Caused this surge. I dont know. We should be asking that question. But where are the mexican officials on pursuing their southern border strategy, and how do you see that as a tactic to basically dispel this crisis . Thank you, senator. Mexican president nieto announced finally on monday this longawait the southern strategy his government had been working on for some time. We expect that it will allow the Mexican Government to improve its interdiction capabilities along the border, that theyre going to be dedicating more resources to disrupting some of the alien Smuggling Networks and the traditional routes they use up through grauatemala, through southern mexico. In addition, theyre trying to also implement better documentation of people who are crossing their border so that they can track them better in the country. Theres no question, it is a very big border with guatemala and belize. It is open in a lot of places. So they have quite a job in front of them. I would suggest that ther
[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] visit year, cspan is touring cities exploring history. Visit to our recent jackson, mississippi. You are watching American History tv, every weekend, all weekend. Us, who fought for this country, fought for mississippi and alabama, we fought for north carolina, we fought for illinois, for every state in this union. And we are going to stay see that it becomes a reality. [applause] 15 minutes past midnight, evers got out of his car. A sniper fired a single shot from a highpowered rifle. The bullet hit him in the back and passed through his body. He died within one hour at a jackson hospital. I am in the home of medgar evers. Raised in aand little town called decatur, mississippi. He talked about, when you read about him and listening to him talk, he talked about differences of how the racists. He could never understand a wide. He talked about having white playmates. He could
What role should gregg play when it comes to oversight of College Athletics. Phone lines are open. Republicans call 2025853881. Democrats 2025853880. Independent 20258538882. Catch up with us on all of your favorite social media pages, on twitter, facebook or email us at journal cspan. Org. A very good saturday morning to you. A few headlines from that Senate Commerce Committee Hearing this past week. Here is the New York Times story on the Senate Presses ncaa signalling interest in the direction of College Sports. National journal has the headline, Congress Taking on escalating ncaa crisis. A Senate Committee grild the College Sports president over mistreatment of student athletes. We will show you bits of that hearing throughout the first 45 minutes of the washington journal. We will start from the Senate Commerce Committee Hearing, talking about why the committee is getting involved in this issue. There is a growing perception that college agethletics, particularly division 1 footba
And a number of others that are truly looking at criminal justice and prison reform. I hope others jump onboard and do what has to be done to get the laws changed. At 9 00 a. M. This morning, cspan will be covering a hearing by the house judiciary over Criminalization Task force. Its about the need for criminal code reform and the over federalization in federal criminal law. 9 00 a. M. Cspan3. Next up is mark from ft. Lauderdale, florida. Caller how you doing . Good. Caller thank you to cspan and mr. Kerik for bringing this subject to the front. I called in on the inmates line or exinmates line because i did some federal time myself. You had a little while ago you stole my thunder when they mentioned how things look very different when the shoe is on the other foot. The fact is mr. Kerik as he was coming up through the police force and climbing the ladder, and even when you reached the top of the food chain, all we thought was prisoners and criminals deserved more time, they were getti
Battle of fort stevens, where general early probed the defenses of the heavily fortified city before deciding to turn back. After will list wilderness, you had petersburg surrounded. His idea, his plan was to choke robert e lee and force them to come out and fight what he thought would be the battle that would end the war. We knew this as well. Lee came up with a plan of his own witches he took an entire and he took them outside the defenses of washington on a bold plan, a fourpart plan that he hoped would mess up general grants grand plan to end the war. The first plan with the kick the forces out of the shenandoah valley. Lees biggest problem was supplied, including food and most of the food came from the shenandoah valley. These forces under general hunter had taken over just about the entire shenandoah valley. The second part of the plan was to threaten washington, d. C. The third part of the plan was the free confederate prisoners at the lookout prison camp was which was on the ve