the piece he reportedly is bragging about supplying more heroin and methamphetamine and marijuana and cocaine than anybody else in the world. he brags about submarines and airplanes and all of that. this is maddening to everybody across the country if they ve had to bury a child or something due to drugs, you know, they re probably pretty mad at sean penn. does public opinion play a role? it could. what s interesting about that statement, there s supposedly this videotape. that videotape, let s say his trial is held in the united states, el chapo s trial, that videotape could eventually come in. thank you for joining us. we ll be continuing to talk about this throughout the morning. 28 minutes after the hour on a monday. the golden globe winners are in. the winner is, straight out of compton. i m sorry folks. i made a mistake. it s right here on the card. going all steve harvey for a moment there.
manhattan district attorney says they are looking into leading a federal probe into possibly prosecuting him and also are looking for a subpoena to search his cell phone. well, i think that all that, brian, is absolutely a distraction. you have a man, el chapo, who was, by the efforts of sean penn, now captured, on record, saying he s the biggest heroin, meth and coke dealer in the world. i submit to you that that videotape will be admissible in all of el chapo s trials. it will end up with this notorious killing, drug dealing man who disrupted an entire nation, six stories underground in florence, colorado, super max, he ll be out of the daylight forever. that i think is a much more important goal than this distraction with sean penn. sean penn did i think the job of a journalist. like it or not, i really believe this was a huge scoop. let me just say this, i want to come down to the bottom line here. i would have done it.
even be relevant here are one that prohibits harboring a fumingtive and one that prohibits providing assistance to the fugitive to help the fugitive stay on the run. by merely communicating with the fugitive, getting information from him and reporting that information to a media organization, in this case rolling stone magazine, sean penn didn t commit any crime at all. you might ask, there is an affirmative obligation under the law to report the existence or location of a fugitive? the answer, no. there is the affirmative obligation to answer that question truthfully if it s put to you but there s no obligation to volunteer it to the federal government. you know the guy s business, el chapo s business-disdrugs and cocaine and meth, does a number of kids to say nothing of wide swath of the population ask he was the number one guy and he network was still operating presumably at his behest, even
thousands of people. a mexican newspaper published this grainy picture of the actor meeting with one of el chapo s lackeys in october. the paper report it came from mexican intelligence file is. the man sean penn is meeting then took him to interview the drug lord for rolling stone magazine. over the weekend the magazine published the enter interview. here s a picture for your scrapbook. penn says he tried to remember the thousands of victims but the simple man from a simple place, surrounded by the simple affection of heir sons and his toward them does not initially strike me as big bad wolf of lore now. mexican officials want to speak to the actor and are working on extra dating el chapo.
translator: for the first time, he hear from the drug kingpin himself. the drug lord agrees to an interview with actor and activist, sean penn. a cinematic plot twist to an already surreal story. [ speaking foreign language ] reporter: in a report, penn writes the pair met face to face in october, 2015. three months after el chapo s prison escape. according to penn, the meeting happened somewhere in the middle of a mexican jungle and included tequila and tacos. he was surprised by el chapo s, quote, chivalry. these clips are part of replies to follow up questions asked by a representative off camera. [ speaking foreign language ]