Mar 03 Watch As Drug War Rages, What Could Obama, Calderon Do Differently? Hari Sreenivasan speaks with Eric Olson, senior associate at the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center, about the White House meeting between President Obama and Mexican President Felipe Calderon and the continued toll of the drug-related violence in Mexico. Continue watching
Mar 03 Watch Obama, Mexico’s Calderon Vow to Step up Drug War Cooperation In a visit to the White House, Mexican President Felipe Calderon met with President Obama, who pledged to increase U.S. cooperation in trying to bring the violent drug war plaguing both sides of the border under control. Hari Sreenivasan reports. Continue watching
Feb 17 Watch ‘Bravest Woman in Mexico’: 21-Year-Old Police Chief Takes Aim at Cartels Bill Neely of Independent Television News continues his series on Mexico's war against violent drug cartels with a profile of a 21-year old, whose first job is serving as one town's chief of police. Continue watching
Dec 17 Watch Pakistan’s Insurgent Havens Strain Ties With U.S. Though a longtime U.S. ally, Pakistan is accused of harboring extremists within its borders. Margaret Warner has more on how the U.S. has tried to prod Pakistan into eliminating havens for insurgents. Continue watching
Dec 16 Border Patrol Agent’s Death in Arizona Rekindles Immigration Issue By Hari Sreenivasan With the midterm campaign season in the rear-view mirror and issue ads fading from memory, the death of U.S. Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry in Southern Arizona this week shone a new light on the illegal immigrant traffic across… Continue reading
Oct 06 Watch U.S.-Pakistani Ties: a History of Needing Each Other, Patching Things Up With tension rising again between the U.S. and Pakistan, described as "two countries that need each other badly," Margaret Warner looks at the state of relations with Shuja Nawaz of the Atlantic Council's South Asia Center and Washington Post columnist… Continue watching
Oct 06 Watch ‘Crucial’ U.S.-Pakistan Relationship Tested by Airstrikes, Blockade The increasing violence in the Afghan-Pakistani border region could put more pressure on the already strained relationship between the U.S. and Pakistan. Margaret Warner has more. Continue watching
Sep 14 Watch Iran Frees One Jailed American: Will Other 2 Face Trial? Iran has freed one of three Americans held in the country for more than a year on accusations of spying. Jeffrey Brown talks to two analysts on the region for insight into Tehran's decision. Continue watching
Aug 13 Watch Napolitano: Immigration Issues Don’t Merit Constitutional Changes A new $600 million bill will put more personnel and security measures along the U.S.-Mexico border. Jeffrey Brown talks to Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano about how this bill will affect security efforts already in place. Continue watching
Aug 13 Watch Shields and Gerson on Voters’ Economic Fears, GOP’s ‘Party of No’ Payoff Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson, sitting in for David Brooks, analyze the week's top news stories, including voters' ongoing economic concerns headed into the midterm elections and the White House taking on "the professional left."… Continue watching