. >> jason and laurie holt say their son learned spanish as a mormon missioner and looked forward toenezuela bride. instead they say he has become a hostage and political pawn. >> please, lord, just bring him home. please, let this end. put my family become together. >> reporter: laurie holt and husband jason aren't sure they can bear another year of worry over the safety of their imprisoned son, josh. >> for a mother. you can't even explain how much it hurts. >> trade places in a heartbeat with him, for my life. let him come back and live his now. >> reporter: they were optimistic when they learned their son had been arrested last summer. >> i literally thought, okay. just sit down. we will get him home in the next couple weeks. he issen know se einnocent. there is no way that they can look at this kid, look at his background and find anything that he has done. >> reporter: jason and laurie say josh traveled to venezuela to marry tamara candelo, a woman he met online. >> i think at that age, you still haven't experienced life yet a yun do thi yet. and you do things for love some bod

. >> laurie holt and her husband jason aren't sure they can bear another year of worry over the safetyjosh. >> for a mother. you can't even explain how much it hurts. >> i would trade places in a heartbeat with him. i would live his life. let him live lhis now. >> they were initially optimistic last summer. >> i originally thought. silt down. get him home in the next couple weeks. he is innocent. there is no way that they, that they, can look in his back ground and find anything he has done. >> he traveled to venezuela to marry tamara, a woman he met on line. >> i think at that age, you still haven't experienced life yet. you do things for love that maybe somebody at our age wouldn't do. >> two weeks after the wedding, venezuela police raided at apartment, holt shared with his new wife, claiming to find an ak 47 and hand grenade. police arrested the couple. later on state television, the interior minister, called holt a gringo linked him to unspecified u.s. attempts to undermine embattled president maduro. >> a vibrant kid. >> our best memories. sitting around the island, cracking joke

today his mother, laurie holts is reacting to the news of a conditional release of the couple beforehe trial. i sat down and talked with senator hatch about the ongoing situation. >> been to jail on trumped up charges, it's pathetic because his parents are in utah and of course, they're just beside themselves. and he's got a wife and she has two children. and she's been locked up, too. so it's been a really, really tragic thing and complicated because of the political situation in venezuela. maduro is the current president is in difficulty and he has been difficult to deal with. he claims he'll try and resolve some of the problems. we'll see. elizabeth: are there calls for the president to step? >> the president has and so have a number of people at the state department. frankly, we've had a pretty good group of people to step in and asked venezuela to, you know, show some compassion here, and let this young man go. he was more of a missionary down there and he speaks spanish and he married this woman who had two children and they locked her up as well. and it's pretty pathetic and w