Scenes and below the spotlight, our governments are working together very well on a number of things. Things. How do we improve our borders . How do we integrate our Economic Resources . Those kinds of things are going to adhere to the benefits of the citizens in both countries, i i dont think we have a handsoff relationship. I think it would be well if our congress or senate would couldnt firm Roberto Jacobs as our basset or as well as the Mexican Government appointed an ambassador to the United States. Its an important position in both countries and it needs to be there, they need to be on the ground, hands on. I think roberta would do a terrific job represented the United States and understanding the relationship very well. Those would be my comments. Thank you. Is peter still there . Yeah. What would be the positive scenario . And how what i envision it . I believe that many of the reforms on paper, are things that mexico needs. The problem, and im not one of those people who believes that opening up the Energy Sector was a bad idea come thats not it at all, i think many people are supportive of the reforms but are very fearful of the implementation and what comes in the secondary legislation after the constitutional reforms are approved. Thats where you see the reforms being undermined at the level of implementation and at the level of the secondary legislation. I could could give you many examples of this. In order to avoid the reformist impulse from dying out, what would the government have to do . Make sure that the reforms are not diluted by secondary legislation, and and make sure that the implementation is pristine, transparent, and accountable. That would require the Mexican Government to do something it is very bad at, which is regulating. That is the reason mexicans distrust the reforms, they distrust Energy Reform not necessarily because its open up the sector to private investors, but because we see what opening up sectors to private investors has done in the past with poor regulations. It has entailed a math massive transfer of wealth to private entities, as was the case with the banks. So a positive scenario would entail a Mexican Government actually regulated and implemented reform very well, why do i give it that such a low percentage in my prospects for that future . Because historically we have not done this well, at all. More conservative analysts has said you dont get good regulation on energy, its going to be the governments once again. So for Energy Reform to be succeed and has to be regulated, pristine, transparent and truly competitive. Not competitive. Not just a way of creating yet another way of rent seeking for the Newest Company which they have just created which is in the oil and gas. What what i like it to be . I would like it to be like australia, in terms of competition policy, acrosstheboard, dismantle monopolies. I think if there is a 3 growth in gdp, if i were president that would be my first move. Second issue, you have to push forward political reform that actually empower citizens and gives them effective mac and ms. Am sub representation because the ones they have today is absolutely terrible. I would would like mexico to be like canada, in terms of the representational nature of its democracy, or like chile in terms of its oral trial system and its rule of law system. Youre not going to get an mexican co when you have oral trials, i am grateful for the administration for transporting to oral trials but if you dont transform the police youre going to have trials with people have been unfairly arrested and tortured when the case begins. So i would like mexico to be more like the u. S. In terms of the decriminalization of marijuana, because we are fighting a war over substances that are increasingly being legalized in their main market, which is here. So a positive scenario would entail movement in those areas and the supervision and implementation of reforms in the spirit in which they were conceived, and in its foundational aspect was the right one. Which is we need to move this country. Question about newspaper shedding and journalism . Why are they doing that . Because they are being pressured by the government to do so. Because after the casablanca and the firing, the pressure from latinos increased, because there is a lot of cash flowing through the system given our system of Public Financing for parties and a lot of that cash is being used too by the media. Every money month there is money going to the newspapers. What you have seen a mexico sense it was taken off the air as the virtual silence of many issues that are not being covered in the Mainstream Press and are not covered on the radio. You see people, valiant people people who are reinforced to leave because they did the federal reporting on the police killings, and she was told to take her peace with her and leave. So she managed to put it on the air, not even on the air, with the support of univision and with the support of a magazine. So whats happening for two Investigative Journalism . Its been demoralized, destroyed, dismantled, in a context which the powers that at b want more reporters tracking down whether or not the casablanca of the first lady is going to be sold or not and she promised. Recently, u. S. Journalist with all the support of one all the major u. S. Outlets, interviews me for a casablanca and says i sent one of my investigative people to the public registry to see if indeed the house of the first lady promised to sell had been sold. Plus she was standing in line she got a call from the head of the office of communications of the presidency saying she didnt have the credentials to be doing Investigative Journalism in mexico because her cv had not been formally presented. So in this u. S. Journalist call to come play about harassment, she is is told all know it was just a coincidence and we called your reporter today. While she happened to be in mind getting getting the simper nation on the casablanca. This news journalist said to me, very uncomfortable coincidence and she is told by the office of communications of the pres. , you cant be out there doing Investigative Journalism on euro, everything that relates to the constable like that and the president goes through us. You go thrust first. So thats what youre saying, and echoes to the third question which is i would urge everyone in this room to read article 19s report 19s report on the state of journalism in mexico. What does that report reveal . The data is all there, all the cases are there, every 26 hours a journalist in mexico is threatened or killed. Why have you seen a spike . Because of the confluence of corruption, organized crime, drug trafficking, and the way in which these three interact. 48 of the aggressions against journalist are created by police. They say theyre dying because theyre covering organized traffic and crime but this reporter the threats were coming from the governor, they were coming from organized crime although one could say that yes they were. So its becoming increasingly difficult to be a journalist in mexico. Ambassador jones says there is competitive media, well really . When theres an 85 market share and if you only got your political information from open television in mexico, you would think that you were living in in a parallel country because you would never hear about important things, you would not even know that these things would have occurred. Where maybe they know the information through twitter or the rest of social medium or independent journalists were out there risking their lives and political cartoonists who are looking how they can leave the country. How do we empower communities . I absolutely agree, thats where the energy has to be focused, thats where i intend to focus my energies in the next ten years. Which is teaching citizenship, and ways of participation at the local level. The major transition that needs to occur, that would spike back, that would would be a catalyst for political participation at the local level would be of local governments and state governments were forced to collect taxes. Which which they do not do now. They have no incentive to be responsive to their citizens, when that changes, thats why im always asked, and peter went i think mexico will change . It change . It will be because of me, or others that are harsh in their criticism, it will will be when the country runs out of oil. Because thats what keeps the whole machinery going. I hope that happens soon, its a very political lee incorrect to say so but it would be the best thing that could possibly happen to mexico because it would force the government to collect taxes. Government that collect taxes and citizens that are forced to pay them, and i pay mind religiously because i always say im in buying the right to come play i am buying the right to be harsh and i have that right. Is this on cspan . Champus is a disgrace, Green Party Governor but please remember this is a green party that has been expelled on a coalition of green parties because it supports the death penalty, it supports the life of both the bulls and circus animals, it does not support the life of humans. This is a party that accrued 600 million pesos in fines for electoral mix contact. It is a party that three days ago it was revealed that the governors mother is receiving millions of pesos of payments for being nominally the head of the government Childrens Fund for the state. The government governor is telegenic he married and the actress he is following a Marketing Strategy and i do believe that electoral fraud was committed and i do believe that the party overspent the legal limits for its electoral activities and that it will never be sanctioned because what happened is that with the reconcentration and elimination of the state electoral, what you have now is a concentrated National Electoral authority that doesnt know whats going on at the level of the state, in terms of electoral regularities. Even even if it wanted to intervene, all of these disputes and up which time and again with the green card he is find would intervene to eliminate the fine. So what did the green party and our greatness election, 25 of the green partys green parties vote in this election came from chapels, how you went to mexico in mexico as you break the electoral law, time and again, it doesnt it doesnt matter you accrue millions of pesos and crying, some of the fines are removed by electoral authorities who are in your favor and the others you pay with with the Public Financing you get in your first year, or you take out a loan and you pay them. The thing is, you win. Even if you do so cheating. Even if you do have to pay the fine, so the incentive to break the law for every party, now are huge pew and the green party has shown that you can do this and you wont lose your registration. So what what you have seen and chop is going to be the roadmap for the pri and the green party in the 2018 president ial election. I want to thank all of you for calming, amb. Jones and dr. Dressler, i think this is been a terrific session. We covered a lot of ground, a lot of issues, well be following what happens and the different scenarios and will hope for the optimistic one. Weve outlined a good remark and hopefully that will be pursued, i think we should come back in six months and see how far were getting on that road. So. So thank you very much for calming. [applause]. For the past seven weeks a series of wildfires have sprung up in 15 counties in california. According to the Business Insider these wildfires have tried more than 250 mi. 2 of california landscape which is already suffering from the worst drought in the last 1200 years. In may, the Senate Energy and Natural ResourcesCommittee Held a hearing on wildfire management with the chief of the u. S. For service, well have that for you tomorrow afternoon at four eastern on cspan. This weekend on the cspan network, politics, books in american history. Saturday and night at eight eastern on cspan, congressional profiles with four congressional members, sunday night at nine with elections coming in october well show you a debate among the four National Party leaders in canada. On on cspan2 on saturday night at ten eastern on big tv afterwards, through the use of technology you can reign in the power the federal government. Sunday evening at seven, seven souther talks about the city and nagasaki japan the morning it was bombed in 1945 to today. On cspan three we commemorate the 70th anniversary of hiroshima nokia sakae japan and the end of the war in the pacific. Our Program Start saturday morning at ten. Later well visit the American University the hiroshima nagasaki museum. And sunday morning at ten our coverage continues with the 2000 documentary on the making of the atomic bomb. Later, interviews with two bomb survivors. Get arc. Get our can plead schedule at cspan. Org. On the next washington journal, your phone calls and journals of the fox news and president ial candidates debate. After that time file of the u. S. Census bureau and the Washington Post discuss voter turnout and demographics of the voters since the 1970s. All on washington journal, live journal, live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. Welcome to the table, tom manger he is the president of the major piece association, and chief of the Montgomery CountyPolice Department in maryland. Thank you. Thank you for being with us. I want to talk about real spike of crime around the country and big cities, a lot of variables involved. We started talking amongst ourselves amongst the chiefs in the country, we were all noticing the spike in homicides, spiking shootings, and so we decided to get together. We got to together on monday, what we found was not only were we all seen a spike in violent crime, but we were seeing commonalities among that. Things like the impact of synthetic drugs, were seen at shooting scenes, tremendous large number of shell casings, it wasnt just one or two shots and dozens and some of these things. We saw the perpetrators of these homicides, all seem to have lengthy criminal records and youre asking yourself, why is this person out in the first place . Why were they still in jail . Were seeing commonalities among the suspects in these cases and so many didnt finish high school, some didnt have any job skills, some were violent offenders who had served jail time but were now back on out on the street. The good news, for us or something that we could use from this meeting, is when you look at all these commonalities it gave us some direction about how we can start trying to address some of these issues. Montgomery county is just outside washington d. C. , during the riots at baltimore, and the drugstores that were looted, there is a real uptick uptick in crime in the greater baltimore area, they see that its in connection with some of these uptick in use of drugs. In working with the commissioner we are looking at all the drugstores that were looted and theres tens of thousands of doses of narcotics that are on the street. Its almost like theres a drug war going on in the city where rival gangs, from distributors, illegal drug distributors are fighting each other to get their share of the market. This has resulted for the city, in the uptick in homicides since the on rest over freddie gray. What about synthetic drugs . First of all what are they and why have they become such a prevalent problem. I think they have, and im not an expert on synthetic drugs but what we know is these are drugs that are manufactured that are having a real dangers impact on people to take them. What we are finding, in the old days when people would take pcp, and confront somebody who is high on pcp they had superhuman strengths, were seeing were seen the same kinds of things with people who are taking these and that. They are very violent, theres been a few cases in this region, a people dying in Police Custody as a direct result of the use of these synthetic drugs. One of the issues we are dealing with is the legislator are playing catchup to try to make sure all of these ingredients that are being used for these synthetic drugs are actually illegal. Because synthetic marijuana, and flavonoids that people are manufacturing, was they make a certain recipe illegal, then they will change one ingredient so all of a sudden we have a more difficult time in Law Enforcement, charging someone because they changed and angry the aunt that hadnt been made illegal. So legislators around the country or try to play catchup to stay ahead of these synthetic drugs. If you are are a Police Officer or part of the police you can give us a call on this line 2,027,488,000. Tom major is joining us and i also want to talk about race relations. Ferguson, cleveland, Baltimore Baltimore how are Police Chiefs dealing with the. It has had a tremendous impact, and of course the anniversary Michael Brown shooting is just a day or two away, so we have been dealing with this and the impact of ferguson for a year now. I really started and number of National Conversations and Police Chiefs and him talked about force and deadly force, and the militarization of police and the diversity of a Police Department doesnt reflect the diversity of the community we are serving. What is the relationship between the Police Department and the community . I think one of the thin