Dave Mack

This is going to draw an incredible amount of it has drawn an incredible amount of media attention and an incredible amount of unwanted attention to the cartel from the U.S.

federal government.

The second point that I'm going to make is all the hallmarks of a typical cartel ransom and kidnapping ransom operation are not being met here.

There would be a clear and sophisticated way to pay.

They would want to be able to cash out easily and make that process very seamless.

This doesn't meet any of those criteria.

Yeah.

You first need to understand that Mexico is a very non-permissible environment, especially to search for a missing foreign national.

This is for a few reasons.

One, the levels of local government corruption in Mexico are almost unfathomable to a typical American.

Second,

wide swaths of territory are primarily controlled by cartels.

That's both from a physical security perspective and from a political perspective.

And that all leads me to say that the public, especially with such a high profile case, will lack an urgency or willingness to be involved in this search for fear of reprisals.

whether or not the cartel is or is not involved, they do control these areas.

So the public will be very apprehensive to participate in this.

And that all leads me to say that any search in Mexico that's going to have a positive result is going to come through US federal government diplomatic channels.

That is the number one main effort in any search taking place in Mexico.

Savannah Guthrie took to Instagram and posted a clip from the Today Show in a segment about her mom and writes, please be the one that brings her home.

And she also added, you know, tips can be anonymous and the reward can be paid in cash.