the people i hinged my entire story on thursday and tyler graham.he never got to the point that he felt comfortable telling this story and he never even want to tell me. and a lot of other reporters and editors would say someone is not giving access. it's the point people just say i've got to move on and write something else. but you soldiered on. what made you want to keep going? >> fear of failure mostly. my editor and i., book editors are different and newspaper editors which we can talk about later, but they never really ask. essentially i have promised a book that would deliver this story and i was going to have to show up with it one way or another. i honestly hoped to get to one or both of those two guys were some of the other people that i didn't get to but i didn't. the flipside is that on this case which was a multi-year investigation there were two separate trials because of some of the deals that happened. there were mounds and mounds of records including testimony from a lot of the people involved. if the case ever goes to trial, there

for tyler graham, the visitor show up with a form that says, you know, they won his cooperation.they show up literally with paperwork that says that you can keep doing this as long as you help us out. and that's how it works. it's like they literally show up with a form that says hey, we will help you out. they look upon industry and those two guys in particular as one person is a sort of partner in helping take down the bad hombres, and the other person is the bad hombre. in that particular case his family ties were a big part of that, but if you look at the broader industry, they didn't need family ties. all they needed was country origin. >> it also showed this investigation, it wasn't a victimless investigation. someone ended up dead for their cooperation. could you tell us about what happened? >> a couple people at least ended up dead because of their cooperation in this story, but there's a particular young man who was a horse broker for the zetas, essentially would travel around the united states and by horses for the cartel, and eventually various government agencies have

tyler, as i said earlier, by twitter demand, how he roll here. you have predictions on the health care vote? >> not going to pass. >> no? heidi? >> yeah, no. >> kim? >> unless lindsey grahamsive to senator mccain. >> you heard it here first. predictions from some of the best. that does it for our hour. i'm nicolle wallace. "mtp daily" starts right now. hi, chuck. >> hi, nicolle. i'm voting for you. >> for what? lead-in? >> yes. as a lead-in. >>> if it's thursday, the president's popularity rebounds. >> tonight, the great gop divide. the brand new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll shows the president's war against his own party has take an toll, but not on him. plus -- the feds reportedly turn up the heat on the russia investigation on paul manafort. why is he suddenly at the center of it all? >>> and first responders in the earthquake zone race to save children trapped alive in a collapsed school in mexico city. this is "mtp daily" and it starts right now. >>> we'll get to today's big political headlines in a moment, but first, we want to check in on the 24/7 rescue operation taking place in mexico city. rescue teams of military police, medics, volunteers working to