local police are corrupt or missing. a lot of them have quit along with a lot of mayors because they re being intimidated along with the media. look, general. you were the drug czar for the united states. you know what kind of people we re talking about here that are involved in drug trafficking in mexico. would you or would you want your family to go to mexico and vacation there right now? well, you know, it s a loaded question. i have enormous admiration for mexico. i m a publicly proclaimed friend of mexico. it s people, it s culture. i think the danger is out of control now. and it s clearly spread to tourist areas. one can argue by numbers i mean you re probably still okay, fwu question is where will mexico be two years from now? called ron showed tremendous courage, put 45,000 troops out there to try to confront this issue, building a federal police
thing is going wrong. they still support president calderon, but they think he s losing this struggle to establish a rule of law and order. huh. we re talking about acapulco here, general. this is a resort town. just today the washington post has an article says 11 mayors in mexico have been killed the year. the question is are u.s. tourists safe in mexico? so far the numbers would indicate, yes, tourism is down dramatically in mexico. obviously they re concerned about their public image. so they re worried about foreign investment and tourism. they don t want this optic of mexico being rife with crime to prevail. their explanation is come on, this is only the border regions. it s not really throughout the country. when, in fact. it is. that washington post reporting and also the los angeles times has been extra ordinary.
banning the sale of violent video games to children, another first amendment question that s going to be taken up fwi court. there s also going to be a case out of arizona about where else hiring illegal immigrants and penalizing for hiring illegal immigrants. this is going to pit the state s rights, state s laws, versus federal prerogative. the ideological make-up of the court, if you will, is not really expected to change. of course, elena kagan is taking over for john paul stevens, known as one of the more liberal members of the court over the past decades. elena kagan is largely expected to follow suit, although, one never knows how people are going to judge once they get up on that bench. and second of all, elena kagan comes of as the top prosecutor and as such many of the cases that are coming before this court this fall she s already