one thing that grant spent some time talking about leaving his wife with his role in the us-mexico border of 1986 -- 1846. >> i found is a very moving quote. the fact of the matter is that grant was not alone in thinking that the u.s. invasion of mexico was somehow with it. one thing that i talk about in this book and i will talk about tonight is the evolution of the american public during the course of the u.s. and mexico war, from being really enthusiastic to largely turning against the war. i think the u.s. and mexico war of the moment of america's first antiwar movement actually coming into being. so there was antiwar sentiment during the revolution, and certainly during the war of 1812. that sentiment was limited. what you see happening in 1847 is a consensus, really, across the board. people from different regions of the country, soldiers in the field, officers, politicians, all of this fighting of the war that was being successfully waged in another country. so i think this is a very interesting moment in american history. and it takes place that people don't really know much about

increase security she modified her legislation after a previous law that boosted security on the us mexico border to deal with drug cartel violence so is this what is coming to strapping bulletproof backpacks on to students and stationing troops around schools for some answers i'm joined now by r.t. correspondent ramon the lindo he's in our l.a. studio haidara mona what's going on here i mean what exactly is senator boxer promoting. well her save our schools act would allow governors of each state in the nation to deploy national guard troops to schools to help law enforcement in what she calls to ensure the safety of the schools now in proposing this she hasn't ruled out actually having national guards troops there in in front of the schools guarding the entrances however she has suggested that these national guard troops might be used to help police and paperwork and to build a safety infrastructure around school campuses in this would have to be paid for by the states and eventually under boxer proposal the federal government will reimburse the states through through spending which has

mexico. "i think there are some concerns that us labor has with what goes on in mexico and a lot of us firms ve benefitted by exporting to mexico." pena nieto won just 38% of the vote in a three-way race. his party, the pri, reclaims the presidency after 12 years out of power. but it's new president says it is not the same pri marked my corruption and coercion that controlled mexico uninterrupted for 70 years. pena nieto also wants to open mexico's national oil company pemex to international partnerships--to exploit deep water reserves in the gulf of mexico and shale oil deposits along mexico's northern border. that's an area believed to hold the world's fifth-largest reserves. it's prime time for holiday shopping and yet-- ups and, ebay and amazon are still looking for hires. ups still has 200 openings and is paying employees a $150 dollar bonus to recommend new hires. at ebay subsidiary gsi commerce in lousiville, kentucy-- 300 more people are needed and and amazon is stil shopping for gift wrappers, shippers and receivers at it's plant in jeffersonville, indiana. eurozone unemployment brea

us all. now through january 2nd. >> greta: could mexico be the next benghazi? ngressman michael mccaul is warning us because u.s. agents are helping mexican police go after the most violent drug cartels and yet our agents are not allowed to carry weapons in mexico. congressman joins us. why not? >> well, you know, officially they can't under a treaty that was signed by the united states and mexico. unofficially they do what they have to do to protect themselves, but there's no clarity in the policy, and i think it needs to be clear so our agents can protect themselves. we had three cons lar officers killed in jawrs. we had ice agents, one killed and one wounded in an ambush in a u.s. embassy vehicle. this year cia agents were ambushed by 14 mexican federal police officers. 150 rounds fired at them, and the two agents were wounded in the process. now they'v they've been indicted charged with murder. they used plain clothes and private cars even though they were on duty that day. >> greta: we took on the record down to mexico and we traveled around with some atf a

is essentially a kind of nafta the north africa that there was the free trade agreement between us and mexico ok ok let me just ask you this back to the constitution in the main argument against against the keystone is that it favors that is an instant betrays the revolution and meanwhile the reason is themselves that a document would ensure democracy which of those arguments holds more weight. i don't think it will bring about democracy and remember that the moses mandate is actually quite weak in the first round of but he got less than a quarter of the votes in the presidential election i'm talking about here in the second round he just straight over fifty percent and that was when he was up against canada and widely regarded as representing the former regime. so his mandate is we keep trying to do is attempting to shore up his legitimacy with this constitution so he can claim a mandate it's interesting that they have the vote in the going on now the second round of constitutional referendum voting in the rural areas and that's in your court you said though the muslim brotherhood are quite

billboard he goes concert i feel like this are actually illegal in parts of mexico but that drug war lyrics are a big hit for us the u.s. . and say the true. the fake stuff and people seem to like him go oh. mexico's censorship of the music has only increased its popularity in the us which is in the middle of the prescription drug addiction epidemic that a lot of addicts really become desperate and out of work out to go to have much of the heroin consumed in the u.s. it smokes didn't do mexico anti drug activists aleksei to use clabber eyes in the narco cultura will only hurt younger generation it's more glamorous to be a dope dealer and a criminal and a murderer because lawyers and doctors they're not cool the imagery in this drug music is not new to us audiences of which have historically brought into the picture here i thought oh these songs make it seem exciting young guys think of that world thank you we. are. even a hollywood has tried to cash in on the narco culture. and as this music because more mainstream and the drug war continues to rage. it's likely the rock of music sound recent and. the speakers

numerous there will fight each other and together they fight the government mexico is one example of that they have a huge number of us s. nations some fifty thousand of assess nations judges prosecutors police offices but mexico is indeed a transit country right mexico easy transit country because there is a huge amount of drugs especially cocaine and marijuana going through mexico to the us. the u.s. government introduced a special program called the merida initiative and it was extremely successful they were able to reduce the cocaine market in the u.s. by half i mean it is that so once the mexican cartels lost half of their income they began fighting each other a war broke out between courcelles and the overall situation in mexico deteriorate to look at that it under the same time he said he started trafficking cocaine through northern and western africa to the european union was another cocaine markets in europe has doubled the school so he was a number of the same is happening with heroin. and world bank experts say that's while the european drug market is about two hundred billion u.s. dollars related economic

mexico using boxes specially made to fit through their teller's windows to speed the transactions. >> reporter: it wasn't just the drug cartels that benefited from what prosecutors called the bank's willful failure to report suspicious activity. h.s.b.c. instructed an iranian bank how to conceal $183 million in transactions. h.s.b.c. also admitted to cutting the number of internal watchdogs to save money. assistant attorney general lanny breuer. >> h.s.b.c. is paying a heavy price for its conduct. and under the terms of today's agreement, if the bank fails to comply with this agreement in any way, any way at all, we, of course, in the government, reserve the right to prosecute the bank. >> reporter: under the terms of today's settlement, nobody at h.s.b.c. will face criminal charges. notre dame professor jimmy gurule investigated money laundering cases for the treasury department. >> we're not talking about mere negligence, we're talking about a criminal scheme that was adopted as a policy of h.s.b.c. to look the other way with regard to suspicious transactions involving money launder

the family is happy to have him home. >> this is a wonderful day for all of us. >> mexico released himhen they determined he didn't intend to commit a crime. he is now with his father driving to florida. it's a long drive but they say they should be home in time for christmas. >> the cia is now speaking out about a movie that shows the raid that killed bin laden. the acting director of the cia sent out a statement saying that the movie is not accurate. the cia, the pentagon and senators have all been critical of scene that show hard interrogation techniques. they say information gained by torture didn't lead to the capture and killing of bin laden. >> lucas film no longer owned by george luca. the deal with disney is wrapped up. they paid $4 billion in cash and stock for the production company. sky walker sound, industrial light and magic and lucasarts. the buy out was announced back in october and a new movie is already in the works. >> there is an underground bakery in oakland that only sells to the public a couple days a week and they usually have lines out the door and are especial

joining us from mexico city, i guess somewhat ironically, in a way, because 30 years ago if it were mexicanactories taking u.s. work, then that moved largely to china. now some of that is coming back here. how come? >> it's coming back specifically because a company like ge has done the math and they figured out two things. first, the world has changed in the last -- certainly in the last 20 years, and even in the last ten years. transportation costs are higher. labor costs are higher overseas. and markets in this country move much more quickly. even for something like appliances. ge wants to be able to make dishwashers, refrigerators, washers and dryers, put them out on the market quickly. difference in transportation time, it takes five weeks just to get finished products to the u.s. from china. from the factory that they're reviving in kentucky, it takes ge 19 minutes to get the products in to the warehouse and ready to distribute and product cycles even in appliances have been cut in half. people want their appliances up to date and they want to be able to put them on the market quickly

right now it's not particularly safe for us to do live reporting in mexico. but a couple hours we were there during daylight. it's a heavily fortified building. there's an armed guard outside. there are large walls and gates. i talked to the boss there, the consul general. and the consul general told me when i asked him questions about what the parents were saying, that he was unable to get clearance from washington to talk to us. so, we needed to talk to the state department from washington to find out what the consulate was doing. this is what the state department told us, they gave us this statement. the consulate is following mr. hammar's case closely as it proceeds through the mexican judicial system. we are in constant contact with mr. hammar's lawyers and family and we'll continue to monitor his safety and well-being throughout his detention. members of the consulate have seen him, anderson, in prison, three times. but the fact is, four months, johnny hammar is still there. he wasn't all over the country with the gun. he presented the gun at the border

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grenade launchers you see here are some of the heaviest weapons the cartel uses and they even have their own monster trucks mexico has seized more than one hundred of them so where do the cartels get their weapons well some are from central america but most of them come from the united states in fact the bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms found that sixty eight thousand of ninety nine thousand guns found in mexico actually actually a originated in the united states for more on where and how drug gangs are arming themselves i'm joined by adrian pyne assistant professor at american university adrian great to have you here so i first want to talk about where these guns are coming from as we just mentioned many of them come from the the u.s. could you elaborate a bit more on how these cartels are getting armed well that's right lou seventy percent of the guns and weapons that have been captured by mexican police have been found to come from the united states and a lot of those are coming through originally coming through legitimate quote unquote a legitimate forms of trade that is people can walk into gun shows i

cuisines in america are italian and mexican, both of which use, you know, significant amounts of dairy. >> hinojosa: well, actually, in mexico, they don't really use that much iry. >> oh, interesting. >> hinojosa: that's americanized mexican food. >> yeah. >> hinojosa: actually, it's kind of low dairy in mexico. it's the same thing, you know? the mexican food in mexico is actually... >> totally diff... that also was very shock... like, you know, burritos, like, not mexican. like, what is that all about? i know. >> hinojosa: no, no. now they have burritos in mexico, because they want to... it's a strange thing that happens. >> spaghetti and meatballs, also not italian. it's this... it's interesting, right? because it's part of this phenomenon that i call indigenous chinese... oh, sorry, indigenous foreign cuisine, that we think of them as foreign or exotic or ethnic, but in fact they were developed in america. so the burritos, italian spaghetti and meatballs. so what happens is this book tries to make you think twice of, like, what it means to be american, right? that in fact you think of it... you may think of it as somethin

mexico. so at the time when as a youngster, only he had not wrote urging us to resign and grant during the time that the u.s.-mexico war was a young lieutenant. i found this a really moving quotes so he took it from a typo. the fact is grant was not allowed in thinking the u.s. invasion of mexico was somehow wicked. one thing i talk about in this book and tonight is the evolution of the american public during the course of u.s.-mexico war, which is not about word by any means from being really the csh to largely turning against the war. i see the u.s.-mexico war as a moment of america's first antiwar movement coming into being. so there's antiwar sentiment during the revolution and certainly during the war of 1812. that sentiment was limited. but gc happened in 1847 is a consensus across the board. people across the country can soldiers in the field, officers, politicians, all decided that a war was the successful invasion of their country was wrong in protesting the war. so this is an interesting moment in american history and it takes place and they were people don't know much about. the u.s.

it is not safe for us to be live reporting in mexico. it is a heavily ford fied building.guard outside and i talked to the boss there. and the council general told me when he said they were unable to get the clearance to find out what the consulate was doing. they said, the consulate is following mr. hammer's case closely. we are in constant contact with the lawyers and family. and we will continue to monitor his well being. they have seen him in prison. and johnny hammer is still there and he presented the gun at the border and now he is in jail for four months. we'll continue following. his parents have been afraid to go public with their son's story. you can imagine how awful these last months have been for them. >> live theoh live thea i can't imagine how this has been for you. how are you holding up? >> taking it one day at a time and praying that this exposure helps get him home. >> you went down to visit his son. what are the conditioning like where he is held? >> they are horrible. third world facilities, and it is not a secure facility either. and you know the roa

right now it's not particularly safe for us to do live reporting in mexico but a couple hours we were. it's a heavily fortified building. there are large walls and gates. i talked to the boss there, the consulate general and the general told me when i asked him questions about what the parents were saying, that he was unable to get clearance from washington to talk to us. so we needed to talk to the state department from washington to find out what the consulate was doing. they gave us this statement. the consulate is following mr. hammar's case closely as it proceeds through the mexican judicial system and we are in constant contact with the family and we will continue to monitor his safety throughout the detention. they have seen him, anderson, in prison three times but after four month jonny hammar wasn't there. he presented the gun at the border checkpoint right behind me and now he's in jail for four months. >> gary tuchman, thank you. his parents have are been afraid to go public with their son's story. they are speaking out with you are you are general see. i spoke to olivia an

he is with us live from mexico city. good morning, eddie. >> good morning, aisyn.to talk to you. alisyn: let me make sure we have the story correct. john has been held since august. he was traveling through mexico on a road trip with a buddy. they were going to costa rica to go surfing. why did john have this antique gun with him? >> i'll tell you the way i understand they were going to go hunting in costa rica and nicaragua. they had a single shotgun in winnebago kind of a camper. they had to go through mexico to get there. that is where they were going to use it, which is sporting gun used in the united states of america. alisyn: he did all the right things. he declared the gun. he filled out all the paperwork. he alerted officials that he had the gun and yet they still arrested him. now we understand that the prison where he is being held is notorious for housing very dangerous criminals, members of the lo is the zetas drug cartel. we have been reports he is chained to his bed in the cell, the prison officials feared he might try to escape. the state department

mexico using boxes especially made to fit through their tellers' windows to speed the transactions. indeed it was reported to one h.s.b.c. official that h.s.b.c. mexico had received the ringing endorsement of money launderers as he place to launder money. >> woodruff: devlin barrett is covering this story for the "wall street journal," and has more details for us now. so, thank you for joining us. how much money was involved and what are some other examples of what was going on beside this box that fit through the tellers' window. >> the $800 million you mentioned is what they know was essentially laundered drug proceeds but there's also actually vast pools of billion of dollars of money where the bank wasn't paying attention and wasn't checking the basic principle of know your customer. personally one of my favorite litt tidbits in this whole case is there was a sequence of transactions in a bank in japan in which they brought sequentially numbered travelers checks into this one little bank in japan totaling $290 million. no one seemed to have any idea where it was coming from. it a

mexico. >> billy bush joins us now. what happened over the weekend? ible tragedy. >> yeah, 3:30 in the morning after performing -- and known to perform long, long, four, five-hour concerts, she left monterrey, mexico, the northeast corner, not very far from texas. she hopped aboard a learjet 25, by the way, a very old one, 1969. it had been in the air as long as she had been alive, 43 years. she drives down towards taluca international. ten minutes in the plane goes off the radar and crashes. a terrible loss for all mexican music fans and latino music fans all over the world. we hadn't quite known her here on american television until -- she was the judge on "the volley" in mexico. she had a reality show on mundos called "i love jenni." she had just tragedy after tragedy in her life. they're marriages just in the process of her third divorce. she's got five children. you know, her oldest child from the first marriage, molested by that husband. just terrible, and her second husband went to jail for drug smuggling. he died in jail. she's had nothing but

joining us is former new mexico governor bill richardson and andrew mccarthy. rnor, he said that we have -- you know, a red line is here for us if we start seeing chem weapons being moved around. chemical weapons are being moved around. now he actually shifted his statement today, if they used them. what does that show but weakness for america if he doesn't mean what he says? >> well, i don't believe the president has changed his position. i'm not privy to all the discussions, but it's been very clear that the latest words are they're going to be some serious consequences. what you don't want to do, sean, at this stage is you don't want to give the other side what you're going to do, so there's ambiguity that is used in did i diplomacy. what we don't want is hezbollah, for instance, to get ahold of some of these chemical weapons and they're near sop of these weapon sites. there's a political element here that might be changing, and that is russia's position. if russia unloads their support of assad, i think assad is almost gone, and you are seeing that happening

mexico. it should be used. it should be enforced right now. >> sean: there are two points here. he did everything right, eric. he was in a winnebago. he went to u.s. customs. he volunteered, told them he had the weapon with him. it's his grandfather's shotgun. they said, fine, go across the border, declare it. you will be fine. that's the rules. >> apparently, the only one who can bring guns across the border is eric holder with fast & furious. bottom line, i will tell that you barack obama could get on the stage and say, get in front of the podium, put the seal there and say, listen, mexico, time to release our man. get him back right now. you remember when one of -- rush limbaugh made a comment about sandra fluke -- the next day, president obama is defending sandra fluke. where is he when a mac is chained to a bed in mexico? if he doesn't want to do that, he can say, look, number 1 most... the the country we buy most of our crude from, canada and mexico. maybe we have to rethink who we are buying our oil from. >> sean: all it would take, kim beverly, go to the podium and say,

own government for his release because they are worried about american tourists and making mexico attractive to uslot of americans are unhappy the way our marine is being treated by our so-called friend mexico. joining us, the parents of john hammer. a lot of americans are outraged by what's happening to your son. it seems somewhat clear he may have violated some mexican law about bringing the gun in. it may have been too short or too long by an inch. why didn't they just say when he stopped and showed them the gun. say can't take it, doesn't comply with our laws, turn around and go back home. >> i don't know for a fact. i can only speculate they were hoping that he would offer them a bribe. that was our -- that's what a lot of people have told us. if he had offered them a bribe he might have been able to avoid this. megyn: that comports with your experience. i know you got a call from this mexican prison and tell us what they demanded. >> they demanded money. for his safety and they said they were going to kill him if we didn't send it immediately. you know, at the border crossing it could have b

mexico. that's an ally of ours. we give them hundreds of millions of dollars a year, bill. why isn't it just a phone call. >> bill: let's be honest they disrespect us time mexico. number one, hillary clinton should be involved in this herself. we haven't seen any sign of that number two, president obama should be involved we haven't seen any sign of that number three, the new mexican president, there is no way that this guy shouldn't let this marine out tomorrow. christmas is coming up. we called the mexican embassy today. those people are totally chaotic. >> they are very busy. >> they don't know what the hell is going on. they don't care. so i think now we are going to have to squeeze. we will have to put pressure. >> here is the irony. let the viewers know. so we have this 1.9 billion-dollar assistance program that we help mexico with to fight their war on drugs, among other things. we have been sending down money for blackhawk helicopters and so on. recently our effort has shifted to more of a law and order assistance program. and we have had the former director of colorado's penitentiary system has trained more than 5,000 mexican prison offici

accounts in mexico and the us were being used by drug barons to hide the proceeds of crime. back in the sports yeah u.b.s. which was fined for libel or fixing u.b.s. was fined one half billion dollars barclays around half a billion altering the london interbank offered rate can make banks look a risk less risky to investors than they actually are and it can affect the rates customers are offered on mortgages and other loans while handing out the fines the us justice department did not mince words the banks conduct was simply astonishing hundreds of trillions of dollars in mortgages student loans credit card debt financial derivatives and other financial products worldwide are tie to libel or which serves as the premier benchmark for short term interest rates in short the global marketplace depends upon all of us relying on an accurate lie bore u.b.s. like barclays before it sort repeatedly to fix live or for its own ends. rounding out the list is the u.k. based bank standard chartered which was fined three hundred million dollars for violation of u.s. trading sanctions ameri

hour at least two people have been injured as clashes broke out at the inauguration of mexico's president please use to tear gas to disperse the protesters trying to break through security barriers by throwing molotov cocktails the demonstrators claim president bought votes to secure his own election. north korea says it will try to launch a long range rocket later this month the move is set to sour relations with south korea and the united states a failed launch in april resulted in washington suspending food aid to the totalitarian state tension on the peninsula is also rising over south korea's recent deal with of the u.s. which will dramatically increase of souls ballistic missile range. at least two people have been killed and three badly injured when a double decker bus hit a bridge at miami international airport police are questioning the driver who is not believed to be familiar with the airport's road system the vehicle carrying thirty two mostly elderly passengers was too tall for the entrance to the arrivals area. so a convoy lee has long been of the world's leading hub for high tech busi

mexico. and they were sent to a u.s. gun tracing program from the u.s. . they. excuse me the gun tracing program from the us shows that seventy percent are from here in the u.s. could you elaborate a bit more on how these cartels are getting armed so as you mentioned a lot of them are coming from central america smuggled that way through the south but a significant amount are coming from inside of the border and while a lot of this is illegal smuggling we shouldn't forget that actually through operations like fast and furious that a lot of these guns were deliberately channeled to cartels and the a.t.f. has you know as years has shown screwed this up a little bit a lot of these guns have appeared in murders the point of it was to track weapons to high. type players in the cartels but it obviously hasn't been successful you just mentioned fast and furious and right now there is a big debate here it's been a long running debate over gun control especially after certain tragedies could this be an example of how lax gun laws lead to the cartels being able to easily obtain them in the u.s. i think if we wanted t

for post traumatic stress disorder he and another former marine bought a used winnebago and planned surfing trip through mexico rica. hammer's family maintains he declared the antique rifle he planned to use the hunt birds to custom agents on both sides of the border. he was arrested after entering mexico a taken to the notorious prison filled with drug cartel where for a time he was chained to a bed. his parents began to receive phone calls that threaten john would be killed unless money was sent by western union. after initial efforts to bring him home failed his family mounted a public campaign. enlisting friends and elected officials. two congressmen planned call for national boycott of mexico tourism industry if hammer was not net free. john hammer senior went to the texas boarder to meet his son and the two will likely drove home together. he said he wasn't sure his son could handle a flight after four months inside a mexican prison. >> steve harrigan in miami. thanks. egypt official news agency says the president appointed 90 people to parliament upper house a day before the second round of a referendum

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garr garr tells us she -- theresa garcia tells us she was on her way to mexico to spend time with family and friends. >> it is so sad we have to go through that, but this is life. >> reporter: jenni rivera died when the learjet she was on crashed in northern mexico early sunday morning. the 43-year-old had just wrapped up a concert in monterey and was headed to the mexico city area. everywhere on board died, including her publicist, lawyer and make up artist. she sold 15 million records and in october won artist of the year at the billboard mexican music awards. >> she is the celina, the elvis presley. she will be in history for many, many years. >> reporter: media crews from the u.s. and latin america are here in lakewood lining the streets in front of her family's home. she was born in california and industry experts say the singer was on the verge of becoming a big name here in the states. >> she had just signed deal to do a comedy with abc, so, she was really poised for mainstream success. >> reporter: family friends say she never let fame go to her head. >> she gave everything and a

the vice president of a group that represents business in northern mexico joins us. how are you? >> very good. >> greta: why are you, not an american, but mexican, why are you willing to help this man out? >> we have similar reasons. the most important, because we think it's the right thing to do, that this incident has been going too far. also because we believe that it doesn't promote a good image about our country, doesn't help to promote the tourists growing charge he's been charged with, that he brought a gun into mexico, he announced he was bringing it in, but that the people arrested him said that the barrel was too short, and there's been argument over the measurement. in your opinion, is this a trumped-up charge, being hit harder than somebody else who might have a similar situation? >> that's difficult to tell, but this is i think it's gone too far, and in our opinion understander be returned immediately after he declared rightful to the customs, instead he was sent to jail, facing tough years in jail. it's not acceptable. >> greta: have you contacted -- how high up in

and betty is with us from albuquerque, new mexico. democrats line. good morning. caller: good morning and happy holidays. when we discussed the republican party these days, it seems people do not want to talk about the fact that they really are not a viable entity and probably have not been for the last 10 years. bruce bartlett, a gentleman who is a high-ranking republican, said it succinctly. the party has been reduced to stupid people and crazies. that is what john boehner has had a lot of problems. these people have taken over. the american public has come out of this 30-year coma. we realize why we are where we're at. we're in this terrible fiscal problem because of policies that originated under bush-cheney in the name of two wars, tinkering with the doughnut hole in medicare, and tax cuts that were given to the wealthy during times of war. unprecedented, never done before in the history of the united states. all of these things combined have gotten us into this fiscal problem. guest: i think you can clearly look, over the years from 2001, when we had a proje