Lawmakers consider spending more money on Mexico-U.S. Merida Initiative

French President Nicolas Sarkozy is in Mexico, where he’s vowed to help the country fight organized crime – Sarkozy is offering intelligence-gathering technology and law enforcement training to repress warring drug cartels. Back in the U.S., Congress is considering funding for the Merida Initiative. The two-year-old agreement between Mexico and the US supplies our southern neighbor with more than a billion dollars in military and intelligence aid. Increasing violence in Mexico, and some spill over into the US, by drug cartels is now giving lawmakers reason to analyze, and possibly increase, funding for the program. Washington Editor Leigh Ann Caldwell reports.