that point the severe anxiety that came across the recess came back the court found him guilty of a lesserr charge with three years and one month as a penalty with time served being two years so they left one year unaccounted for but they removed the house arrest and the travel ban so at that point working with the statete department we knew we had to get them out of the country because others have been released only to be rearrested so there was a quick scramble to get back to washington to get military flight to get them out of the country it was quite an ordeal. shannon: what was it like once you cleared turkish airspace and then you realized that finally this was over? . it was a wild ride to the airport in the caravan and
communicating with them regularly. they ve been working around the clock. it was touch and go during the hearing on friday. toward the end of the day they read a 62-page indictment recommending that he be placed back in prison out of house arrest. and that was his greatest fear that we talked about on thursday. and his wife was there sitting next to us. it was a panic that came over. and then they recessed, came back and essentially set the stage for him to be released. but there was kind of a window there that they had to get him out of the country. there was a lot of scurrying, the white house working on it, the state department working on it to get him out of the country. we took a military flight out immediately, stopping in germany and getting back yesterday they were overwhelmed to know how much this administration, the american people cared for them. what happened here is not only did this administration, this
american woman and her family freed from a taliban linked group. now, they were in captivity for five years. we are learning tonight that after their daring rescue, the couple, who have three young children that were born while they were captive, declined a military flight back to the united states. barbara starr is outfront live at the pentagon tonight. barbara, this is a huge story and a huge mystery. what do we know about how u this family was rescued? well, this is the american woman, kaitlyn, her husband, joshua boyle, canadian and three children born in captivity. what apparently happened is u.s. intelligence began to notice movement yesterday of some vehicles in the border area of pakistan and afghanistan inside pakistan. they had reason to believe it was this family inside those vehicles being moved to a different location. they calleded the pakistanis. the pakistanis surprised the u.s. a little bit. went after them and got them
military jet. now we now know from this inspector general report that one secretary mnuchin made that demand for the $43,000 military flight to miami, the treasury s travel office specially wrote to his assistance to tell him, you know, a commercial ticket for this flight is $688. right? right. but why have taxpayers spend only $688 on you when taxpayers can spend $43,000 on you instead? $688 was round trip, by the way. steve mnuchin s chief qualifications for becoming treasury secretary is he was the trump campaign s fundraising director with his inspector general report we know he s basically continued to raise large sums of money for the trump administration it s just now that he s raising the hundred for himself and raising it from the taxpayers and taxpayers have to eat it.
general report, steve mnuchin demanded he have a military jet for that trip quote in the event that the secretary s participation on a call during travel arises. so he asked for a military jet because at some point during that trip, there was the possibility he might want to make a phone call. or maybe somebody would want to call him. he s very important. it could happen. people call him. so that was in august. in june we now know that secretary mnuchin used a military jet to fly himself from washington d.c. to miami. a taxpayers paid $43,000 for his plane ride that day because again, he demanded that taxpayers pay to fly him on a military jet. now we now know from this inspector general report that one secretary mnuchin made that demand for the $43,000 military flight to miami, the treasury s travel office specially wrote to his assistance to tell him, you know, a commercial ticket for