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Money all the way to a drug cartel. >> if you want to capture and indict a top leader, you dont follow the dope. you go after the money. >> our end game was not arrest one. our end game was not shut down this store and seize a million dollars. our end game was to dismantle a cartel by following a money trail from a street level money laundering investigation. what was unique was that the stores were owned by the cartel itself. there had been banks in miami that had been co-opted by traffickers, ...

During the early 90s there was the crack epidemic. a dramatic shootout took place in a neighborhood in colombia on tuesday. >> cocaine fuelled violence in colombia and the streets of america. and this is what i signed up to do was go after these guys responsible for sending drugs to the united states. >> you can follow where the dope goes or the money. if you follow the dope you get underling. if you follow the money you get ahead of the group. money is what this is all about. >> one day i was s...

Building. president trump says he is locked and loaded, although the white house says that doesnt necessarily mean military action. how would you be handling this attack on the saudi oil production facility if you were in that position? >> first off, i would be a prt you would speak softly and carry a big stick, unlike this guy who just throws out sweets contradictory tweets. we dont know where he stands. does he want to meet with rouhani without any preconditions or not? hes all over the map. w...

>> an inmates nonlethal overdose at his job in the laundry facility sparks this full-scale investigation by sergeant lawton and the isu team. >> today were conducting a search of the pia warehouse laundry searching for any kind of contraband. last month we had an inmate overdose back here in the prison industrys laundry on his job site. >> since corcorans laundry facilities often act as a contraband distribution center for the inmate population, this may be one of isus best chances to catch the ...

>> pull the boxes down, check up high. bring them down, maybe have them hit it again. >> after hours of searching, sergeant lawton and isu team find their first piece of contraband in the form of an inmate manufactured shank. >> this appears to be an oven rack out of the kitchen, sharpened to a point. kind of a crude handle on it right now. >> one of these racks, its really concealed. close to the window. you know this, area here, its hand-to-hand transactions of dope. weapons, whatever.

Although the isu cell block search didnt turn up any drugs, these officers quest to stop inflow of contraband into corcoran is never ending. >> going through the mail and i caught this letter. if you look at it, you can tell it was wet at one time and dried. you can feel that it has something on it. so what im going to do is i will test it with a nic test to see if it comes back positive for amphetamines. see how the paper turns brown right away, its a positive test for amphetamines. if it had g...

Stay of just under 22 years. these inmates have plenty of time to get involved with violence. >> the smallest indiscretion could go ahead and kick off a straight war. >> hand-to-hand transactions of dope, weapons, whatever. >> there have been more than 350 stabbings since the prison opened its doors in 1988. >> i enjoy hurting people. >> they dont play games here. >> bottom line, its easy to get into corcoran. >> armed robberies, whatever i have to do to support my drug habit. >> i smoke methamp...

I mean, hes been in more historical situations, according to his own memory, than forrest gump. i mean, this is unbelievable, how many things he has been part of that he really wasnt part of. >> sean: [laughs] thats perfectly -- if im remembering forrest gump, he was in everything. >> heres whats going to happen, though. hes going to keep making these gaffes -- and by the way, im no brain surgeon, but that guy, hes got something missing. w >> sean: david axelrod is not a dope. he even said this ...

Counsel from anybody. >> whats new about that? >> well, like i said in the article, theres nothing new about it but in my opinion its getting worse. and somebody once said to me, whats the red line? i used the potter stewart line. its like pornography. you know it when you see it. the red line for me was the comments about the four congresswomen. i am a republican. i dont agree with any of the four congresswomen but i agree with their right to have standing to stay in the country and be citizens...

Trash buildup and rat infestation. as someone who practiced law there for years, i find it heartbreaking. in fact, the situation is so dire, experts have been sounding the alarm for a potential for a plague outbreak. i went to see the devastating conditions. watch. ♪ >> the entire l.a. basin is at risk for a public health crisis. now, if it ends up being typhus or plague, i dont know what its going to be, but rodents are here and we are one of the only cities in the country that doesnt have a ...