large amount of money. it s just a fact of life, ask any journalist who spent time there. you have to break your way through checkpoints. it s just the way things work. knowing this, major schueman sent money to zak to help facilitate his travels in the country so that they could get to kabul, so they could get to the airport to try something. even major schueman s mom trying to help she s a retired police officer and a force in her own right by all accounts, she wrote to both president biden and vice president harris to try to get help from the very top. the senior senator from illinois, dick durbin brought zach s case personally to the attention of secretary of state anthony blinken at a senate hearing. told him the story of second major schueman at an open hearing asking for the secretary of state s help, secretary of state said he would look into it. but zak story has become one in