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Greek bailouts. europe insists that reforms become law this week before formal talks on a third bailout can begin. a leaked draft document estimates that greece needs as much as $96 billion over the next three years. mexicos president vows to recover joaquin guzman the boss of one of the worlds most powerful drug cartels. mexican authorities say that guzman escaped from a maximum security prison on saturday through a hole in his cell that led to a tunnel. investigators are questioning 18 priso...

Gotten so much attention. 12 prison workers put on leave after the escape of david sweat and richard matt in upstate new york. a lawmaker joins us to tell us why the officials are not to blame.

Process. things will go your way if you hold on. [ sighs ] someday somebodys gonna make you wanna turn around and say goodbye. ♪ say goodbye ♪ no, you just made it weird. welcome back. we have the story -- this story thats been developing this afternoon. new york prison escapee david sweat now back in a maximum security facility. new york corrections officials said swet was at was released from the hospital today and was taken to a prison in the central part of the state. sweat and richard...

Get her to fall in love with them. they went that route, tried to make the friendship try to make the connection. see which one of these two, you know lit a spark with her to see what they could manipulate her for. see how far they could get her to go. >> reporter: the idea that inmates and prison workers can get close and make deals for contraband comes as no surprise to those who know how american prisons operate. eric was an inmate at clinton. >> you could pay officers off, number one. they l...

I am a man of my word." that letter by the way, sent just before he and sweat tunnelled out of the clinton correctional facilities. joining me now, keith helwig author of "no place like home." keith, welcome. >> thank you, brooke. >> you yourself in talking about letters being sent from in the outside world. do prison workers screen letters before mailing out, i will see you on the outside? would that note have been flagged at clinton? >> no, that probably would not have been flagged. unless we ...

Uge favorites in that game on sunday. >> hard to forget that heartbreaking loss to japan four years ago. so it will be interesting to see what kind of match-up there is. if it england or japan? well see. andy scholes, thank you so much. we appreciate it. the next hour of "cnn newsroom" begins right now. happening now in the "newsroom," on alert, the fbi and homeland security prepping for potential terror attacks in the u.s. more police more security at celebrations this holiday weekend. plus...

About the prison workers? >> that should have been done immediately. the prison executives and anybody who was guarding or doing guard duty in that area should have been immediately pulled off and other people put in there. the thing that gets me why do we need to know this information? this country is in a form of thinking if we drop bombs in iraq, they want to tell everybody how many bombs they dropped and where we did it. why do we need to know that? >> what is the general harm? >> we dont kn...

I should have spoken up. can i please not go to prison. if the story is corroborated by the evidence he told the truth. if theres spaces where hes lying, theyll know soon law enforcement. >> yeah. speaking of speaking up, we are learning details of the when the officials figured out they escaped. "the new york times" has a great detailed piece about this. they say investigators initially believed the inmates were stuck in the prison system of tunnels. it wasnt until after they discovered an open...

As 24e got away from that prison. >> sweat also telling police he was with matt until six days ago when he decided the older man was slowing him down. the bombshell admission about the prison guard accused of helping the men escape. jean palmer the man who gave him the meat tools was not involved in the escape. the fbi is investigating a possible heroin ring at the clinton facility involving prison workers and two escapees. law enforcement officials spending weeks going through this almost caugh...

Investigators are also looking into alleged drug trafficking involving prison workers and inmates. and there is also focus on this man. prison guard gene palmer is accused of giving matt the froiszen meat containing power tools used to cut through those prison walls. according to the county pros krurt, sweat says palmer did not help them break out. palmer appeared in court on monday and did not enter a plea. david sweat was shot twice in the torso. its important that he stays alive so they can l...