anna, what would you say to them? that she s innocent. she is an honest, good woman, a christian woman that would never do anything to harm her own country, jeopardize her freedom. let s hope for the best. way, from senator jeff flake of arizona. i know he s trying to help your mom. he put out a statement saying through a spokesperson, senator flake is personally monitoring the situation and he has had multiple conversations with the deputy mexican ambassador this weekend. we re going to put in a call as well to the mexican ambassador here in washington and see what we can learn. thanks to both of you very much for joining us. good luck. good luck, anna, to your mom and brandon, good luck to your
extension if rainier ra requests it. we re worried that she may not know she needs to request it. if they don t extend the 72 hours, he ll make the decision whether she can go free tomorrow or whether she ll be transported to a prison in south of mexico to wait for five or six months until her case is officially heard. does she have a lawyer? they retained a local attorney in nogalas, but we re hoping that works out. if not, we re working on getting an attorney who might be more familiar with that kind of law. brandon, do you think there s any chance she can get a fair trial in mexico? i don t know if she can get a fair trial. we re learning that the mexican judicial system is so different than ours. you know, the last image i had, i saw her yesterday in the prison, and they gave us visiting hours. we were supposed to have a few hours to visit with her, and they told us because she s not an official inmate, just being held there, we only had ten
memorial day. thanks very much for coming in. thank you. tell us about your involvement with veterans. all of us remember forest gump, the role you played, a significant role, back in 94 when that film came out. but you ve had an amazing involvement with veterans over the years. explain how this evolved. well, there are several reasons, i think, starting with my family on both my wife s side and my side. i ve got veterans. her side vietnam veterans, her two brothers, her sister s husband served in vietnam and was in for 22 years. and my side of the family, world war, korea, world war i. so that s a big connection there. and then my involvement with being in veterans goes back to the 1980s. we all remember how shameful they were treated when they came home from the war. it was a very difficult period for us, and they paid a price.
very much and she wanted me to thank everyone that has been helping her. she just seemed very strong. we cried a little bit. i cried more than her. i don t know how she s doing, you know, better than i expected. brandon p, yo, your sister-i was due in court today. what happened? any update on her legal status in the case? she wasn t actually able to meet with the judge today. what happened instead is she was brought to a small room where there s a metal mesh that divides her from the other people in the room. she met with the judge s assistant, the state attorney and her attorney. her husband wasn t allowed to enter into the room because they re stating he s a witness so he s not going to be allowed to be part of these proceedings. at this point, they ve said that tomorrow a trial will take place at 10:00. at that point, the judge will then make a decision by 6:00 in the evening. he is able to grant a 72-hour