jillian: good morning to you. back with quick headlines now. peter strzok is striking back. the fired fbi agent s lawyer insisting the bureau was trying to stop leaks and not coordinate them. it comes a day after a new text message between strzok and former fbi lawyer lisa page was revealed saying, quote: i had literally just gone to find this phone to tell you i want to talk to you about media leak strategy with doj before you go. and elizabeth splatter tells the release of her kidnapper incomprehensible. wanda barzeey will walk out of prison next week six years earlier than expected. the board of pardons and parole failed to give her credit for time served in federal prison. barzee and her husband brian david mitchell were convicted of kidnapping smart from her utah home in 2002 and holding the teen hostage for nine months. mitchell is serving a life sentence. a look at your headlines. send it down to you guys.
should have. ainsley: why though? who is letting her out? is it the parole board that s to blame here? that s right. you are exactly right. the parole board says its hands are tied under statutory construction here in utah that they have to give her credit for her federal time that she served and the mental institution time. so combining all of that, they say our hands are tied. they can t even have a parole hearing. the tragedy here is elizabeth never even gets to voice her opinion or to give her reasons why she doesn t want to see this individual out years early. ainsley: right. her life was forever changed. we all watched this unfold. we teach our kids that justice will prevail and then this lady gets out years before she is supposed. to say and didn t even do what she was supposed to do when she was in the institution. it s just unbelievable to all of us. well, thanks for coming on this morning. we wish you all the best. thank you. ainsley: give our best to elizabeth. thank y
captors is about to walk free. wanda barzee convicted of helping her husband brian mitchell kidnap elizabeth smart will be released in just seven days. that s years ahead of the schedule. joining me now is bret, a former u.s. attorney for utah and a prosecutor in the elizabeth smart kidnapping trial. he currently represents elizabeth. good morning to you. thank you for joining us. how. good morning, thank you. ainsley: in the world did this happen? will explain where the mistake was? well, what have you really is an unfortunate and really devastating gap in the law. she was convicted of both federal and state crimes. but, remember, she was also claiming to be incompetent. that time, when she was in the mental hospital, unfortunately is nearly six years that she is getting credit for, which really is bringing her out of the system much earlier, certainly much earlier than elizabeth would every want. ainsley: six years. she was supposed to be in