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Loyalty. he pays people very well. you get paid you know -- the average policemen in sinaloa can easily be paid by the cartel. listen its pretty clear that it was either money or fear that will have been applied to the various people in the prison industry or higher up that must have helped in that escape last week. >> i appreciate your time. thank you, angus so much for being with us. we appreciate it. >> its a pleasure. i hope you all enjoy the film. >> joining us now with more reaction are tw...

That provokes a sort of tribal loyalty. he pays people very well. you get paid, you know -- the average policemen in sinaloa can easily be paid by the cartel. listen, its pretty clear that it was either money or fear that will have been applied to the various people in the prison industry or higher up that must have helped in that escape last week. >> i appreciate your time. thank you, angus so much for being with us. we appreciate it. >> its a pleasure. i hope you all enjoy the film. >> joining...

Michael brawn himself. michael, how many hezbollah agents is it estimated could be in the u.s. right now? >> brian, congressman king, the chair of the homeland security, the house homeland security committee mentioned the other day during the hearing that the best estimates are, you know, somewhere around 200, possibly more. thats pretty shocking. >> now, in terms of their funding, and their continued growth, you link it to drug trafficking and go right back to the mexican drug cartels. how? >> ...

You know, these operatives photographing their transportation infrastructure, you know, listen, this thing is turning into a real national security threat. you know, these guys do have the ability to hit us at the homeland and we need to get serious about doing something about it. >> and if theres an operation against the iranians, you could look for the hezbollah to get the go sign right here at home. >> well, listen, they are -- they are iranians most important proxy and these are the guys tha...

Hezbollahs main benefactor. take a listen to testimony from just this morning at a hearing that congressman king chaired just a short time ago about the threat domestically. >> hezbollah has what al-qaeda could only dream of having, they have established relationships with the most powerful international drug trafficking and organized crime syndicates ever faced by law enforcement, and they, obviously, maintain close relations with other designated terrorist organizations around our globe. congr...

Murders. that is 48 a day for one every half hour. in the last five years 50,000 have been killed. at home, theyre known to operate in over 1,000 u.s. cities. >> its as powerful a drug lord as escobar was? i put them on equal footing. >> michael brawn the former chief of operations to the dea. >> guzman is a dead man walking. none of the guys ever live to a ripe old age where they are bouncing their grandchildren on their knees, telling them, you know, stories. that is just not in their dna. the...

Were 13,000 drug related murders. that is 48 a day for one every half hour. in the last five years 50,000 have been killed. at home, theyre known to operate in over 1,000 u.s. cities. >> its as powerful a drug lord as escobar was? i put them on equal footing. >> michael brawn the former chief of operations to the dea. >> guzman is a dead man walking. none of the guys ever live to a ripe old age where they are bouncing their grandchildren on their knees, telling them, you know, stories. that is j...

Agents to solve the murders of an american consulate worker and her husband. the shootings took place over the weekend in juarez, a city riddled with violence. she was shot to death along with her husband arthur, both of them u.s. citizens. they had just left a childrens party at the consulate, their baby was in the backseat. about ten minutes earlier, another consulate workers husband was fatally shot in his car and their two children, ages 4 and 7, were hurt. now the fbi and the dea are joinin...

But even most important is youve got a cartel leader or cartel leaders that ordered, that ordered these murders. so it is a very complex conspiracy, and suffice it to say its going to take some time to get to the very bottom of, but there is no doubt in my mind whatsoever that the animals who were responsible for these vicious attacks will ultimately be brought to justice. jane: yeah. as one official said, these guys have now pushed a button, and youve got the authorities bearing down. michael b...