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It took a lot of congressional pressure and it took a lot of media attention. fox, again, i'm telling you, you guys what you did john hammar that family is just so grateful. they are constituents of my congressional district. but what they have got happening there in mexico. it is an unruly place. we wish the new president pina niento he is going to reform the penal system and judicial system. those jails, many of them are run by the drug cartels. that's why the inmates, the fellow cell mates of john hammar were calling the parents in the middle of the night saying your gringo son is dead unle...

Just with some time with his dad and sort of a road trip home. if he wants to get on a plane which would be my preference, i would love for him to jump on a plane immediately. but we will see how that plays out. >> you are probably just going to relax for the next week or so, right? just try to -- i can't even imagine. we don't know what that feels like anymore. >> right. i mean, people ought to know that this horror has been going on since august. and you know, it's now late december. >> right. >> i can't imagine, again, i said in the top of my remarks that anybody's son or daughter. the pare...

Them. >> laura: congresswoman, i think a lot of folks watching right now weren't aware of the fact that between january of 2011 and last june there were 144 murders of americans in mexico. now, a lot of people still go on their vacation in mexico and have a great time. i'm not saying not to do that. i'm not talking about that but it is a dangerous place. you end up behind bars in mexico and this is, you know, mel gibson did a whole movie about this called gringo, as a matter of fact. i watched that and it sounds like what was playing out in this situation with corporal hammar and money. they w...

Earlier. did you it and told the truth and the american people responded. mrs. hammar, just tell us when the first i understand the call was last night on thursday had you did you know this was in motion to get your son out today? >> we had gotten the call late thursday night from the lawyer saying he had gotten the call that it was pretty much a done deal at that point then we were sort of waiting to find out it was a done deal to find out how they were going to rule but it wasn't necessarily -- we weren't sure about when he was going to be released. so we were sort of weighing for that. >> b...

Prayer chains and all sorts of stuff for ingle and his colleagues and they were released and that was great. i just think it's important that this type of pressure be across the board and not just by one network or certainly one host. and, bill, right now we have a factor exclusive. joining us now on the phone is olivia hammar. she is corporal hammar's mom. and, bill, what would you like to say to mrs. hammar? >> bill: first of all i think that mr. and mrs. hammar were very courageous. they came on to the media no spin, they answer ad the questions honestly and they helped their own cause imme...