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>> 90 seconds left. washingt washingtonian, what was it like sharing a beach house with jon stewart. if you look in the picture, you can see jon stewart. and she said, the amazing thing is, jon wasn't always the funniest guy in the beach house. anthony weiner often made me laugh just as hard. jon is there on the far right. i can't tell which one of these dudes is anthony weiner. do you see him? >> you've seen other pictures before. >> i don't think you need to drill down on the picture. >> this is from the '80s. >> looking at the wrong picture. >> he is a funny guy. >> i don't think he's more ...

Background of someone isn't always admissible. sometimes it plays to the favor of a defendant, by the way. >> the media were all over the background of zimmerman. every accusation against him had a huge trumpeting and everything that was mentioned by jon wasn't in the media about trayvon. jon: the fact that trayvon was sort of cemented by the early photos that were released to him. the family brought out the photos of him young and age, age 12 or 11 like that. he was 17 when he died. we've seen the photos of the gold teeth and everything like that. you know, just the presentation in the media ...

As they drive to florida, and, a big worry, considering he has ptsd from combat experience in iraq and his lawyer, however, saying being with his family, his dad driving him, is helping. >> he's already gone, driving carefully with his dad, and enjoying relaxation, finally. what happened is, jon wasn't in a condition to be taking pictures, i'm sure we understand that. >> reporter: and, he's sleeping in the car, trying to get over the bug he has and, relief from being released at long last and, that did not come about without a lot of pressure from the state department and congress and the cong...

The hammar family but our community. and our community rallied for jon's liberty. >> reporter: heather, it got embarrassing for the mexicans, especially with the u.s. media coverage and really, the state department helped find a way out of this and the mexicans determined, they say, while it was illegal for him to have taken the weapon into the country, he shouldn't have don't he didn't intend to commit a crime and they could let him go. >> heather: good thing we had the media coverage. >> gregg: as lawmakers head home for the holidays, no deal in sight to avoid the fiscal cliff. we'll debate ...

Eve in time for the holidays. good news for the family and 48 hours ago, things looked very different, like jon would be spending many more months in his cell as the mexican authorities were taking a strict stand against his case, and, he spent the night in texas and they released him, just across the border, where he was being held during those terrible living conditions, surrounded by violent drug cartel members and jon's mother said he picked up a bad bug in jail and is pretty sick with that. and bad cough apparently but is in the car getting sleep and his health being a wig worry, after th...