>> no. >> mcallen chief of police victor rodriguez agrees.you believe father o'brien was a good, credible witness? >> absolutely. >> the d.a. also said he did not believe the former monk, dale tacheny. >> tacheny was not a witness that i could rely on. i believe that tacheny received all of the information that he wanted to say from rudy jaramillo of the texas rangers. >> the d.a. says the texas ranger rudy jaramillo fed the former monk information which he didn't have himself. lieutenant jaramillo says that never happened and that the d.a.'s claim is a great insult to his integrity. what's more, the d.a.'s concern about tacheny seems to ignore this man. >> back in 2002, i was a detective with the san antonio police homicide unit, and i was assigned to the cold case unit, and i had received a phone call. >> george saidler is deputy chief of criminal investigations for the bexar county, texas, sheriff's office. in april 2002, months before lieutenant jaramillo ever heard of dale tacheny, the former monk called detective saidler. tacheny gave h

i'm christi paul. >> i'm victor blackwell. >>> alex rodriguez.w know he's going to be sitting out the 2014 season after losing an appeal over his record setting drug suspension. >> 162 games, to be exact, this season. can't play in any post-season playoff games either. rodriguez denies the drug use alleged in the investigation though and the thing is, he says i'm going to keep fighting this. cnn's sports rachel nichols has more on the story from charlotte, north carolina. i know a-rod has claimed in the past the yankees aren't behind him on this because they want to get out of giving him that huge paycheck for the season. what more do you know about that? >> reporter: well, this is a tactic. look. alex rodriguez's legal team has clearly decided in the past few months that the best defense is a good offense so they are trying to make this into a larger issue, really trying to make this about anything that is not did alex rodriguez let someone inject him with steroids. take a look at the statement that he released here. "this injustice is major lea

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. >> narrator: officer rodriguez has received a report that he has an operative for the mexican ma mafia. >> your name came up in a report, victor. you don't know the report we're talking about? roughly 20 days ago? no, someone else was in fair view. the report says that this guy fears that you and a bunch of other inmates are basically strong arming him and other inmates and that you're ex-mexican mafia. you have a history of being identified as a gang member in the past. the thing is, there's 44 units in that unit. why would he do that? >> i don't know who he is. >> it doesn't matter who he is. the point is he identified you. we want to go ahead and try to weed out the major prison gangs from general population because these particular gangs are predatory gangs and they prey upon the weaker inmates. we want to get them out of population so we can make the jail, as a whole, safer for inmates and staff. >> so you understand what i'm telling you, right? >> i'm going on lockdown? >> you probably will today. >> why? >> my job is to figure out where we're going to house you at. >> but i'm not doing nothing. why should i go on lockdo

. >> i'm victor blackwell. 7:00 here on the east coast. west coast it's "new day" sunday. alex rodriguezn just sitting out. a-rod has officially lost his appeal of the record setting suspension handed down over use of performance-enhancing drugs and at least one new york paper is celebrating. look at this. this is the cover of the "new york post," a-dios. a-rod banished to an island. >> so clever all the time. a-rod has been shut out of major baseball's entire 2014 season if you haven't heard. 162 games. not going to be eligible for any post-season games. rodriguez continues, though, to deny claims of drug use and he vows he's going to keep fighting this thing. andy is here with more. so nobody was really surprised by this decision. were they surprised he's going to keep fighting it? >> that might come as a surprise. taking it to federal court is the extreme circumstance. a-rod has been expecting this decision the whole time ever since he stormed out of the first day of the arbitration hearing. he went on to a new york radio show and went off on the yankees, major league baseball and eve