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>> are we shocked? why should we be? >> we have a phone call talking about the state of the bureau of prisons and how they're under staffed. >> there are staffing issues, stkef nate hee, in the bureau of bring sons. especially ad up stray tiff, higher security, higher security level penitentiaries. you have got to have a better inmate to staff ratio. that would en tail someone outside his locked cell looking through and providing direct and constant supervision. that was the right call. that's what they should of done. >> juan, welcome back. this news broke on saturday. now we're back to talki...

Against you? >> you know, ari, i think that when you're born poor and you go through trials and tribulations, you evaluation that ability to bounce back. everybody know house to do good. what we learned early on how to do bad. so coming back was just my blood. >> we look at a young donald trump. >> yes. >> bad-mouthing harlem. we looked at president reagan singling out the drug epidemic. what did you learn from the excesses of crime and violence in that era that you had survive? >> you would have to have lived in it to understand, right. and at the time, when the rico act put a lot of minority...

Mexican prison reportedly hidden in a laundry cart, and he once got out of a safe house into a tunnel and escaped completely naked while police were closing in on him. >> chapo guzman i consider to be the modern-day houdini. he escapes from the two most maximum secure penitentiaries in mexico and one was the most spectacular prison break that i've seen anywhere in the world. >> reporter: one former bureau of prisons official says unlike his previous a2e78ttemptattempt like el chapo can get to the warden or guards. >> it's going to be impossible to corrupt one person, two people. there's just...

Maximum secure penitentiaries in mexico and the one in altaplano was the most spectacular prison break i've seen anywhere in the world. >> reporter: could the kingpin get help in escaping from his former beauty queen wife? at his trial, a former associate of el chapo testified that his wife, emma cornell, played a role in that escape from altaplano, by passing messages to plotters. >> she can communicate to others to what exactly needs to be done to collect the intelligence he needs to escape again. >> emma cornell was never charged in connection with his escapes and his lawyers didn't comment...

In a laundry cart. in one escape, according to testimony, he was actually with a different woman than his wife. that woman testified that when police were trying to break in, he escaped through a trap door concealed under his bathtub which was set on hinges. he ran through a system of underground tunnels, completely naked. >> i consider to be the modern day houdini. he escapes from the two most maximum secure penitentiaries in mexico. the one was the most spectacular prison break that i have seen anywhere in the world. >> reporter: through it all, his wife was a confidante, who he met when she...