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Released after apparently suffering severe brain injuries in captivity. that is raising serious questions about what happened to the exchange student after his arrest in 2016. and about the remaining three americans we note rogue regime is currently detaining. lets bring in frank levin. author of home front to battlefront. thanks for joining us. have you spoken to otto warmbiers father or anyone connected to the family? >> i have not. but all over the nation today we are celebrating dads and kid...

Are really thankful for him. and we are also thankful to rex tillerson and to president trump. they wanted otto home. and i believe, cindy and i believe made this happen. we are thankful for that. >> tucker: so you said that once this process is over in the next couple of days you hope to get back to being a family and living a conventional life. what do you think the lessons on this are, your sons captivity in north korea? why did this happen? >> being in the wrong place. the lessons of ottos c...

Media. the american aide worker, kayla mueller, who was kidnapped in 2013 coming out of a doctors without borders hospital, kidnapped, tortured, and ultimately died in captivity. he personally tortured her. this is someone, the yazidi people -- i mean, the list of atrocities is just too long to recite here, diana. >> reporter: it is. and it was a culture that he managed to, you know, permeate throughout his fighting forces. and it is a culture of indescribable brutality, torture, as you say, wha...

>> im able to talk to you on ottos behalf. i am able to wear the jacket... that he wore when he gave his confession. >> juan: and emotional news conference in ohio, the father of american student otto warmbier taking questions from reporters on his sons horrific time in captivity in north korea. mr. warmbier tormented a brutal regime for terrorizing and brutalizing him, sending him back to america in an unresponsive state. fred warmbier thanked the trump administration for all it did to secure o...

>> im able to talk to you on ottos behalf. i am able to wear the jacket... that he wore when he gave his confession. >> juan: and emotional news conference in ohio, the father of american student otto warmbier taking questions from reporters on his sons horrific time in captivity in north korea. mr. warmbier tormented a brutal regime for terrorizing and brutalizing him, sending him back to america in an unresponsive state. fred warmbier thanked the trump administration for all it did to secure o...

>> bill: this is going to be a moment. were awaiting a news confronts from the parents of otto warmbier. 22 years old, college student at the university of virginia. released from a north korean prison days ago. he is back in ohio but in terrible shape. said to be in a coma. we expect an update on his condition and possible details about what he endured at the hands of the regime while in captivity. that live press conference coming up in a matter of moments. you will not miss a minute here on "...

Korean dictatorship. we have very little information about his captivity. the condition for warmbier went unnoticed for 15 months. so were watching this and will bring you the remarks live here in a moment. >> shannon: a defiant stand in the face of violence. the congressional baseball game will go on tonight. k every six months im accident free. because i dont use my cellphone when im driving. even though my family does, and leaves me all alone. heres something else... i dont share it with mom....

Warmbier, the father of otto warmbi warmbier, who was just released after more than a year of captivity in north korea. fred, the father, very grateful but also a little bit angry, frankly. grateful that his son is home, angry at the north koreans for holding him for so long, lying, he says, about what happened to him. the north koreans say that he had botulism, took a sleeping pill, which put him in a coma, says the north koreans lied, and also, frankly, i think fred warm beer frustrated that t...

Detention in north korea american college student otto warmbier is back in the united states. his parents say hes been in a coma for more than a year. questions swirl this morning about his had health and what exactly happened to him while he was in captivity. want to get the latest from paula hancock live in seoul. just recently his family found out he was grave lie ill. what do we know? >> reporter: thats right. it was just last week that mr. and mrs. warmbier found out their son was in a coma...

Captivity by the north koreans, otto warmbier sentenced to 15 years hard labor. for crimes againstorof nfense,t poster to take home as a souvenir. his parents have been begging for his return. and since then, learning just last week that, their son had been in a coma for more than a year. heres terry moran. >> reporter: this afternoon, the medevac plane bringing otto back to t down in alaska, en route home to cincinnati. his 17-month nightmare in norts lea asrekoe coming after secret talks in os...