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Jan, let me start with you. explain to me this particular individual. this is supposed to be the highest security prison they have. how could this have happened? >> well, so far, everyone's assuming that chapo's escape was a result of internal corruption. if you look at the way he was able to escape it's a one-mile-long tunnel that ends in a building that was specifically built for the purpose of allowing him to escape. such an operation takes so much resources and so much manpower that it's almost impossible for him to have been able to execute it without help from the inside. in fact, mexico...

Good to have your steady hand. thanks. a massive manhunt to find mexico's most wanted man. guzman known as "el chapo" broke out of prison saturday night. the u.s. attorney general offering america's help. meantime we are learning how he pulled it off. slipping undetected in a hole in his shower. cnn's juan carlos lopez picks up the story. >> reporter: it is an impressive feat of engineering. a lighted tunnel running for almost a mile from a construction site in a sparsely populated area and under a security prison to a specific point. the shower in guzman's cell. it is more sophisticated.

Know what's going on in mexico you're misinformed. i thought with the political pressure on holding "el chapo" guzman in prison with this so much resting on the government and him being in a top security prison where there hasn't been escape before they couldn't possibly let him go. not only did they let him go, to see a tunnel with lights and air and railcars -- >> so that begs the question right, this mile-long tunnel that has oxygen tanks through it it's lit. the mexico national security commissioner also saying today there were motorbikes on rails to help him get out. what does this tell u...

Papers, i guess, in september and go down to a lower security prison. before you could refuse them. but right now they're doing a lot of shifting of inmates and stuff and we can't refuse it. >> what's going to happen to you? you'll miss him. >> well, yeah, probably might do a little ccu time. i don't know. i mean, i don't know. i really don't know how i'm going to react to it. but it's going to suck ass. >> i would rather stay here, but when he leaves this cell, it will probably be the last time i ever see him again. 72 and 36, period. that leaves me 33 left to do. that's basically life to do....

After adapting to life in a single person cell here, he was transferred to a lower security prison in 1998. he had more privileges there, but also had to share a cell. that's when things began to go very wrong. >> i'm not going to live with child molesters. i'm not going to live with punks. i'm not going to live with rats. i need my privacy and that's the most important thing to me. and i was determined to get that, and i got it. >> after his request to return to a single maximum security cell at kentucky state was denied, bennett took matters in his own hands, and at the expense of his new ce...