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Involved and put pressure on the mexican administration to let this guy go. people need to have common sense, and in this case there is no common sense coming from the mexican side of the border. megyn: yeah. you heard ian mcdonough, the colleague of john hammer, saying we cement a former president to help journalists get out of korea, why can't we send somebody over to help a guy who's served multiple tours of duty in iraq and afghanistan? the state department says it's working this behind the scenes, but they have to respect mexico's sovereignty -- >> they need to work it more, because mexic...

From florida where john hammer's from. and she says this is ridiculous, that's what you say. he writes to her saying, look, mexico has very strip gent gun control laws, and he says we've reinforced their application as a result of the flow of weapons illicitly purchase inside the united states -- purchased in the united states and then trafficked to mexico in the hands of criminal organizations. so he seems to be saying you americans have sent down a bunch of illegal guns, and as a result, we've had to get tough on guns, so you have no one but yourselves to blame for what we did to john hammer...

Connecticut, watch that. martha: more on this. breaking developments in the efforts to free a u.s. marine veteran, a veteran of iraq and afghanistan who is pictured right here chained to a bed in a notorious mexican prison. now we've got word that a bipartisan group of 69 lawmakers, this group is led by florida republican congresswoman iliana ross leyton who they say has been the most helpful. they are urging the obama administration to exhaust all diplomatic options to try to get this young man, 27-years-old, john hammer back home in time for christmas. his parents were here live on "america'...

Megyn: welt, we are getting new details today on the challenge to free a marine held in a dangerous mexican prison. john hammer's family had hoped to see him for christmas, but we are just learning the specific concerns raised in a recent letter from the mexican ambassador to officials here in the united states, the mexican ambassador to america, and why mexico is refusing to budge on the imprisonment of this 27-year-old veteran of iraq and afghanistan. here's a picture of john in prison. you've seen it here on fox news over the past couple of days. he's been held in this sort of solitary conf...

Miles from the border. no planes required, noing battalion, just 5 kilometers, he needs a ride, that's it. he needs a ride and a reprieve. megyn: you can see that interview there on fax news latino -- fox news latino. joining me now, republican congressman duncan hunter who is also a marine, and he says he is willing to make it his mission to win john's freedom. congressman, welcome back to the program. i know you say you are prepared f you have to, to go down to mexico. you're considering doing that to try to win this man's freedom, but how would you do that? >> well, we just need more attent...