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Inside mexico with the inside and outside of law enforcement. nick valencia, thank you very much. >> we'll have more on the meeting in a minute. i have new video i want you to look at here of the hotel room where guzman was held while police waited for back up to arrive. martin savage went to that motel. martin? >> reporter: this hotel is located on the outskirts of the town. maybe about, oh, three or four miles. about six kilometers. when you look at it, it's a perfect place for federal authorities to bring el chapo. remember, it's just after they've had a shoot out. after they chased him, ...

Could say they know where your family is they know where your children go to school. so the fear that people have is extremely strong and that's what they are up against. that's why the cartels were a real threat to the mexican government. we have to wake up to that. >> i want to stick with corruption. you have been in mexico 15 years. you have been studying the corruption. you say it still blows your mind the level of corruption you have seen. how high up does it go? >> historically corruption has gone to the top of the government. in this case and i don't believe the president was involved i...

Excavation. the tunnel stretching for a mile and inside a half built house. el chapo, a cocaine kingpin and head of the multibillion dollar drug cartel is a complete savage with ties across mexico and the u.s. now, details emerging after his first recapture in 2014 u.s. dea agents suggested his relatives were looking for a way to break him out of prison. the director of the prison here just about an hour's drive from mexico city off the job now as well as several guards at the facility. we know state prosecutors are interviewing more of them. this is clearly feeling the frustration for the peo...

He came out on video confessing to this. you never really know what you are dealing with. >> that is staggering. that is an incredible illustration. this is a huge embarrassment for the president of mexico. so what does he do about this? >> well the first thing you have to do to get any credibility is recapture chapo. he has to really take security issue seriously. when he took the presidency he thought, if he changed the conversation, people careless about drug cartels and violence. mexican officials said look why are you always putting this on the front page? massacres on the front page. mex...

>> welcome back to "new day." michaela is off today. cameras were rolling when mexican drug kingpin joakim el chapo guzman escaped from prison. take a look at the surveillance footage footage. you can see him pacing back and forth before stepping into the bathroom stall. a few seconds later, he vanished. >> think he was having second thoughts thinking of doing his time? >> what was he thinking. he vanishes down to the tunnel below. >> now there's information suggesting u.s. drug agents warning mexican authorities about a possible prison break in the words. let's go to polo sandoval live from m...