uka had link to islamic fundamental list group in germany but so far no information linking him to the terror alerts. bret: more on this with the panel. thank you. mexico s president remains vehemently opposed to u.s. agents carrying weapons in his country. despite murder of american customs agent three weeks ago. felipe calderon met with president obama at the white house today. white house correspondent wendell goler has that story. reporter: for years, mexico leaders complained that u.s. guns and money enable the drug war south of the border. but less than three weeks after one of those guns claimed one of our own, immigration custom enforcement agent zappatta, president obama conceded the problem is a shared one. the battle that president felipe calderon is fighting inside of mexico is not just his battle. it is also ours. we have to take responsibility as he is taking responsibility. reporter: more than 15,000 deaths were blamed on mexico s drug war last year, twice as m
president obama meeting with mexican leader hoping to smooth over relations between the two countries which are at an all-time low. topic number 1 is likely to be the rise of drug violence on the border that claimed the life of a u.s. customs agent three weeks ago. the two presidents will hold a news conference at 1:00 p.m. eastern on right here on msnbc. bradley manning can now face the death penalty. the army yesterday filed new charges against hip. the most serious, aiding the enemy, as a capital offense. recommending life in prison but it will be up to a military judge to decide his fate.
dead in mexico just over this past weekend, as the drug war continues. and two of the most recent victims, one fatally was the i.c.e. agent, the immigrations and customs agent, what do we no in recent days since the arrests? this is jime zapata in mexico, we have been working closely with the justice department to find the assailants and bring them to justice. arrests have been made in mexico. and in addition, we have been conducting a number of operations around the united states dealing with the zedas, which is one of the drug cartels and some of of the other cartels as well. one of the guns reportedly came from texas that killed the agent? there are indictments, my understanding is that are
time in issuing a live statement. he said, you know, as i said to you last week when he started, that was a paper statement. this is the first we ve heard from him on this. we ll discuss that further. meantime, some headlines for you. we start with the fox news alert. moments ago wikileaks founder julian assange was told he can be sent to sweden to face those sex crime charges. that order coming from a judge in london. they re planning to fight that ruling and are afraid swedish officials will hand assange over to the u.s. where he s being investigated for leaking classified information. until now, assange has been free on bail on a mansion arrest but now he ll reportedly be held in jail because there s no bail system in sweden until there s a trial or until he s released. the american customs agent gunned down in mexico, a case of mistaken identity by gang members. according to the mexican defense department, the s.u.v. that he was in is the same kind used by a rival drug gang. six
megyn: well, the e-mail is on fire right now over that last interview with that state democratic senator from wisconsin. we re still taking your thoughts at kelly at foxnews.com. meantime we ve got new developments in washington, following the murder of an immigration and customs agent in mexico. federal lawmakers are now pushing to allow immigration agents to carry guns when they are working south of the border. many people thought they already had that right. they don t! the current rules say that ice agents have to ride unarmed while working inside mexico. fighting a drug war! gregg jarrett live in our newsroom. gregg, there were good reasons for this when it was implemented and now you ve got to scratch your head and ask how can we have them down there like that. that was 25 years ago or something like that. look, these guys were given a badge but not a gun so