrique pena nieto, has taken the first opportunity. he has already been congratulated by several world leaders. >> [speaking foreign language] >> i have the opportunity to speak to the president of the united states, barack obama, earlier today. he told me he recognize the democratic process of this country and of its institutions. >> boaters' waking up the following morning had their concerns that a pena nieto government -- voters waking up this morning had their concerns. >>

. >> in oakland this morning, to gas from the mexico city police force are accompanying los oak lawn police officers. >> they wanted to see what the activity was here in oakland california. >> these officers are here to learn about oakland police and how they track criminals and gunfire. in an effort to get better acquainted with american crime- fighting techniques. they describe their daily challenges in mexico city. >> mexico right now is going through tough times, and yes, it is violence. so they have resources where they have even better weapons and weapons they have. >> they learned of the impending visit to the latino association and extended the invitation. >> not only can you provide information on how we do things here, but they will be sharing information with us as well. >> on this ride along a mexican officers watch with a keen eyes, learning what they can through the week. >> my goal is that of course he learns, hopefully there is something that he can see and maybe take back with him to mexico, or learning to a safer method of doing police work. >> let all that this is

mark potter, nbc news, mexico city. >>> still ahead as "nightly news" continues, an american student left in a coma mauled in a vicious chimp attack. what went wrong at a world famous sanctuary. >>> later, 10,000 diamonds on display. a jaw-dropping collection fit for a queen. >>> it was a sanctuary, a place where threatened animals found a safe haven, but tonight a young american that worked at the sanctuary whose life is in danger after he was attacked by a pair of chimpanzees. michelle franzen has our story. >> reporter: texas grad student andrew oberly is fighting for his life. the sanctuary featured on animal planet's "escape to chimp eden" houses kimchimps rescued. they say he suffered deep lacerations on his entire body. >> he's in critical condition, remains in a critical condition. he's under observation in intensive care. >> reporter: he was giving a tour thursday who he split from the group, crossing over one of two fences separating the public from the chimpanzees. two male chimps attacked him, grabbing his feet and pulls him under a second fence into the enclosure. they d

will grant, bbc news, mexico city. >> for more on the significance of this result, i am joined by steven johnson. thank you very much for coming in. assuming that he is confirmed as the next president, he promised a change of direction. how much change can we expect? >> not much, initially. he has to take assessment of what he is walking into with this. remember, all of the candidates experienced a degree of change over the campaign. they came into the campaign without concrete ideas, yet they kept hearing things from the mexican public about where they wanted the country to go, especially this student movement, which is beginning to see different things come out. >> let's talk, initially, about the drug war. it has dominated headlines in the united states. it has been very controversial. can we expect him to say that he will pull troops back from the streets and take a new approach? >> i do not think so. i think he will take a look at what he has got, the army and the navy, helping the police. he has got to get them up to speed on the local and state levels. they are very much part of t

you will hear them come up numerous times one of the leading public universities of mexico and mexico city and the center for research and economic teaching in mexico and wilson center had a close relationship. joy is an expert on democracy and has been working lately. most recently on the issue of the pri and the party of the institutional revolution and now regained the presidency after a 12-year hiatus. very appropriate research and timely research for us to hear from joy on the meeting of this election. then we will hear from a very good friend and colleague, associate professor at the paul nicci school of studies at johns hopkins university and a mexican who divides his time between washington, d.c. and mexico. we appeared together last week. you will see that he spent a week or ten days around the election. so has a lot to tell us firsthand at the academic research. last but not least, we have invited our new wilson center visiting scholar who has been a long time friend of the mexico institute. also a professor in mexico city, but on a year long sabbatical spending some of his time

nbc's mark potter is in mexico city with more. >> reporter: declaring victory before cheering supporters enrique pena nieto promised to jump-start mexico's sluggish economy. [ speaking in other language ] and to offer no deal, no break to those involved in organized crime. in a country ravaged by a vicious six-year drug war which cost 55,000 lives pena nieto says he will use a new strategy to combat violence -- a promise that worries many in the u.s. >> he's trying to look at this in the way most mexican citizens do. they're not worried about drug cartels. they're not worried about king pins. they're worried about commonplace violence happening in their communities. >> reporter: pena nieto's election returns to power the political party known as the pri which ran mexico for 71 straight years until it was voted out 12 years ago, accused of widespread corruption and ties to drug cartels. pena nieto claims the pri is different now, but many are skeptical. >> no. there is no sign the pri is really willing to take on corruption because they are the party that has most benefited from corruptio

i am joined on the line by our reporter in mexico city. as enrique pena nieto really one this poll?well, although the pri candidate is the head of the polls today, the official winner of the elections is not declared yet. however, if there is no second round of voting, you can assume he will be mexico's next president. 38% of the vote. 6% above the leftist candidate. >> his main rival andres manuel lopez obrador has refused to concede defeat. could we see a repeat of the political paralysis caused by protests on the street six years ago? >> yeah, the candidate, obrador, remain skeptical of the official results announced last night. she said she will wait for the official results. but he assured that -- [unintelligible] back in 2006 when he lost the presidential election by a mere 0.5% of the vote. >> what is likely to be the first order of business for pena nieto? >> the newly elected president will have to tackle the pressure of the changes in the economy. to achieve this, his party and the opposition must work together in congress to begin the much-needed economic reforms. he need

what i did in mexico city, i believe that i was going to reap the benefit, and i did. benefit of honesty. >> i am trying to think of this 20-something athlete, you doing that in 1968, giving that silly, and 40 years later, the first african-american president in your country -- giving that salute. you could have never believed it. >> no, i could never have believed that would be happening. only through the issue spaces of life that were granted to me, i did what i could to promote a proactive american situation. that is what is happening now. even now with him being what it is, we're is, i think as president, he happens to be black, but there are those on his side no matter what he does, and for some, it is not good enough. i think they would shoot themselves just to hurt them. >> if anybody knows where that glove is -- >> i will split the cost. bring it on. >> if we find it, we will make sure you get it. >> gavin esler speaking to tommie smith about the 1968 games. the old church-the 2012 athletes will be at the opening ceremony, and you probably would not think of th

abc's cecilia reports from mexico city. [silence] >> all right. chnical glitch there. we will try to get back to that story. a pretty important election there in mexico today. the upstate new york school bus monitor who was bullied by four seventh grade boys said she is satisfied that they are being suspended for a year. the students videotaped themselves taunting the 68-year-old on the bus. part of their punishment includes 50 hours of community service with senior citizens. skins the video was posted on youtube, karen kline has received an outpouring of support from strangers. she says she's ready to talk to the boys who tormented her. >> i would like to meet them face-to-face and ask them why they did it. >> she says the best part of showing her ordeal to the public is that it has inspired parents to talk to their kids and teach them what they should not do. >>> a two-year-old girl is home with her family this morning of a battling a mysterious disease that put her in a coma. the illness was finally diagnosed by doctors at children's hospital in

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we've lost the signal from mexico city. jeff, back to you. >> brown: that's the perils of live television. so we'll move on while we try to get the signal back with margaret. since the supreme court handed down its landmark health care decision last week, legal scholars and commentators have honed in on the role of chief justice roberts who decided with the court's liberals to allow the individual mandate to stand. and on the decision's wider impact on future attempts to assert or restrain federal powers in this and other areas. we explore all this with laurence tribe, professor of constitutional law at harvard law school, where he once had john roberts, as well as president obama, as students. and david rivkin, a partner at the baker-hostetler law firm in washington. he represented the 26 states that challenged the constitutionality of the affordable care act. professor tribe, i think let's start with your former student. there's been continuing speculation as to whether he changed his vote. it was reported by jan crawford

mexico throughout the country especially where my local is over there were supporters strongest in mexico city there was a spontaneous protest great to the federal city to let's world. offices right now when the nonsense were being made about a recount being done and then there was a massive protest on saturday that was really done actually throughout the country not the public process of the country but was stopped showing its strongest and biggest you know i guess example of the opposition right now in the nation's capital is new plaza what happened actually after that was there was a spontaneous purchase that erupted right outside of a wedding of a major televisa personality whose name was any of their beds and actually ironically their bed was a supporter of the movement but nonetheless the protesters target the wedding as a kind of a symbol of televisa which is really the second target of all the opposition in the protesters it's not just because a thing and yet though they're opposing but it's also the alliance that was revealed actually by investigative reports in the guardian between t

. >>> oakland police hosting unusual ride along today, they will take two federal from mexico city fora ride and show how the department fights crime and technology it uses, including the shot spotter, gunshot technology system or detection system they toured oakland police headquarters yesterday. --. >>> 6:06 i am for a look at forecast. -- time for a look at forecast. >>> let's check in with mike are we going to warm up? >> a little this afternoon. the real warring trend starts friday saturday, sunday into next week. we'll balance out this weather from the coast you have to wait until the weekend. good morning live doppler showing how dry it is outcome paired to yesterday, still really small isolated areas of drizzle along the coast and around san francisco in our higher elevations other than that easy go this morning. as far as what is going to happen over the next 24 hours or so, you can see we have that area of low pressure up to our north, still spinning on the border there on the tip with oregon and our lovely state, it hasn't moved much in the last 10 hours it will start to pus

accusing of censoring the protests a member of that group joins me now miguel dataset ohs is in mexico city mexico right now with more welcome to the show me go so tell us more about these protests you have planned. i'm sorry i heard it here we go there i'll just tell us more about these protests that you have planned ok. well this isn't are going to station as a movement we are going to go out on sunday. at eleven am we are going to go to the. to the president how i'm from there we're going to start in march we are going to go through the big of a new report tomorrow and then we're going to go to the downtown they're going to vote. ok and what is it exactly miguel that you and your fellow protesters are demanding well we're demanding democracy to be on it to be real to be. according to what the people want. once in power once we are trying to. start making people awake. you know who can make them conscience what is happening all these money if you lay shown all of these. you know it's it's kind of. it's an alliance against it's the government to be and for prices to be power a comical powe

the prd has done well in the 27 districts in mexico city. here you see the pri does not do very well, but it is a strong showing. this is the state of mexico, the pri comes roaring back. they are a national party, the pan is a national action party, and the prd is not a national party. it is no surprise that the pri, with a good candidate would be able to come back to power. okay. here are the electoral results for state and municipal elections. what you see your company started in 1980. they used to win -- in terms of percentage of votes, almost 90% in a hegemonic party. this is not a dominant party in india or japan. then it drops, it really drops dramatically the support at that municipal and governor level, it does not drop. this is why the pri is extremely popular at this level. you'd think in the 1980s they would still be a popular party. this is how many percentage of the voting population that identifies with the party that is over 30% or then it goes down, it's still 30%. look at the pan, this is going to be that tragedy for them. l

after the veracruz newspaper was firebombed, half the staff quit in nuevo laredo one of mexico's deadliest cities, the leading paper stopped reporting on cartels altogether after its office was attacked. the cartels may be killing the messengers, but the entire country knows violence is out of control. protesters across mexico are demanding someone put an end to it. it is the number one concern of voters in tomorrow's presidential election. montes said he doesn't think any new president can stop the carnage, he sees more deaths, more blood, for guns storks why does he keep reporting on the cartels? for his colleagues who have given their lives, he said. he does it for mexico. the people of mexico are frustrated and fed up with all fr of this violence, and lee, omorrow's vote will be as much about stability as any one citidate or party. >> cowen: bill whitaker reporting tonight from mexico city, thanks, bill. later, if you think your state legislators are the ones writing your state's laws, think again. ask a group called alec, tourists in space, tickets are available but at an astronomical price,

we have now been operating in mexico city at the airport and i think it is scheduled for cabo san lucas, is to have global entry kiosks in the airport. for the first time, mexican citizens can join a global injury and be vetted by the federal police database. mexico is creating its trusted traveler program, and americans will be able to join that program, so that when you get into mexico city will not have to wait on line, go through the kiosks and basically establish a link between your biometrics in your passport, and you answer some questions on a customs and immigration and you pass through. the pre clearance and the way in which it takes place in canada is not yet ripe in mexico, and probably if we can get the scale, as kris wilson and derrek lee suggested, we can get the scale of these programs. it will not be required to have cpp officers there, simply providing the ability to be a trusted traveler and be cleared from a mexican airport. >> we will get you a microphone. >> will last 20 years, a lot of folks have been talking about securing the border since the early 1990's. as you

mexico. we come back, killed at home. the white plains police and the cityf are being sued for $21 million over the death of a former marine who was killed in his home by white plains police. stay with us. [♪] >> la sandunga by lila downs. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we returned to the police killing of kenneth chamberlain, the 68-year old african-american marine veteran who was shot in his own home by a white plains new york police officer this past november. the police were called to his apartment after he accidentally set off his lifeaid medical alert pendant. his family is headed to federal court in manhattan today to file the $21 million civil rights lawsuit against the city of white plains. the housing authority and eight police officers involved in the incident. death suit comes two months after a westchester -- westchester jury decided not to church anthony carelli in the shooting. when police arrived at chamberlain's apartment, he told officers he was ok, but refused to let them inside his apa

. >>> tens of thousands of protesters in mexico city they're angry over the new president's wind in the presidential election they accuse him of buying votes and paying off tv networks. he won the election by more than 3 million votes but his challenger her urged mexico's electoral institute is to investigate irregularities. he is to take power in december. the first for sitting in that state's congressmen the history making move barney frank did today that that political heavyweights looking on. summertime means boding and you better applied by the rules, the main reason the coast guard is watching closely. >>> after a beautiful day in the bay area with sun numbers warm up we your grilling is still gonna be pretty amateur. but your deck? that's pro. finish like a pro with cabot wood stains. cabot...that's pro. now docked in los angeles she opened as a floating museum among the hundreds of visitors several sailors who once served on her docks. >>> i really could not shut up on not that excitable this is great >>> and the battleship of presidents retired in the '90s and refurbished in ri

abc's cecilia reports from mexico city. >> more than 50,000 people have been killed in mexico's drugs. >> the three biggest issues of this campaign are what? >> it's violence, violence and violence. >> on the campaign trail the three lead are candidates propose changing how the war is fought. the frontrunner, young, dashing and married to a soap opera star, wants to focus lesson catching cartel leaders and block the drugs flowing into the runs and instead to consent straight on cushing violence on the streets here. to see how bad that violence is, look no further than this booming mexico city business where every day cars are turned into armored safe havens. >> i would say in the last four years that the business has probably gone up probably 1,000 percent. it's huge. big time. >> especially along the u.s. border regular families with means, not just politicians, are spending thousands so they can drive the streets safely. >> just about everything in this midsize s.u.v. is bullet resistant from the windows to the doors. it can withstand 15 to 20 rounds of bullets fired from a handgun