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says that el chapo not only escaped from prison he escaped from extradition because the united states was preparing six extra extradition requests against el chapo guzman. how difficult is it going to be to find this guy? how poufrl is he how well financed is he? give us an idea of this specific drug lord? the fact of the matter is that chapo guzman is wanted in seven judicial districts here in the united states. chapo guzman is worth hundreds of millions of dollars. he heads up the most powerful drug cartel in mexico the sinaloa cartel. very astute very psychopathic and he follows the tactics of isis where he wants to control wide swaths of territory through terror. chapo guzman has dominated the landscape in terms of the drug trade in mexico for a number of
that, and the interior minister says that he believed that the people involved had the blueprints from the prison to help them do that. of course, that raises a spenter of corruption massive corruption endemic corruption in mexico that is certainly being talked about a lot in connection with this case. and there was a newspaper headline here yesterday, i think you saw it where they asked the question, 3,000 tons of dirt and no one saw anything? one of many questions being asked now, as that manhunt for chapo guzman widens. jose. and mark you and i spent the day there where you are at the prison, and at that home about a mile behind you. where el chapo guzman emerged from. here s the question that the press was asking and i think you and i should talk about it. 3,000 pounds tons and tons and tons of debris taken out from a prison that s maximum security just a mile away and there s
terrorism, bombs being made. it s right across the street from my house. a police source says he suffers from mental illness. authorities say he strabed a nurse in the head while being examined at the house of corrections after his fourth of july arrest. this is the second alenged isis-inspired terror plot broken up in massachusetts in just the past six weeks. ron mott thank you very much. i want to take you back here now to mexico. there are a couple new developments this morning in an all-out manhunt for notorious drug trafficker joaquin el el chapo guzman after he escaped from a maximum security prison on saturday evening. mexican officials have released his most recent mugshot, taken in 2014. they re also offering a $3.8 million reward for information that leads to his capture. in the wake of the escape three prison officials have lost their jobs. nbc s mark potter has more from outside the prison where el chapo escaped. what s the latest situation on
that? well good morning, jose. the mexican interior minister is saying now what many people were saying right away was obvious to them, that choppo guzman had help inside this prison when he escaped by using that tunnel. the prison director and the national prison director have now been fired, and investigators are also talking to 30 more than 30 prison employees as they re trying to piece together what happened here. officials here and in the u.s. and other people say that this was such a complex operation, this tunnel, that there had to be a lot of people involved both outside and inside the prison. they point specifically to the precision that was required to dig that tunnel from a house a mile on the other side of the prison over there that came into the prison right into chapo guzman s cell in fact specifically to the shower stall where there were no cameras. that took a lot of doing to do