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 immeasurablably. i'm just the messenger. and the message was delivered by the corporal's parents who obviously love him very much. and, you know, you can't let your son or daughter rot in a mexican prison. they didn't. they took action. they tried to go through the norm ma'am circles and the media. i wish had you done it earlier we would have had him out 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 f

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 immeasurablably. i'm just the messenger. and the message was delivered by the corporal's parents who obviously love him very much. and, you know, you can't let your son or daughter rot in a mexican prison. they didn't. they took action. they tried to go through the norm ma'am circles and the media. i wish had you done it earlier we would have had him out 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 f

i spoke to olivia and jon hammar earlier. i can't imagine what this has been like for you and your family. how are you holding up? >> just trying to take it one day at a time and praying that this exposure helps get him home. >> and, jon, you actually went down to visit your son. what are the conditions like that -- where he's held? >> they are horrible. third-world facilities. and it's not, you know, a secure facility either. and, you know, the road out there from town is -- you know, has problems daily. i was not authorized to go out there by the state department. i had to go on my own. >> i read you or olivia say that you believe he's actually being chained to a bed at times? >> yes. you know, it's not a very secure situation that he's in because the state department got him isolated from the main facilities that is run by the cartel. but the area that he's in isn't really a facility for housing a prisoner. it's a -- you know, a makeshift closet storage area, next to guard offices. and so, you know, i suspect to give them

as we have reported, corporal hammar secured permission from the u.s. customs office in brownsville, texas to carry an antique rifle handed down by his grandfather across the border. he then checked in with the mexican officials with the paper work. the gun was clearly a recreational weapon that hammar wanted to take to costa rica on a trip. authorities arrested hammar, threw him in prison and actually chained him to his bunk. with six days to go before christmas, that's where hammar remains in a filthy, corrupt, mexican jail. corporal hammar served two combat tours. one in afghanistan and the other in iraq. his marine battalion took heavy casualties in fallujah with 13 killed in action. when he returned home the corporal suffered from prost that plat particular stress disorder. he was treated for nine months. got out last may and simply wanted to take a vacation after his ordeal. there is absolutely no reason on earth for the mexican authorities to continue to hold. the reason they put him in jail in the first place was to extort money from his family

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steve, what do we know about hammar's impending release?ease could happen any minute. we have been following the twitter account of his lawyer and talking to his parents. his mother, his father, his attorney and his congresswomen all say that john hammar will be released sometime today. right now he is still in that prison. they say they are filling out the paperwork to get him out. there might be one catch. that antique rifle, that 60-year-old gun that belonged to his great grandfather, john hammar says he wants that back before he leaves. harris? >> harris: we understand he, again, was there to be on a hunting trip. so that was a family hair loom that he had planned to lose in that manner. what kind of share is he in because we have heard all sorts of things about his captivity. >> harris, this drama really started back in august, so he has been in a very tough mexican prison where a lot of drug cartel members are held and he has been stuck in there for four months. for at least part of that time he has been chained to his bed in a storag

john hammar. took what he thought and told on this side of the border a legalan teak gun that was given to the grandfather and the mexican authorities said it was not legal and he endured unconscoinable conditions. the mother said we will not be sure when we will hear from him. those are her words coming in on the fox affiliate in miami. more news as we get it brand new reaction to the controversy to film zero.30 and that reaction coming from an unexpected place. the cia going on record with strong criticism. that leads to the events of the capture of the most wanted person in the world. it takesarivitiic license and portraying itself as being historically accurate it is it a dralmization and not accurate. this come after a grouch lawmakers wrote to sony lawmakers said it was misleading by suggesting that torteur helped investigators to find osama bin laden. the american doctor kidnapped from taliban fightsers is thank the troops that saved his life. dr. joseph was kidnapped on december 5th on a h

it's time to bring hammar home., ionmcdonugh did the same thing. >> please, if we can take peep out of north korea, and they have reported all over the world and back up the entire rest of the world, can't we bring one of our own home? just one guy who is not 10 miles from thehere with reaction, co-f "the five," kimberly guilfoyle and eric bolling i had the family on the program. they have been trying for months. he's been here since august. let me play what jay carney. he didn't even know about this. they didn't know that an iscprak afghanistan war hero was in prison. >> we don't know all the facts of the case, what he did, what we didn't do, but his family has asked the white house to look into it. is there anything to ascertain whether or not he's innocent? we don't know what happened. >> iville to take the question. i don't know the facts myself on that. i will have to take the question. >> sean: that's shocking. >> pitiful, really. it's unconscionable. how can we allow someone who didn't do anything wrong, who

as you heard, it has been four months sins jon ham hammar's arrest. at times, he has been shackled to his bed, deprived of food and the target of death threats. his family says the state department has stonewalled and refused to step in to bring jon home. john bolton is joining us from washington, d.c. you obviously have experience as an ambassador. what would you have done differently up up to now? >> there is very little evidence that the state department, behind the scenes or in public has given the case the serious attention that it deserves. obviously with respect to jon hammar himself, this is outrageous, he tried to follow the procedures that are required to bring a firearm into mexico. it was obviously not intended for use. but for display purposes. we can say what's happened to him. the particular facts of this case are outrageous, in and of themselves. but there is a larger issue here. i think it has to do with the mexican governments blaming the united states for part of its drug cartel problem. you know, their view is it's all of these ame

hammar told u.s.order officials in texas that he wanted to take with him his great grandfather's antique gun and those officials told hammar no problem. but when he got to mexico. border agents locked him unon violation charges of the country's strict gun laws and since then his parents and lawmakers have been working feverishly to get him out. on friday this marine who served us in iraq and afghanistan and also suffers from prost thattatic stress disorder was greed. he and his dad drove back from florida and hours ago after they arrived home in palmetto bay steve harrigan was live there and had a chance to talk to the dad. steve, how is the family doing tonight? >> jamie, we got to see john hammar pull up with his father after this long ordeal. they drove directly into the garage. john hammar is now suffering from some sort of stomach ailment he picked up inside that mexican prison. they actually had to make a stop on the drive home from the border at a louisiana hospital and john hammar's father say

hammar's family said he was planning to use the antique shot gun to hunt and was told it was okay asg as he declared it and paid a fee. his mother says she's overjoyed her son is finally free. hammar met his father at the u-s mexican border friday night and they are driving back to south florida. they're expected to arrive on christmas eve.a cruise ship is being sanitized in texas after more than 100 people - mostly passengers- became sickened by norovirus. the crown princess docked in galveston today. princess cruises says the virus was likely carried onto the ship by boarding passengers. norovirus easily transmitted. the ship left venice, italy earlier this month for a 20 day cruise. >> the only survivor of the clackamas is speaking out. two people were killed in the teenager is setting nicias very thankful. >> 15 year-old is home for the holidays after a frightening ordeal. she says it is the support of families and others that have given her strength. >> they sent me cards, calling and saying that they were praying for me. that's really helped. it was a big impact. >> this day, t

alisyn: joining us is john hammar's family attorney, eddie levy. with us live from mexico city. good morning, eddie. >> good morning, aisyn. good to talk to you. alisyn: let me make sure we have the story correct. john has been held since august. he was traveling through mexico on a road trip with a buddy. they were going to costa rica to go surfing. why did john have this antique gun with him? >> i'll tell you the way i understand they were going to go hunting in costa rica and nicaragua. they had a single shotgun in winnebago kind of a camper. they had to go through mexico to get there. that is where they were going to use it, which is sporting gun used in the united states of america. alisyn: he did all the right things. he declared the gun. he filled out all the paperwork. he alerted officials that he had the gun and yet they still arrested him. now we understand that the prison where he is being held is notorious for housing very dangerous criminals, members of the lo is the zetas drug cartel. we have been reports he is chained to his bed in t

corporal hammar tried to register the antique gun.ding him back to the usa, they put him in prison and tried to extort money from him. don't be a pinhead. john, in california. bill, just bought tickets to see you and miller. not sure los angeles is ready for you. they'll have to be because we'll be at the nokia theater on march 1. we'll see everybody there. and also in phoenix february 22. dc, april 26. long island, june 1. tickets make great christmas gifts. david bliss, australia. i'm 23. studying psychology and i have as bergers syndrome of the i suffer from a sigma enough. you're welcome, dave. merry christmas to you. finally, factor tip of the day. last week i told you that the carpenters, karen and richard, christmas album, the absolute best. got a lot of mail on that. with a variety of opinions on my opinion. so tonight i'd like to offer some other very good christmas albums. johnny mathis, top notch. neville brothers, excellent. gnat king cole. i know all of those people are not all that current, but unfortunately, the justin

in august, hammar was thrown in a cell when a place run by thugs. he was arrested after having an antique gun belonging to his grandfather. and lawmakers here working for his freedom. late friday night, as you know, we've been reporting on fox news, he was released from jail with a police escort and reunited with his dad across the border in texas. the two driving together to miami hoping to be home in time for christmas and hammar suffers from post traumatic stress disorder ap his mother olivia told us he's been fighting some kind of a stomach bug, but today his mom said he had to go to the emergency room at a hospital in louisiana along the way. all we know right now is that they are awaiting test results to see exactly what the problem is. we'll bring you the very latest developments as we learn more. the family of an american missionary kidnapped in guatemala is counting its blessings tonight. 22-year-old sarah trevino of arizona is safe. she was serving a mission for the church of jesus christ, latter day saints in guatemala city. she was held

he is 27-year-old jon hammar. he served in iraq and afghanistan. behind bars in mexico since august! a mexican judge ruled to free him today from a notorious prison controlled by drug cartels just 15 miles south of the mexico-u.s. border. credit to hammar's congresswoman, and for intervening on his behalf and to our colleague, bill o'reilly, for loudly advocating for hammar's release. >>> while secretary clinton con have lesses from concussion, president obama is not standing on ceremony. president kerry, you're up. "the a-team" is next. >>> who else could be a gun owner while creating all sorts of anti-gun propaganda in his movies and then, finally, linking gun ownership to racism? michael moore? you guessed it. >>> contraception. cath thick -- catholics and the high court, the battle between church and state, also put your money on catholic league president bill donahue. bill donahue. we do are and he is look, if you have copd like me, you know it can be hard to breathe, and how that feels. copd includes chronic bronchitis and emphysema. spiriva

now, according to reports, jon hammar registered the guns with u.s.and border protection officials and was told when they crosses the border, he should do the same thing in mexico. it turned out not to be the case. on august the 20th when hammar tried to register the gun legally when he crossed the border, he was arrested and charged with carrying a deadly weapon and thrown in jail. here it is four months later and jon is sitting in a notoriously dangerous mexican prison. up until two days ago he has been chained to a bed. his parents have gotten phone calls in the middle of the night threatening to kill his son unless they wire money through western union. joining us are his pairntsz. thank you, olivia and jon for being here. >> thanks for having us. >> sean: he served in iraq and afghanistan, has ptsd. he trietd to get some help. he's going on vacation with his friends. he gets to the american border and tells them he has this gun in his rv, right, olivia? >> right. he disclosed it with a u.s. customs guide. they took pictures. they weighed it. they

his own father, jon hammar left this morning to be on the texas sides of the border and will meet his when he crosses over and the two plan to drive home to miami miami when he crosses the border. >>gregg: any idea what shape he is in? >>reporter: it is a tough prison and it hold as number of cartel leaders inside. part of the time the four months he was in the prison he was chained to a bed inside a storage room and he received a number of threats and his family received extortion threats saying that jon hammar would be killed and this is likely the opposite he planned on, a relaxing surf vacation after nine months of treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder after serving in combat operations in both afghanistan and iraq. >>gregg: thank you, steve, from south florida. now, we have robert young pelton the author of "the world's most dangerous places." is this one of the most dangerous places? >>guest: yes, mexican jails are very dangerous if you don't have the permission and protection of the people who run the jail which are typically the criminals. >>gregg: by all accounts this

marine veteran john hammar is on his way home just in time for christmas. good morning everyone, i'm greg jat in for. >> i'm martha maccallum. after spending for four months in prison in mexico on a questionable gun charge. hammar was arrested when he tried to cross the border with a antique shotgun his family said was an heirloom. steve harrigan is live. >> reporter: after four long months the 27-year-old former marine was released from the notorious prison late friday night after several hours of paperwork. he was accompanied by u.s. consular officials from the border between mexico and texas. he met his father and the two began the drive home. they had to stop off yesterday in a hospital in louisiana room in louisiana, john hammar suffering from the stomach flu. having trouble keeping food down. the goal was to get him home for christmas. looks like it will happen now. heather? >> steve, quite an ordeal for the family to say the very least >> reporter: a very tough time. they received threats, ex-torgs attempts threatening jon would be killed unless they

tomorrow ne dominic denatale. >> tremendous news this close to ramp and 27-year-old johnnie hammar isearing texas after being released from the prison and threats by cartel members amid terrible, terrible living conditions and great to be reunited. his father is now concerned for his health, unfortunately. and his mother describes him as being sick and he may have to go to the emergency room, the suspicion is, he could have bronchitis. the former marine's health has been a big concern during the whole four-month ordeal and previously spent months being treated for ptsd after a grueling combat experience in iraq and his lawyer says his being with the family is certainly helping, take a listen. >> and we have said that johnnie is innocent and always said it, and prove it, but, however, i believe in the next stage that you will see more education to some laws and something, this should not have happened. >> reporter: doesn't look like any media appearances from john or the family just yet. they really want to get him back home, to their home in florida as soon as they can and it looks li

marine jon hammar. he was imprisoned in mexico since august after being stopped at the border carrying an antique shotgun but is now going to be home for the holidays. the long ordeal ended with his release late yesterday. joining me on the phone is the attorney hammar family. thanks for joining us this evening. >> my pleasure, jeanine, thank you very much for having me. >> judge jeanine: it is our pleasure. first of all, let me say that you obviously did a fantastic job. you were in a position of balancing a lot of interests, public pressure. media pressure. state department pressure. legal pressure. you know, international relations between mexican and the u.s. governments. but how do you think that this thing finally was decided? >> boy, it is so complicated, jeanine, that i don't know where to start. i believe it was decided, i tell you, i believe it was decided in the court of law with a judge who knew when i told him and i put all my marbles in there, 90%s perhaps we sued with an injunction type l

east jon hammar. family says he and a buddy set out on a road trip to costa rica, suffering, hunting but he ran into serious trouble because authorities arrested the former marine after he arrived in mexico for carrying a weapon only the army can use. relatives say it's an antique handgun his great grandfather owned. hadt happened four months ago. >> i ask you to continue to pray for him. we got a call from him last night. he's in a tough situation because it's public in mexico so we pray that you pray for his protection and quick release. >> thank you. >> and it is a precarious situation now that we've gone public and that's our concern at this point. it's chaos down there. >> gretchen: can you imagine if you were those parents? they say they ultimately turned to their local congresswoman for help and she happens to head up the house foreign affairs committee. >> about it we continue -- if we continue to keep up the pressure i'm hopeful we can bring john home to his family, his friends and mom and da

take a listen: >> i say amen and hallelujah, a wonderful early christmas present for not just the hammar family but for our community. our community really rallied for jon's liberty. >> reporter: now, this took america by surprise and, mexico as well and mexico needed face saving, an exit for them and they determined he shouldn't have taken the weapon into mexico in the first place but felt he had never really intended to commit a crime and on that basis could actually let him go. jamie. >> jamie: i know they dropped all the charges, and i sure hope love leads to his recovery, the love of his family and friends at christmas, thank you so much, for keeping us updated. rick? >> rick: more funerals today in noun, connecticut. the final three victims of a deadly school shooting laid to rest. emilie parker, josephine guy and ana marquez greene, the 6 and 7-year-old girls, 3 of 20 people killed when a gunman opened fire at sandy hook elementary and we are learning more about the gunman, adam lanza, described as an awkward, peculiar kid who spent hours in the basement of his home where his moth

hammar, tell us about your son. he served in iraq and afghanistan.e was in combat there and in the marines, you know, serving his country honorably. correct? >> right. >> bill: tell us what he went through over there. >> he was a good marine. he went through two combat tours. the first was in afghanistan. his unit provided security during karzai's first -- the first election in kabul, afghanistan. and then he also was in fallujah, iraq, for his second combat tour which was much more taxing. >> bill: when he came home, he had post traumaics stress disorder when he came home? >> right. >> bill: did that influence him going to mexico? did it have anything to do with him going to mexico? >> yes. he had been in a nine-month in patient treatment in the napa valley called the pathway home and he had done well there and was really -- had learned coping skills and had gone through some exposure therapy and really felt like it had helped him. but it's an exhausting program because you're really working through tough stuff and when he got out, he wanted to take

friday night it seemed like jon hamm hammar's four-month ordeal was over. bringing a shotgun across the border for a surfing vacation with a friend. he was held in in a notorious prison and in this photo he's actually chained to a bed. >> we actually started receiving calls from members of the cartel saying, you know, we have your son and we're going to kill him. and they put him on the phone and i realized he really did. >> to make matters worse he was sifers from post-traumatic stress disorder after tours in iraq an afghanistan. after getting nowhere with the authorities they went public. >> bring him home. >> reporter: his attorneys agreed. >> he was innocent. i said i've got to get him up. >> reporter: hammar is on his way home driving with his dad from texas all the way to florida but it's been a bumpy ride. on sunday he was briefly hospitalized in louisiana. >> he had about a 103 fever, so they decided to take him to the e.r. >> reporter: family friend elisa cabrera. >> i think the anger that johnny feels at this point is coupled with frustration. why

in august hammar was thrown in a cell in a place run by drug cartel thugs.e was arrested after he crossed into the country with an antique shot gun that belonged to his great grandfather. he was on his way to costa rica wi for a surfing trip. law americas here working for his freedom. late friday night as you know we have been reporting on fox news he was released from jail with a police escort and reunited with his dad across the border in texas. the dtwo driving together in ey ma'am knee hoping to be home in time for christmas. he suffers from post traumatic stress disorder. he has been fighting some kind of a stom mag bug but -- stomach bug. he had to go to the hospital emergency room in louisiana along the way. they are awaiting test results to see exactly what the problem is. we will bring you the latest developments as we learn more. >>> the family of an american missionary in guatemala are counting their blessings tonight. she is safe serve ago mission for the church of jesus christ of latter day saints in guatemala city. she was kidnapped last week a

what about corporal jon hammar. just letting it hang in the air. it was amazing to me that we covered it in the morning and also at night, but when you look for other coverage, it wasn't there. megyn: it did get bashed, you know, the wheels started to move. he did cover a little bit on anderson cooper, i believe. how did this happen? the explanation is a little unclear. the father said the court rules on emotion and excluded evidence on the charge. my understanding is there will be a court hearing until january for diplomacy, pressure, what? >> will want to foul it up until he gets out of there, so not worth anything bad about the mexican government right now. because we don't know where the corporal is. we assume that everything is going smoothly behind the scenes. but his parents told me on my program that the state department told them they can do anything. that was very disturbing. hillary clinton -- we don't even know where she is. she never made a public statement about this or went down there. and obama didn't say anything either. jay carney

i have to ask about the phone calls that jon hammar's parents got all from these drug cartels.ll, that was last august. and it's at that point that we interceded to get him out of the general prison population. he is now being kept in a low kind of intensity place, more like an administrative place. and because it doesn't have a lot of bars, according to the ambassador, that's where they have actually, if you can believe this, chained him to the bed. but at least he's out of that prison population that -- where he was getting the threats. that was last august. he's been in this facility. a judge has not ruled on it. there is no excuse for this. and that's why we have got a very good mexican ambassador to the u.s., and i think he's working it hard right now. >> senator, from everything you know about this story, did jon hammar do anything wrong? >> no. as a matter of fact, when he went through the united states part of the border, he showed them the antique shotgun, he registered it so when he brought it in, back into the u.s., they would know that this was not a stolen weapon,

for the first time we're hearing from jon hammar's mother.overnment. >> it was my first night i slept all night without getting up. it was the thought of not wondering what's going on with him, is -- can anyone hurt him tonight. i honestly can't totally process it until he's here. >> hammer and his father are set to arrive home in florida today. >>> more that a dozen people catch a stomach virus on a cruise ship. six passengers were quarantined and crew members sanitized the ship in an effort to contain the outbreak. >> it was terrible. i thought i was dying. >> they were very good at taking care of us and took care of all our needs. they came in and sanitized the room three timday while we were ill. >> that sounds romantic. >> all the six passengers have recovered. >>> we've heard about strange criminals before but this guy might take the cake. dan bailey ran out of case and ran on a chicago door for help. when no one answered he broke in. he ate coffee cake, he even plugged in the christmas tree. it turns out the family was asleep the whole

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hammar senior came out and spoke to the media for a few minutes afterwards.said this is the greatest christmas he ever had. he looked visibly exhausted. jon hammar was released after several hours of with more paperwork after five months in the mexican prison. father and son drove back with the goal to get here by christmas day. they had to stop off at a hospital in the louisiana. john, jr., dehydrated with stomach flu. they're not sure about his condition. he can barely stand you. he walked inside with his mother and father. his father seems like an excited man right now, jamie. jamie: the mexican government, even with pressure from us to keep him for four months chained with handcuffs to a bed, it has been such an ordeal all along the way for this family. they had a lot of support. why did it take so long, steve? >> reporter: they really tried to go through back channels initially but then they made a much more public push to get him out, enlisting people in the community as well as their congresswoman and both senators as well. his mother, olivia said just

john hammar is back on american soil.lk to the lawmaker who helped set him free. >> and it's official alisyn. your good looks can now cost you your job. >> uh-oh. >> one court just ruling that it's perfectly legal to fire someone simply for being irreiss irresistible. >> guilty as charged. >> "fox & friends" hour three starts right now. hi this is victoria jackson, you are watching "fox & friends." merry christmas and happy holidays to all of our troops serving overseas. we love you. you are our heros. >> she has a lot of energy. victoria jackson has always had a lot of energy. that is one of her signatures. >> that's a good way to put it. >> it's great to wake up to. >> that's right. [ laughter ] >> we have so much going on on the show this morning. if can you see behind the scenes here. john cooking up great christmas. >> dag gum great foods. coming up in 30 or 40 minutes or so i have got your best gadgets. guys, wait until the last possible minute to buy gifts for their wives and ladies in their life. coming up i will