he spent four months in a filthy jail and was chained to his bed. mexican authorities released him under heavy pressure. joining us now from miami is corporal hammer. how are you feeling corporal? feeling a lot better. bill: let s pick it up when your ordeal began. you drive down with a friend to brownsville, texas check in with the u.s. authorities. what do you tell the u.s. people? we told them we have got this hunting shotgun, and we re trying to go through mexico legally what do we have to do? they gave us paper work to fill ourt. said you know if you declare it with this paper work you should be fine. we paid a fee, we crossed the border. and. declared the weapon and after that, things started going wrong. bill: you go to the mexican side, you show them american
bill: we are hearing for the first time from the u.s. marine held more than four months in a notorious mexican jail. john hammar s case made international headlines when a picture of him chained to a bed was made public. he is talking to bill o reilly how he ended up behind bars in the first place on a questionable weapons charge in mexico. we told them, we ve got this hunting shotgun and we re trying to go through mexico legally. what do we have to do? they gave us some paperwork to fill out. said, you know, if you declare it with this paperwork you should be fine. we paid a fee. we crossed the border. and declared the weapon. and then that s where short while after that, that is where things started going wrong. all right. so you re in a winnebago. you cross into matemoros you go voluntarily to the