mike pena, master sergeant.nfantry in korea when his unit was attacked. he led the counterattack and regained position. they were outnumbered. the enemy wouldn't start coming. pena realized they were running out of ammo and ordered his unit to fall back. master sergeant pena didn't retreat with them. he stay behind, manned the machine gun to cover his men. he got them out safely. he held back enemy forces until early the next morning when his position was finally overrun. master sergeant mike pena was killed in action. these awards of valor come as the result of exhaustive research between the army, the navy, the air force and the marine corps nearly 900 records were deemed deserving of reassessment. took more than a decade to finally put this group of recipients together. every face you're seeing right now is set to receive the country's highest honor. what makes this honor and the work put into it as significant is what comes with each of these medals. at our country hasn't always honored those that defend us

the president of mexico, enrique peÑa nieto and prime minister steven harper. let's get remarks. mike i'm reminded of the fact that it's the nafta anniversary welcome in some quarters and not so in others. >> the arguments are playing out and those who opposed nafta back then are unconvinced that it was a good thing. there are plenty of sticking points to go around. this is a previously scheduled, they do it every year annual summit for the leaders of the united states, canada and mexico. they talk about sticking points there, the keystone pipeline, the canadian prime minister pushing hard for that. and the united states stalled in congress and the mexican president very interested in the fate that have legislation. tony, this was previously scheduled and so often happens with these international summits, the deterioration of the violence and tragedy that we've seen overnight in ukraine. we've just heard from the senior state department officials, they called it a glimmer of hope, but not too many eggs being put in that basket. vice president biden on the phone with president viktor y