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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 it's 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. >> it's a pleasure. i hope you all enjoy the film. >> joining us now with more reaction are two men that have tracked el chapo for years. former chief of operations for the u.s. drug enforceme...

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, it's 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. >> it's a pleasure. i hope you all enjoy the film. >> joining us now with more reaction are two men that have tracked el chapo for years. former chief of opera...

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. that's 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? >> well, listen, the hezbollahs is heavily involved in the global cocaine trade now along with their h...

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 there's 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 that can do it. they are in mexico. they are in the united states. just as chairman king said the oth...

Hezbollah's 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. congressman, whoever told you that hezbollah's now in 15 cities, i think they woefully underestimated it...