Every air traveler entering Mexico is vetted against US databases. The air passenger screening system Mexico has in place involves these checks against US national security and criminal data bases. There are plainclothes US officers stationed at airports in Mexico working with Mexican immigration officials to protect the United States. This joint security program has been in place for at least six years and is a huge asset.

Our stance remains unchanged. (Chernomyrdin) doesn't even understand the program he has proposed.

We started participating in the program in 2004. We started with six students at the Rockledge hospital, and now we have 12 there and two in Melbourne.

But all you really need to get started is a software program to record audio.

They have done everything they could to get this program started.

The program is already funded. Everything is in place.

Their program is relatively expensive, but a lot of it is conditional. We don't know what they're going to cut.

This is not a responsible program now. It is nothing to do with substance.

If you could have a news program without commercials, it would be better. But is a news program with commercials better than no news program at all? My view was, I'll take the one with commercials versus no news program at all.

Everybody's got to come to the table to make a program like this work,