mr. rodriguez. he worked at the dea. in 1997, selected as the director of a drug trafficking area program in seattle, washington. in 2010, the [indiscernible] you get used acronyms in this business. mr. ivory guess. mr. right rate -- mr. rodriguez. rodriguez: we coordinate and do joint operations with more than 115 international, federal, local, and state agencies are out the northwest. we help agencies identify threats and implement strategies to address them. the transnational criminal organizations operating both sides of the u.s.-canada border consider that continue -- continue to move drugs weapons and bulk cash. this includes caucasian groups ethnic east indians coming asia organized crime groups members of the hells angels motorcycle club. also, those headed by consolidated organization targets. the strong foothold of the pacific northwest. these include -- these are not limited by organizations. the location rendered susceptible to drug smuggling and production. 13 official ports of entry. a significant proportion

mr. rodriguez. next is richard harts indiana for -- hartunian. mr.rtunian sits on the attorney general battery committee where he is the cochair of the subcommittee in which he leaves the northern border group. prior to this he served as the assistant u.s. attorney in the northern district or can't achieve a organized crime drug enforcement task force coordinator. mr. hartunian. [inaudible] >> -- sorry. thank you. u.s. attorneys for the 16 federal judicial districts along the northern border know well the border security is a critical component of our national security and work with federal, state, local and tribal law-enforcement agencies and canadian counterparts to combat the trend national crime that threatens it. before distressed with the largest volume a significant border related activity or western washington, eastern michigan, western new york in my district. the northern district of new york shares a 310-mile border with canada and includes eight of new york's 11 ports of entry. each volume of people and goods pass through the northern dis

mr. rodriguez. >> thank you senator. again, when we talked about the resources i want to make sure we don't overlook our intelligence capabilities and the challenges that we face. to that aspect, the most critical support we provide us with intel analyst. i know we talked about aging but i don't want a laid-back component out as far as the need of a critical role in our investigation. certainly i want to point out a few gaps and that is interoperability on the border. this continues to be a problem especially the remote areas you are familiar with as well as radar coverage especially where we have these deep canyons we can't look down. so that is one of the gaps we still need to address. finally as far as lucky not specifically drug trafficking organizations, we measure our success with the dismount and disrupt and again a third of our numbers are multinational poly- drug organizations that are impact they not only the southern border, but also the northern border. we see more and more of our southern border coming up an

mr. rodriguez. >> thank you, senator. i wanted to make a couple of notes interest an operational perspective. again, when we talked about additional resources for the northern border i want to make sure we don't overlook our intelligence capabilities and the challenges that we face and to that aspect i think our most critical support that we provide our partners is with intel analyst support. so i know we talked about agents investigators, but i don't want to leave that component out as far as the need for int fence analysts. they play a critical role this our investigations. secondly i just want to point out a few gaps that my partners wanted to make sure i mentioned and that was radio inter operability along the border. it continues to be a problem especially in those remote areas that you're damn lar with as well as our radar coverage especially over the cascades where we have these deep canyons and we can't get radar to look down in there. so that also is one of the gaps we still need to address. and finally as far as

mr. rodriguez. last year- it was hyndenver sus north carolina. he was the plaintiff.was mr. vasquez. you are seeing police policing communities driving while hispanic. for all americans, ignorance of the law is no excuse for committing a crime. if if you didn't know something was a crime, too bad. last year they made an exception in the vasquez case for a police officer. they said when today stopped mr. vasquez and they stopped him because he was driving straight up with he is hands at the 10-2 position. >> like making eye contact for freddie gray. >> looking straight ahead. later the officer said he had a broken taillight. even with that having a broken taillight isn't a chargeable offense as long as you have one working it's okay. look at it in the context of what happened in south carolina. an officer stops someone for a broken taillightment he ran, ended up dead. we see the same patterns continuing in the sense the law exists in a bubble divorced from the reality on the ground of the type of interactions people have are in law enforcement. >> when you say it exist

mr. rodriguez, so i expect that there will be contacts in panama. and it's useful obviously to be able to have that contact and move things along so that we can get things done and open embassies and move ahead with this relationship. richard: good. i myself can imagine raul castro addressing the 700 assembled corporate executives around the western hemisphere and the same to them, please please not return and invest and trade with cuba, and that would be quite a moment in the inter-american relations. we'll see if that happens. laden with irony of course. also in cuba there is a lot of speculation that cuba is actually acting as a moderating influence on the countries in order to keep, the contentious issues of venezuela from dominating the agenda. rather than cuba wants to keep the spotlight on the u.s.-cuba approach it would appear, roberta, that the u.s. can get along better perhaps with marksist states in the hemisphere than populous states in hemisphere. can you tell us anything about what role cuba might be playing behind the scenes in latin

mr. gray was tased. that the police officers tased him. now, deputy commissioner rodriguez said there's no indication of any kinds of marks on autopsy. which i assume would include any markings from having been tased. >> i didn't hear anything about him being tased? >> i just heard that from the person on the street. >> and there lies the situation. >> okay. we're going to have to leave it there for tonight. mark claxton, jack young, mary cook thank you all for joining us tonight. >>> coming up, the tulsa county sheriff holds a press conference to try to answer questions about his friend who shot and killed eric harris. and an ohio police officer stands his ground and he refuses to shoot a suspect. the entire thing was caught on video. the suspect was asking him to shoot him. it looked like a case where the suspect wanted suicide by cop. >>> also tonight, it looks like we have a glimpse into who the koch brothers have chosen as their candidate for president of the united states. why are you deleting these photos? because my teeth are yellow. why don't you use a whitening to

. >> reporter: at that same press conference, deputy police commissioner jerry rodriguez said this: >> i know when mr. gray was placed inside that van, he was able to talk. he was upset and when mr. gray was taken out of that van he could not talk and he could not breathe. >> reporter: the implications was that the spinal injury occurred in the van but four days later deputy commissioner kevin davis turned the focus back to the scene of the arrest. >> and that's where the apprehension of freddie gray occurred. and, quite frankly that's exactly where freddie gray should have received medical attention. and he did not. >> reporter: another source of confusion involves an additional prisoner in the van. >> what the prisoner has told us is that the second prisone up, is that he didn't see any harm done to freddie at all. what he has said is that he heard freddie thrashing about. >> reporter: that other prisoner was dante allen who told cbs station wjz today that he heard more than just gray's movements. >> when we got to the station all i hear is them, like, "we got-- we gave him-- >> who said, that the

mr. gray? is there any evidence of kicking? punching strikes of any type upon his body? >> reporter: police say they don't know what caused the spinal cord injury that killed freddie gray. deputy police commissioner jerry rodriguez>> i know that when mr. gray was placed inside that van, he weighs able to talk he was upset. and when mr. gray was taken out of that van he could not talk and he could not breathe. >> reporter: in an attempt to provide transparency police released surveillance video from city cameras showing the moments before freddie grey's arrest. but it's this amateur cell phone video that continues to grip this city. police critics say it shows he was already severely injured before he was placed in the van. >> police are often in the most challenging cases that a forensic pathologist sees. and that's because so much going on all at the same time to try to dissect what really happened and what really caused the death. >> reporter: the mayor blake echoed the frustrations of the community dealing with a long history of distrust between the police and its people. >> i'm angry that we are here again. that we have had to tell another mother that their child is dead. >> reporter: baltimore officials pla

mr. chairman. as i told you, general rodriguez, i was going to concentrate my questions on africa. when senator mccain talked about being underresourced. it is true when you were formed in up to the current time you don't really have resources. you depend on ucom for almost everything, is that correct? >> we got a little bit more resources in the last year and a half to include special purpose. a commander's response forces, special operations force and we've also got a couple key enablers for forces. i also do depend quite a lot on ucom capacity, sir. >> yeah, i think you do. and i think other things that come up like the lra and things like that specifically. you inherit resources to help put out those fires. however, with the restructuring the european infrastructure consolidation, are you concerned about how that might affect what resources might be available when called upon? >> right now, from the european infrastructure consolidation, most of the moves have been to the south and east to help the responsiveness of ucom forces to support both sentcom and afacom. >> i don't kno

mr. obama's historic decision to normalize relations with cuba. ahead of their meeting tomorrow, secretary of state john kerry met with cuba's foreign minister bruno rodriguezday night the highest level of engagement since 1959. cuba is one of four countries on the state sponsors of terrorism list, landing there in 1982 after supporting terrorist groups in spain and colombia. the president's likely decision to remove cuba would allow it access to u.s. finance and arms sales and could accelerate the opening of embassies in havana and washington. >> as we move towards the process of normalization, we'll have our differences government to government with cuba on many issues, just as we differ at times with other nations within the americas, just as we differ with our closest allies. there's nothing wrong with that. >> reporter: but human rights issues still divide the u.s. and cuba. the administration denounced violence here wednesday when castro supporters attacked political dissidents outside the cuban embassy. senior officials told us the pace of political reform in cuba will remain painfully slow for some time adding, scott, that a meeting between presiden

rodriguez. he began his career in 1970. mr. roz reguess worked at the dea.in 1997, he was selected as the director for the northwest high area program in seattle washington. if 2013, the nw -- you get used to acronyms this this business, received national awards for the program op the u.s./canada border. >> chairman johnson, distinguished members of the committee, my name is dave rodriguez from seattle, washington. we coordinate and do joint operations with more than 115 international, federal local and state agencies throughout the northwest. we help these agencies to identify drug threats and elementary strategies to address them. the transnational criminal organizations operating on both sides of the u.s.-canada border continue to move proceeds from illegal drugs sold in the skpus canada as well as drugs weapons and bulk cash. these organizations include caucasian groups ethnic east indians, asian organized crimes groups and members of the hell's angels motorcycle club. particularly those by consolidated priority organization targets. we have gain add str

force or incident, but rodriguez was asked about news reports that an officer subdued gray with a knee on his neck. >> none of the officers describe any use of force. i know that when mr. gray was placed inside that van he was able to talk. he was upset. and when mr. gray was taken out of that van he could not talk and he could not breathe. >> reporter: baltimore police say the officers initially pursued gray because he ran from them and when they caught him they found he was carrying an illegal switchblade knife. scott, records show gray had a history of drug-related arrests. >> pelley: chip reid reporting from baltimore tonight. chip, thank you. an officer in ohio is being praised for restraint tonight in a life-or-death situation. last thursday in new richmond, officer jesse kitter held his fire as a s.charged at him. have a look at what his body camera showed. >> i'm not going to do it. >> shoot me! shoot me! shoot me! >> pelley: kidder backpedaled until back-up could arrive. the suspect wanted in connection with two murders was apprehended, no one hurt. tonight the f.b.i. is notifying hundreds of convicts nationwide that flawed analysis of hair samples at the f.b

mr. rodriguez. our next witness is richard. he's the u.s. attorney for the northern district of new york which covers 300 miles of the u.s. canada border. he sits on the u.s. attorney general's adviseory committee in which he leets the northern border working group. he served as the assistant district attorney. [ no audio ] >> sorry. thank you. the u.s. attorneys for the 16 federal judicial districts along the northern border know well that border security is a critical component of our national security and work with our canadian counterparts to combat the transnational crime that threatens it. the four districts with the largest border related criminal activity are western washington, eastern michigan, western new york and my district. the northern district of new york shares a 310-mile national border with canada and eight ports of entry. a huge volume of people and goods pass through the northern district from the major population centers of eastern canada by road, rail force field and water way. the tribe strat ls the border. smugglers