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One prison building to the next. investigators squeeze themselves through it to reach the other side. >> watch your legs. >> reporter: they push forward, retracing the prisoners steps. and just like them, dealing with unbearable heat. >> its getting warm. >> reporter: at 14 minutes, they are underneath the asphalt yard between buildings. >> now just exited the block area and entered into the pipe chase tunnels adjacent to b block and c block. >> reporter: its a maze that even these investigators...

>> coming to the end of e block. >> reporter: were not showing the investigators faces but their point of view is eye opening. they begin at the spot where matt and sweat cut holes in their cells. then follow the same six-story high cat walk before jumping down to take on an elaborate made of pipes and the prisons tunnel system. >> approaching the first significantly tight squeeze, the end of b-block leading into the c-block area. >> reporter: about halfway through the tape -- >> apparently nine...

Elaborate maze of pipes and tunnel system. >> approaching the first significantly tight squeeze, the end of b block leading into the c-block area. >> reporter: about halfway through the tape -- >> almost nine, almost ten minutes in. >> reporter: our first glimpse of the hole that takes them from one prison building to the next. investigators squeeze themselves through it to reach the other side. they push forward, retracing the prisoners steps, and just like them, dealing with unbearable heat. >...

Mckinney, texas. new developments in the search for two convicted killers who broke out of a maximum security prison in new york. richard matt and david sweat pulled off a sophisticated plan involving power tools and extensive knowledge of the prison building and an exit through a manhole in the town. but when they emerged a couple who lives in the town came home to find them walking in the yard. >> i asked them what the hell are you doing in my yard? get the hell out of here. he was like, sor...

$49 million to build a new prison building at guantanamo bay for "high value detainees," that includes people like 9/11 master minds. now this is according to "the new york times" and the money, i want to emphasize, $49 million, is in addition to the $150 million to $170 million that the top u.s. commander in the region says he needs tore improvements to the existing gouantanamo facilities. well, the problem is, well, this. investing in guantanamo would seem to break a rather big campaign promis...

And eliminate the fact that 40% with buy a weapon without any background check? >> we dont prosecute anybody under the gun laws right now. >> thats not responsive to the question. i hear you saying you cant do anything about high capacity ammunition magazines because it simply wont work yet youre proposing things that might not work. youre standard is anything that has a chance of working we ought to try except when it has to do with guns or ammunition. dont you see that people see thoo as a com...

And eliminate the fact that 40% can buy a weapon without a background check? >> we dont prosecute anybody under the gun laws right now. >> thats not responsive to the question. i hear you saying you cant do anything about high capacity ammunition magazines because it simply wont work yet youre proposing things that might not work. youre standard is anything that has a chance of working we ought to try except when it has to do with guns or ammunition. dont you see that people see that as a comple...

>> we dont prosecute anybody under the gun laws right now. >> thats not responsive to the question, mr. lapierre. i hear you saying you cant do anything about high capacity ammunition magazines because it simply wont work yet youre proposing things that might not work. youre into the art of the possible because your standard is anything that has a chance of working, we ought to try except when it comes to guns or ammunition. dont you see that people see that as a complete dodge? >> nra supports ...

We have accidents down to 1/10 what they used to be. we have supported prison building, supported projects where every time you catch a criminal with a gun, a drug dealer with a gun, a violent felon with a gun, you prosecutor them 100% of the time. if you want to control violent criminals, take them off the streets. thats what every police officer out there knows works. we supported instant check systems, getting the records into the instant check system. >> even the instant check system has hug...