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♪ ♪ [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you! ♪ this is "nightline." >> juju: tonight, inside the world of snoop dogg. the chart-topping artist and entrepreneur dropping some hot tips. note drop it like it's hot ♪ >> juju: one on one with our michael strahan. >> nobody starts off riding high. >> juju: opening up about the real-life experience behind his new movie. >> i am your new head coach.
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>> juju: the "underdogs" and his unlikely friendship with martha stewart. also the hot news snoop revealed exclusively to us. >> what's up next? >> well, i can let the rabbit out of the hat -- plus gringo hunters. the law enforcement unit you've probably never heard of, tracking down american fugitives wanted for alleged crimes trying to escape across borders. the elite squad who hunt them down to bring them to justice. >> fleeing south of the border does not mean you're going to get away with it. run, but you can't hide. deepfake taylor. explicit and disturbing content of the a.i. superstar flooding the internet. the call for action. (chef vo) fancy feast. chef-inspired. cat-adored. every silky broth, every impeccable paté, every delicious detail... brings you and your cat... closer together. fancy feast. love is in the details.
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>> reporter: snoop dogg knows what it means to be riding high. ♪ snoop dogg ♪ >> reporter: hits like "who am i" catapulted him to hip-hop fame in the '90s. later, "drop it like it's hot" would bring him to the top of the billboard charts. in all, selling more than 30 million albums world wide. now, three decades in, the 16-time grammy nominee is a business mogul and pop culture icon. >> to be in the music business, to a businessman, to be an actor, to be a producer. how do you have to compartmentalize everything? >> i'm mastering the craft of who i am. and to be the best who i am is to do the things that make me feel good. and the main two things is fun, right? fun, and funds. if it makes funds and it's fun, i'm in. >> reporter: i'll deal with that one. snoop having a lot of fun on screen in his new movie "the
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underdogs," playing two js, a former pro athlete court ordered to do public service coaching youth football. >> i am football legend jason "two js" jennings, you knew head coach. >> how much of you is in two js? >> 85%. and then 15% is my coach, k-mack. his spirit is the same way as far as the way he coaches with intensity and foul language. you know, the old-school style of coaching, f-this, mother -- >> before we can be the best, we gotta master the fundamentals. pretty boy! you missing pass after pass. >> reporter: i love the title of the film, "underdogs." >> from underdog to wonderdog. i started off as a underdog. you're the one they don't pay attention to, but you see it all happen. you master you, be the greatest you you can be.
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rudolph the red nosed reindeer. they didn't play, cuz didn't give him no love. when his nose lit up red, santa claus blasted him, they all had to follow him. this is the same thing. >> reporter: you've got a great cameo, george lopez. he played your high school coach. mike epps plays your assistant coach. kandi burruss plays the judge. tony gonzales is in the movie. >> strahan, you in there too. would you like me to show you? >> some would say, who needs family when you got money, fame, and your own tv talk show? you know, i was at the pinnacle of my comeback when michael strahan told me i was about to become a part of his family. but you see? he ain't a part of my family. y'all are. >> you see that? >> reporter: not what i was expecting. not what i was expecting. i was about to say -- >> that's your oscar award.
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>> reporter: the movie, a nod to another influence on snoop's life, his unlikely friendship with martha stewart. from "the martha stewart cooking show" -- >> i want to take yours, i don't trust mine. >> reporter: to the $100,000 pyramid" game show. >> you pull them out of your garden, they're bad. >> weed. >> i have a feeling her shout-out is a little better than mine. >> i'm recommending community service with the long beach recreations department. >> i thought i was getting some martha stewart kind of treatment. >> yeah, you know, i couldn't -- martha's a little -- she's a mean lady when she don't like things, so i'm kind of this school with her school. she's teaching me etiquette and all kind of things. i'm on my best behavior. >> reporter: she sent you a he is message to me. here's your girl martha. >> hey, snoop, congratulations on your new film. one question. why didn't you give me a part? >> i'm going to blame it on the movie company. martha, they sent a script so your agent, they never returned
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the call. that's a good one. >> reporter: jokes aside, he says that the community he's build over the years inspires him. what made you want to make this fi film? >> i believe my youth football league inspired me to make this film, then the relationship that i had with so many kids that came out of my league. >> reporter: off-screen, he is known as cope snoop. his love of sports driving him to create a youth football league, making the sport accessible to kids in his community. >> i started asking, how much did it cost? $350 a kid. it was so much to keep the kids from not playing. i spent my money on brand-new equipment, bought fields, referees, rulebooks, did it all the right way. >> reporter: he also runs a program called the snoop youth special stars. >> we created a league for kids with autism, disabilities. we wanted them to have fun, too. we fry to give become and leave an impression that can be here when we gone. >> you talked about how lucky you were that you were able to
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find a purpose, something that drove you, something that didn't let you get caught up in the streets. and that is part of why you do the league, to give kids some hope? >> yeah, i felt like the league, it's like a rope that can swing you to greatness. all you got to do is grab on. football was the best thing that ever happened to me as a kid. it just taught me how to be a boy, it taught me how to have discipline and to have respect. so i wanted to give some of that back that was given to me. >> reporter: the chart-topping artist showing me around his compound in los angeles, home of death row records. his wife, shante, snoop's high school prom date, now his manager, part of the magic behind the scenes. >> how do you successfully run all these businesses? >> well, i'm a mother. so i had to raise three children. so now i'm just raising adults that's walking around here. >> who's the biggest adult you have to raise? >> snoop dogg. >> your husband? >> yes.
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>> you went to high school prom together? >> uh-huh. >> now you're grandparents. tell me about being a grandparent. >> i love being a grandparent. >> you think at some point your grandkids are going to go, boy, wow, i was -- wow, those are my grandparents? >> well -- my granddaughter, when they go to the supermarket, they grab the cereal or see a picture of snoop with the bottles of wine. "that's papa!" >> reporter: a softer side for an artist who broke through in the '90s, collaborating with dr. dre on tracks like "gin and juice." ♪ going down the street smoking smoking ♪ >> reporter: and dropping hits like "sensual seduction." ♪ only thing we ever do is play in the sheets ♪ >> reporter: more than three decades in, snoop can't be stopped. >> this is the mothership. >> reporter: we entered his recording studio.
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snoop breaking news. >> you got so many fans, what's next, what's coming from you next, what can they look forward to? >> i can let the rabbit out of the hat. i've been working on a record with dr. dre for the past eight months. >> no! >> we about ready to drop a single in a couple of weeks. so that's what i been cooking up. >> juju: our thanks to michael. "the underdogs" is out today on prime video. when we come back, meet the gringo hunters tasked with apprehending wanted american fugitives south of the border. crohn's disease. ee now, there's skyrizi. ♪ things are looking up, i've got symptom relief. ♪ ♪ control of my crohn's means everything to me. ♪ ♪ control is everything to me. ♪ feel significant symptom relief at 4 weeks with skyrizi, including less abdominal pain and fewer bowel movements. skyrizi is the first il-23 inhibitor that can deliver remission and visibly improve damage of the intestinal lining.
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♪ >> juju: welcome back. tonight, we embed with the unit tasked with capturing some of america's most dangerous fugitives hiding out in mexico. bringing in accused murderers, alleged sex offenders, even one of the fbi's most wanted. they're known reluctantly as the gringo hunters. here's abc's matt rivers. >> reporter: so we're in the city of mexicali, just across the border of southern california. because the city is so close to the u.s., there are some u.s. criminal suspects that think they can evade law enforcement by coming down here to mexico to hide. >> reporter: it's an old hollywood story. criminals believe they can outrun the law, escape their
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charges by fleeing to mexico. >> some of them end up getting surprised when they're met by a specialized group of police here in the state of baja california that have been nicknamed the gringo hunters. >> reporter: officially, this is the international liaison unit, a small team of state police in baja california, the northwesternmost region of mexico. unofficially, they've been called the gringo hunters. to be clear, they don't love the nickname. but it does fit. because their mission is to find and detain foreign fugitives, mostly americans, who cross the border into mexico hoping to escape the u.s. legal system. tell us about these guys. what's their day to day like? >> the mexican government has well-trained assets in fugitive apprehension, just like we do here in the united states. and we work with their
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government on these kind of issues, with people fleeing to their country. >> reporter: paint me a picture of who you are, what you do on a day-to-day basis. >> reporter: this is the leader of the unit. we'll call him jefe in our story. cases come from the u.s. department of homeland security, the fbi, and the u.s. marshals. many of the people they track down haven't been convicted yet. formed in 2002, the group has had some success. they say they catch an average of ten fugitives per month, sometimes more.
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sometimes they hit, sometimes they miss. now they're going to continue with the search. we embedded with the unit about a week. we got just a taste of how much work it can take to make an arrest. why can't u.s. authorities just come here to mexico and look for these suspects themselves? >> reporter: this is the officer who's in charge of today's mission. we'll call her rosa. she's briefing her team about a man suspected of murder in orange county, california.
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>> reporter: rosa shows the team photos of their target, david moreno, with extra focus on his many distinctive tattoos. the suspect is charged with killing 36-year-old griselda pina oreta, a mothe >> orange county sheriff's deputies discovered the body of 36-year-old griselda pineta -- >> this is how her family will remember her, dancing with her son. >> reporter: the gringo hunters have been tracking moreno for the past week.
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his hideout in the 3rd of october neighborhood is built into a hillside with winding roads, making it tough for police to see around corners. they need to get in and get out fast. >> reporter: on the way to david moreno's address, an unexpected sighting. david moreno himself. but the officers drive away. they don't want to let the suspect know that a team of police is swarming the neighborhood. >> reporter: the officers who spotted moreno let their boss,
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rosa, pass in a white pickup truck so she can try and make the arrest. >> reporter: the suspect looks like the man they're looking for, but the name he offers is not david moreno. the officers pull up his shirt and reveal a tattoo on the suspect's stomach, the very same one from the pictures the officers studied before they left.
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>> that was his reaction. "i can't escape." >> juju: our thanks to matt. the full episode of impact by "nightline": the gringo hunters" is streaming now on hulu. when we come back, the flood of disturbing a.i. content seeming to feature taylor swift, triggering a demand for action. my skin was no longer mine. my active psoriatic arthritis joint symptoms held me back. don't let symptoms define you. emerge as you. with tremfya®, most people saw 90% clearer skin at 4 months... ...and the majority stayed clearer, at 5 years. tremfya® is proven to significantly reduce
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♪ >> juju: finally tonight, artificial explicit images of taylor swift. here's abc's erielle reshef. >> reporter: tonight, the white house expressing alarm after explicit so-called deepfakes of superstar taylor swift flooded social media. the administration now calling out platforms for lax enforcement against artificial intelligence. one of the fake images of swift reportedly shared over 47
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million times on x in what advocacy groups say is a form of sexual abuse. >> there should be legislation to deal with this issue. congress should take legislative action. >> reporter: x saying in a statement, the platform has a zero-tolerance policy toward such content, and they are working to remove all of the images. this the latest example highlighting the growing dangers posed by artificial intelligence as a source of misinformation, targeting celebrities and our elections and before the new hampshire primary, the biden campaign denouncing this deepfake robocall encouraging people not to go to the polls from what listeners thought was president biden. >> your vote makes a difference in november, not this tuesday. >> reporter: that voice, not the president's. it was artificially produced, prompting a criminal investigation by the state's attorney general. >> juju: our

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