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Cape. >> why were these men in prison? they were all convicted of murder and yet this was a medium security facility. >> we have 2,689 murderers in the arizona prison system, the majority of those are in close and medium custody. it's not the custody level that was the issue, it appears staff performance was the issue. >> and you made a point of saying this is a private prison. i mean, does that need to be looked at again, a couple people have raised that, as there's too many private prisonens, the standards -- the staff isn't paid as well, the standards aren't as high. is that true? >> i don'...

Happened? how were they able to break out so seemingly easily? >> i believe the reason the inmates were able to escape is the staff at this private prison were lax in performing their duties, and because the perimeter officer may have been lax, the inmates were able to pick a window of time in which to go to the fence, cut it, craw through the perimeter, even though it set off the alarm, cut the other fence, and then escape. >> and what role -- do we know anything more about the role that this woman allegedly played in it, this alleged accomplice? >> yes. it appears that the woman from the out...

>> as i pointed out at the beginning of this, these guys are convicted murderers. a pretty scary past. >> very scary past. one is serving a life sentence for murder and also another one was serving time for attempted murder and also another charge he had about 15 years to do and they were doing their time in a medium security facility, this is a private facility, this is not a state run facility. by any means, they were not allowed to be able to exit the facility. there's an investigation into how these men could have possibly escaped from that particular point. as you can see on the right sid...

Committee meets. that tells you his source is in or near the white house complex. they'll let you bring an outside source into a security facility? i think not. >> it raises a lot of questions. >> this is a nightmare for any idea of nonpartisan investigation. this is a nightmare for house leadership. they obviously don't want to move it to an independent panel. they don't want a special prosecutor. th they want the two intelligence committees. also this is a nightmare for the senate kbiintelligence committe. everything that's happened, i got a phone call out of the blue saying did you hear whe...

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