The two leaders announced a border security and economic agreement during a joint news conference after a meeting at the White House.

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Canadian House of Commons Members returned for the fall session to question Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his Cabinet about deficit reduction, foreign policy, and upcoming legislation.

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This week on Q&A, our guest is author and 1997 Nobel Peace Prize recipient Jody Williams. She discusses her newly released autobiography titled “My Name Is Jody Williams: A Vermont Girl’s Winding Path to the Nobel Peace Prize.”  Williams shares details of her prize winning work on the campaign to ban the use of landmines and her career as an advocate for world peace.

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On Tuesday, a House Homeland Security Subcommittee held a hearing focusing on border and maritime security challenges and metrics for measuring progress.

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This week on Q&A, our guest is author and former Washington Post reporter Keith Richburg.  He discusses China and other countries he has lived in as a reporter for the past thirty-five years.  He recounts details of the exclusive story he reported in the Post about blind Chinese activist Chen Guangchen, and his attempts to leave the country.  Chen’s release was ultimately granted after negotiations involving then U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.  He explains the co-dependency of the U.S.-China relationship and gives his personal assessment of the future of China. Richburg also shares details of the jailing of Communist Party Chief Bo Xilai which he states exposed a lot of “corruption and shenanigans” at high levels of the Chinese Communist Party.  He talks about his time in Africa, where he gathered information for his first book, “Out Of America: A Black Man Confronts Africa,” published in 1997. He explains the difficulty of entering North Korea as a journalist and provides insight through video he was able to take, into a society which few journalists are allowed to enter.

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Gustavo Mohar, the former Sub-Secretary for Population, Migration and Religious Affairs, at the Interior Ministry in the Government of Mexico, discussed the changing migration patterns between Mexico and the United States.

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This week on Q&A, part two of a discussion with historian and author Timothy Naftali. He talks about the oral history project he conducted during his tenure as Director of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California. Naftali details the challenges he faced as the first federal director of the museum which was privately run for seventeen years.

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This week on Q&A, our guest is Bloomberg syndicated columnist and author Amity Shlaes. She discusses her newly released biography of the 30^th President of the United States, titled “Coolidge.” She traces the life of Calvin Coolidge from his early days in Plymouth Notch, Vermont through his presidency and ultimate return to New England where he died at the age of 60.

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Mark Shields, syndicated columnist & analyst on the PBS “NewsHour” discussed his early days in politics and shares stories of his role as a legislative assistant to Sen. William Proxmire (D-WI).  He also talked about his work on the presidential campaigns of Sen. Robert Kennedy (D-NY) in 1968 and Sen. Edmund Muskie (D-ME) in 1972. 

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This week on Q&A, our guest is Cathy Lanier, the Chief of the Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Department. She discusses the department’s growth in the last twenty-three years since she has been a police officer. She talks about the homicide rate in the District of Columbia being the lowest number in the past fifty-one years. She describes the reasons for this number, and looks to the future growth of the area as an opportunity to add officers to the force.

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