there wasn t an hour or a minute that you weren t thinking about this man and calling everybody and letting us know. and we are all as a group very happy. the state department has been fantastic. where are my guests from the state department? where are they? john, john sullivan. you guys were really fantastic. look at all those people that work at the state department. you re probably surprised to see that. but maybe i d like to ask the parents, your great parents, if you have something to say. i d like to get to the senators, and i d like to get to you, mia, and ask you also. could i start with the parents? i just want to say thank you to you personally for everything that you ve done. as well as the state department. but all of you. i just can t even tell you. i ve grown to love senator hatch and mia so much. not everybody gets to talk to senator hatch and mia love.
release. having a hard time. there s a trial going on. but the trial is not so much of a trial. and we re talking to the folks in turkey about doing something about it. but pastor brun doson, i hope y can hear us, we ll be helping you at some point. we ve been working on it for a while. he s been there a long time and he s a totally innocent man. mike lee work, you like to say something? i want to thank all those who have been involved in this. senator corker, senator hatch, representative love, caleb, the state department, everybody involved. josh, i wish you a warm welcome home. we ve missed you, we ve prayed for you. and marian and tammy, welcome to our country, which is now your country. [ speaking spanish ] gracias. very good, you understood that beautifully. very good, good job.
this without you. everybody here, senator hatch, mike lee, bob corker, i mean, the state department, we all work together to make this happen. and, you know, you don t know us, but we know you very well, joshua. we welcome you home. thank you very much, mia. it is true, every time i d seemy yeah look, don t mention the name joshua holt, we re working, we re doing it. but she didn t forget. she was out there pitching as was bob, as was mike, as was orrin. we really had a great team. that s a strongny ch nucleus, g job. we re doing very well in terms of the summit with north korea. looks like it s going along very well. as you know, there are meetings going on as we speak in a certain location which i won t name. but you ll like the location. it s not so far away from here. and i think there s a lot of goodwill. i think people want to see if we
and when everything happened last week, mia was the one that answered her phone. and was the one that got things rolling with senator hatch to save josh. i ve never seen mia cry before. it was a horrifying, horrifying week. and she got me through it with senator hatch. senator hatch s office i cannot tell you how much i love all of your staff. so thank you, thank you. and i also want to say thank you to president maduro for releasing josh and letting him come home. that s very nice. pop? she said everything. that s why i let the pretty face take care of this kind of stuff. very smart. you re smart. josh, would you like to say something? i m just overwhelmed with
your parents jason and laurie. you went through a lot. and you were in there fighting all the way. i want to thank bob corker, great job you did over there, great job. i want to thank mike lee andmy yeah you ve been every time i d see mia she d talk about you, josh, what about josh? i said, what about something else, can we talk about something necessarily she was always doing it. er on win hatch is a legend as you know in the senate. in this country. orrin, you were great. bob, mike, mia, orrin, i want to thank you very much. so we ve had 17 prisoners released during the trump administration. most people don t know that. you remember aya, she was there long time, three years. the previous administration was unable to get her out. fantastic young woman.