jillian: how members of congress are taking action. >> reporter: stewart scheller was thrown into thepeak out against the military, the biden administration's withdrawal from afghanistan and members of congress are speaking out against this, 36 members signed a letter calling for his immediate release, an initiative led by congressman louis goehmert. here are his parents on how he is right now. take a listen. >> he is being treated fairly. he sent a message the guards are treating him well. he looks good. he sounds good and we did have a wonderful discussion. they weren't going to let me in but i'm grateful to the general for stepping in and making sure we have an opportunity to visit. >> scheller is speaking to the honorably discharged, the optics, the only member of the military being punished having to do with afghanistan is the guy speaking out against the investors withdrawal and something else. todd: so un-american it makes you question so anything. parents being linked to domestic terrorism. >> reporter: there's an organization that represents 90,000 school board members called

laura: stewart scheller could guilty to six charges of violating the uniform code of military justice. as part of the plea agreement he will resign his commission and receive a punitive letter of reprimand and faces maximum punishment of forfeiting 2 thirds of his pay for 12 months. now, what is important is scheller is taking 4 spots ability, the same can't be said for the incompetent military leaders he called out in the first place. joining me is tony busby, lieutenant colonel scheller's attorney. the military judge is considering all this overnight. what are you expecting from him in the way of punishment? >> based on what was presented today we are looking at a letter of reprimand, separation from the marines and likely general discharge but we are hoping for an honorable discharge. like you said lieutenant colonel scheller took accountability, being punished for speaking the truth. we wrangled and wrangled about whether we could fight these charges but the lieutenant colonel made the decision that he would be accountable for his actions and we are wondering when the general offi

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lieutenant colonel stewart scheller was released as part of an agreement between his attorney and thel. no other details as of yet. we spoke with corr -- colonel scheller's parents. >> he served 17 years in the sands, leading his money, taking out people that made the ieds. he risked his life for his service people. he's now risking his livelihood for them. >> strong words from his mom and dad. lieutenant scheller was supposed to have a pretrial hearing today. we'll keep you posted on his situation. a lot of folks have been following this closely. happening now, lawmakers again probing the exit of the united states from afghanistan. it led to the deaths of these 13 u.s. service members being americaned by their families and by their country. in a moment, the top republican on the committee holding the hearing today, michael mccaul. first, lucas tomlinson that joins us live. hi, lucas. >> hi, martha. former president trump's national security adviser blaming the trump administration for what he called surrendering to the taliban. >> it was an agreement based on concession after concess

one of those service members, marine colonel stewart scheller posted a very critical video on social media last month, and he was relieved of his command for that posting. media reports today indicate that he is being held in pre-trial confinement. why is that? >> i don't have any specifics of what caused him to be held in pre-trial confinement, and i would certainly ask the marines to provide that insight. >> thank you, senator cotton. senator king, please. do you need a moment? >> the discussion that we've had thus far today is a peculiar one about decisions, and the assumption seems to be that you could make a different decision, for example, on august 31st. and everything would have been okay and we would have gotten more people out. my understanding, general milley, is that it was your view that making that decision to go beyond august 31st, and i'm using this as an example, would have had consequences which you and your colleagues judged would be far more damaging and dangerous to american lives than the decision to leave on august 31st. including being back at war with the tal

scheller's parent. stu and kathy, thanks for being here. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> martha: this hearing tomorrow, what do you expect to happen? what have you been told? >> we're told it's a closed hearing. stewart's to have an open hearing or aleast allow kathy and i to attend. a lot of people say why didn't he just resign? he wrote his resignation letter probably three or four weeks ago. >> first of the month. >> first of september. it was not accepted by the marine corps. we were told that he serves at the pleasure of the president and they'll let him know when he can go. so his legal team has worked all weekend to try and, you know, come to terms with the marine corps for a positive separation agreement. we are hoping tomorrow that that could possibly happen or they will charge him and decide whether or not they want a court martial. >> is he being held in solitary confinement? can you confirm that? if so, why? >> you know, i don't know why. they haven't submitted charges. i guess they think he's a danger to america. he's not a danger to america. he loves america, he loves the marine corps. you know why they put him in jail? to shut him up to keep him quiet. it's no coincidence there were cong