i'm a color rep from the aryan brotherhood. this was the aryan brotherhood. covered this up two years ago. i came into prison august 17th of 2006. i covered this up september of the same year. three weeks after me being in prison. i had a case with another aryan, which they say i told on them. so i get down here and the same guys i supposedly told on are here in this prison. >> at the prison we've had a lot of problems with an aryan organization. the big problem is instead of fighting between each other, the whites and the blacks, what's been happening more recently is problems with the aryans going after each other. and a lot of it is because there's been influx with the organization, and their leadership, and there's a struggle for control. >> since dropping out of the aryan brotherhood, nick compton says being attacked is only one problem. >> i'm being extorted for money. my mother and sister sent me over $500 since i've been here. >> can you identify your attackers? >> yeah. >> would you identify your attackers? >> yeah, no problem. >> compton is due to b

s office is heavily involved in the investigation of the aryan brotherhood of texas. day of the shooting, two of the aryan members actually pleaded guilty to racketeering charges. here is the police chief talking about that. >> i will tell you we are not ruling out any involvement until we know. we have no specific information that aryan brotherhood is a factor here. we have no indication that more hassy had worked any cases recently that were directly related to aryan brotherhood. >> reporter: now investigators are looking into the caseload of the accident assistant d.a. to find out if there might have been any potential threats but as of right now. those suspects remain or suspect remains at large. >> alisyn: as of yesterday they sent out an alert for troopers to be on the lookout of a silver model ford taurus. thanks. >> alisyn: new video of americans speaking out of gun control measures. a poll shows how many think it's a threat to their personal freedom. life and death hostage situation in alabama is in the fourth day and the life of a five-year-old boy is in the

member, and that began my life as a prison gang. >> the aryan brotherhood used robert to carry out their dirty work. >> prison gangs involved everything from stabbings, killings, drugs, weapons, whatever needed to be done. i did it. >> we warn you. the details of his violent acts is extremely graphic. >> there was an inmate that came up here. he was accused of raping a woman out on the street. because i was up in coming in a gang at that time, it felt to me to either make another inmate kill him or i myself kill him. i chose to kill myself. if i didn't kill this guy, or if i didn't have this guy killed, then i myself would be killed. that's how the prison gang system works. so me and two friends of mine, fellow gang members, went into his cell to play cards with him. the plan was for his partner in pinochle lose on purpose and to get him down to do push-ups. and when he got down to do push-ups, i got down on his back and applied a little pressure. that was my excuse to get up next to him. at which time, i put my arm around his throat, kind of choked him out a little bit to make him weak.

. >> as weaver predicted, the board decided that his role in the aryan brotherhood would make him too high a risk to return to general population. >> i guess that's about it. as you can see, this is no country club prison. there's nothing romantic about doing time. there's nothing cool about watching the years go by and knowing that most of them have been wasted. the next time one of your politicians talk about how easy we have it in there, just remember what i've shown you today and what i've said. thanks. >>> fight on the right, let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. i'm chris mathews in washington. let me start with this show happening on the right. as i speak you can hear the rumble of right versus right vitriol, fingers are wagging angrily, crazily in every direction now. karl rove, the architect of the iraq war, the escape -- is thumping around the country right now like a wounded elephant threatening to crush the party's fringes. tea partiers look out, he may not be able to beat democrats but he has big bad you in his sights. the fight has begun. while steve king, tea party g

. >> he was part of the aryan brotherhood. he was one of the big boys in that faction.nt. >> i guess a lot of people looked at me as one of the, if you mess with the white boys or there's a problem with them, joe's going to be one of them. he'll be up front. you'll have to deal with him. >> as a level six inmate, sears lives in solitary confinement and is allowed outdoors no more than an hour a day, which he spends in this exercise cage. hard time has taken its toll. >> he's lost a lot of weight. mentally he's not as sure of himself. >> a big piece of my life is ruined. it's just real sad, it's a waste of time. >> sears has no family or friends waiting for him. our crew was his first contact with outside faces in years. he opened up on how his time has affected him. >> it's kind of hard for me to explain. you start feeling. they talk about conscience. before you didn't have a conscience. you start developing a conscience. because you actually have time to sit in a cell all day and think about the things you've done. you know what i mean? it's like, man, why did i do tha

. >> as weaver predicted, the board decided that his role in the aryan brotherhood would make him too high a risk to return to general population. >> i guess that's about it. as you can see, this is no country club prison. there's nothing romantic about doing time. there's nothing cool about watching the years go by and knowing that most of them have been wasted. the next time one of your politicians talk about how easy we have it in there, just remember what i've shown you today and what i've said. thanks. >>> due to mature subject matter, viewer discretion is advised. >>> there's always a sense of underlying fear, and i think that it's important to not ever forget that. >> in a world dictated by fear, some resort to violence. >> while i was on lockup, i was always involved in excessive violence. >> when i was stabbing him, i was talking [ bleep ]. i said, you feel kind of vulnerable now, don't you? >> others become victims. >> as a person in prison for rain, which i am, i am persecuted in a multitude of ways. >> while some can only wait for the inevitable. >> i don't deal in hope. w

members of the aryan brotherhood, white supremacist, mexican drug dealers, meth drug dealers in this prosecutor which means he prosecuted a lot of bad people. sheriff says that has got them looking in all directions to see who could have done this. but right now the only thing that's really changed in this story is the reward for any tip. it's up to near $70,000 for anybody who can help catch the killer. erin? >> thanks to drew. and obviously just a bizarre and horrible story. as we try to get answers on who was responsible to bring that person to justice, the murder of assistant district attorney mark hasse, underscores the rift prosecutors and judges face in this country for doing their jobs. tom foreman is "outfront" with that. >> i will tell you that we're not ruling out any involvement until we know. >> reporter: even as investigators in this texas town hunt for the men suspected of gunning down deputy district attorney mark hasse, they are asking, was he targeted because he was a prosecutor? u.s. marshal service says the number of threats or potential threats leveled at judges

investigators believe he may have been targeted for investigating the aryan brotherhood. >>> massivesion at the head quarters of mexico's state run oil agency in mexico city. 25 people killed. more than 100 injured. more could be buried in the rubble. >>> today is secretary of state hillary clinton's final day in office. she's not leaving without issuing a warning. clinton says that iran is getting more involved in syria's civil war. so much so that a wird conflict involving israel is becoming more likely. just this morning, israeli war planes flew over ebb nontwo days after attacking targets inside syria. >>> finally, big news considering super bowl week end is a cop weekend for the comp sumgs of beer. the government is suing to keep anheuser-busch from buying the company that makes corona. bud wirz is the number one domestic beer. corona is the biggest import. as you can imagine, george and elizabeth, massive news down here in new orleans. >> oh, yes. >> a lot of concern there. >>> we're going switch gears the an airport security 'lettalert. a new report that says taxpayer money is

some cases he was working on recently and whether or not they could be tied to the aryan brotherhood, white supremacists. two members were sentenced -- excuse me, fled guiplead guilty houston, texas. that was a federal case, but the kaufman county attorney's office did aid in the case. he was shot dead right here in this sparking lot behind me, just as he was walking to work. no death threats against him at the time. soledad. >> drew griffin. this case really is a mystery. thank you for the update. another story we're following, that continues to develop, the hostage standoff in alabama that we've been talking about since tuesday, the little boy, five years old, kinder gartner, held a fourth day in that underground bunker. nothing changed overnight. the boy appears to be unharmed physically, they continue to sdmu communicate with the suspect. with a big pvc pipe coming out of the bunker. tell us more about the bunker. new details about that. >> reporter: soledad, a neighbor i spoke with the other day. the same neighbor who said dykes fired a pistol at him back in december. this neighb