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>> i know that he was kidnapped, but so far, that's all i know. >> reporter: at the time, her 29-year-old son, luis, was working as a popular deejay in the city of veracruz. last year, a potentially huge break in the case. the police found luis's motorcycle and the individual who was riding the stolen bike. >> did you bring him in, at least, to interrogate him? and they said, "not yet." >> reporter: and do you think it's laziness? >> no, i think it's corruption. >> reporter: lucy has now organized hundreds of other mothers who are also desperately searching for their children here in veracruz....

How have we gotten to the point in this country where it's mothers who have to bear the injury of losing their children and then have to endure the insult of being forced to go then do the searches themselves? >> well, i think it's because the government, they don't care much about who has been disappeared. >> reporter: so, essentially, in this country, you can kill somebody, bury them in a shallow grave and get away with it? >> well, i'm a public servant, but i would have to say yes. >> that is a stunning acknowledgement tonight. i know you also pressed the mexican president on this. >> repor...

Six children. all dead. arkansas republican senator tom cotton on these fast-moving developments. senator, mexico president sayingen though the president has offered u.s. security forces to help out and get on top of this and the cartel that was behind it, they say no. >> neil, unfortunately it's plain that the mexican government can't handle this. president lopez obrador came into office saying the strategy would be more hugs than bullets. they work in a children's fairy tale but in the real world when three american women and six children were gunned down and burned alive the only thing that...

Concern. it's not all cartel related. it is just getting to be a powder keg. how do we even deal with that? >> unfortunately, neil, murders have reached a new high in mexico over the last year. when you come into office promising hugs not bullets to counteract criminals it's the same thing when you try to appease aggressive dictators or terrorists. they take it as a sign of weakness and they prey on the innocent. >> neil: if we can't identify the cartel involved how do we on foreign soil find out who did? >> first, neil, these cartels have already been designated transnational criminal organiz...

In the meantime we have to protect our citizens if the mexican government cannot. >> neil: so tragic. so unnecessary. senator cotton. thank you for taking the time. >> thank you, neil. >> neil: forget shouting death to america. if if iran one step closer to acting on it? (vo) the moth without hope, struggles in the spider's web. with every attempt to free itself, it only becomes more entangled. unaware that an exhilarating escape is just within reach. defy the laws of human nature. at the season of audi sales event. m...before she puts them in the dishwasher. so what does the dishwasher do? ca...