This is the cbs evening news. Glor good evening, im jeff glor. He has made news on and off screen for decades. But this may have been his biggest role yet. And now hes hearing the critics reviews. Sean penns secret meeting with the worlds most wanted drug lord Joaquin El Chapo guzman. Mexican Authorities Say that meeting which took place while penn was on assignment for Rolling Stone played a role in el chapo being recaptured on friday. We begin tonight with meg oliver its an unassuming back drop for an interview with the most notorious drug kingpin in the world. At the first given in dei had kas. The questions come from the cameraman. But they are written by Actor Sean Penn who met el chapo for seven hours last october deep in the jungle, and who convinced chapo to send this tape soon afterwards. During the 17 minute recording, the questioner asked, are you responsible for so many drugs in guzman says no, that is false. Because the day i dont exist, its not going to decrease in anyway
Extradition is a long process. It may take six months or more. He has good lawyers or i assume he does, the best that money can buy. And those lawyers are going to fight extradition. But hell be here. Hell be tried. He faces charges in seven states, charges ranging from . Seven federal jurisdictions. So its all under the federal umbrella. Theyre all through the department of justice. These charges show what this cartel was up to. They were bringing into the United States drugs in the most remarkable numbers. We have heroin, we have cocaine, we have marijuana, we have methamphetamine. But they came in by boats and planes and trains and submersibles. What you have here is one of the largest operations of Drug Distribution that has ever come into this country. What else . Money laundering. Kidnapping. Violence. This is probably the greatest defendant in terms of public are involved in the Drug Enforcement administration and the department of justice have ever seen. They want him and they
Sean penn who met el chapo for seven hours last october deep in the jungle, and who convinced chapo to send this tape soon afterwards. During the 17 minute recording, the questioner asked, are you responsible for so many drugs in the world. Guzman says no, that is false. Because the day y dont exist, its not going to decrease in anyway at all. As for drug trafficking, thats false. Ki the interview is a remarkable twist in an already convoluted tale. It was just two days ago mexicango authorities raided this Seaside Hotel and arrested chapo after a long gun fight. Then paraded him in front of the cameras, perhaps to soften theirha embarrassment over his escape from altiplano prison last july. The attorney general said it was actors and producers that lead them to the fugitive. Joaquin guzman had the intention of making a biographical film so h he reached out to producers. But this article penn wrote for Rolling Stone posted on their may have been one of the actors. The other was mexican
Temperatures this morning, ben. There is new video and new details of the capture of one of the worlds most wanted men, and the bizarre subplot featuring an oscar winning nbcs Gabe Gutierrez reports penn and together they traveled to mexico in october to meet with guzman. Guzman sot no, i think that if they find me, theyll arrest me of course. Penn would arrange this video interview and write an article for Rolling Stone , describing the process as a clandestine horror show burner phones,. Anonymous emails. And encrypted messages. graphic november, december, go into january 8 it would be three months before authorities would track guzman to los mochis. Penn has detoured into journalism before. Filing stories after interviewing president raul castro in cuba. And the late leftist leader, hugo chavez in venezuela. If guzmans extradited to the united states, legal experts say his admissions to penn could come back to haunt him. sot Professor Laurie Levenson Loyola Law School 38 from start
Lincoln avenue in the south bronx, hundreds of people in the street. There was a big fight, this knife one of several weapons that was recovered. One of the responding officers was shot in the ankle, and tonight Community Activists are speaking out. I mean, you cant even walk down the street anymore without somebody pulling a gun out on you, trying to slash your face, you know, stabbing you . It is scary. Police say the party, organized inside a rented hall, turned into a fight with kniveses, bats and guns, spilling into the streets around two a. M. Saturday in this neighborhood. Its dangerous because you dont know if youre safe. Officers responding, trying to calm the socalled jump up party that had been advertised on social media when gunfire breaks out. As backup units arrived, the officers engaged in a gunfight during which Police Officer stewart was struck in the right ankle. He returned gunfire, striking the male suspect four times. Nypd officer Sherrod Stewart receiving a visit