in 2013 kayla mueller
was a very brave woman who was working
with refugees
in turkey and syria when she was
captured and then
tortured and held in captivity for 18
months by the evil
isis leader abubakar al-baghdadi
in a letter to her family she wrote i
know you would want me to remain
strong and that is exactly what i'm
doing i remember mom always telling me
that all in all
in the end the only one you really have
is god the trump administration sought
justice in kayla's 2015 death
in 2019 joint chiefs of staff general
mark milley
named the operation that killed baghdadi
in honor
of kayla here's vice president pence
this week with kayla's parents looking
on
from the audience at the debate the
reality is that
when joe biden was vice president we had
an opportunity
to save kayla miller breaks my heart to
reflect on it but the military came into
the oval office
presented a plan they said they knew
where caleb was
baghdadi had held her for 18 months
abused her mercilessly before they
killed her when joe biden was vice
president they hesitated
for a month and when armed forces
finally went in
it was clear she'd been moved two days
earlier and her family
says with a heart that broke the heart
of every american that
if president donald trump had been
president they believe kayla would be
alive today
now two remaining british isis fighters
are in u.s custody on
charges stemming from the torture and
beheading of western hostages
including americans james foley peter
kasich
steven sotloff and kayla mueller the
alleged militants pled
not guilty this afternoon kayla's
parents
marcia and carl muller mueller join me
once again on this story it's it's good
to have you both here i know you've had
a very uh
emotional and busy week at the debate
and spending time with
vice president pence and flying to
another ceremony as well so i am
grateful to you both for being here
you know i was watching in the hall as
you were when
vice president pence said those words
and afterward
kamala harris senator harris said this
to the mueller family i i know about
your daughter's case
and i'm so sorry i'm so sorry
um what happened to her is awful
and it should have never happened and i
know joe feels the same way
and i know that president obama feels
the same way
marsha what was your response as you
heard that in the hall
wow well it was emotional to hear
first vice president pence speaking so
well about kayla
and what happened and
you know i i don't know exactly how i
would respond to that i'm glad she said
it
i do believe that everyone believes
kayla should be here
um even the last administration they
they just waited too long
to do anything over there i think a lot
of lives would have been saved
if more would have been one more action
would have been taken in 2014 at the
least
um so but i'm grateful that she did say
it
yeah okay that's good you know i i want
to just take a look at the painting
that was unveiled carl you were at this
uh you were both at this it's an amazing
painting of
of the raid similar to the one that that
killed al baghdadi and
kayla's pictures on it the ra the raid
that killed him was
named in honor of her birthday 8 14.
what did you how did you feel when you
saw this
well a friend of mine and myself had
been working on that project for a long
long time
we were due to to unveil that earlier
in the year but covet happened and we
had to postpone that but
that was an amazing amazing ceremony to
have
ambassador o'brien there and what our
governor
doug ducey said there was
brought me to tears he he really had a
wonderful speech i'm sure people can
find that on
on youtube or someplace if they care to
watch that ceremony it was
it was to honor our military it was to
honor the trump administration
and thank them for acting decisively and
quickly
to do the raid that took that guy out
i know you're both grateful for that and
the whole country is grateful for that
justice and we hope that there's justice
done with these other two individuals
who are now in the united states as well
um marsha can you read from the note
that you carry with you always
from kayla's own words
well it's it's just one of the things
she said there's
there's it's her own words and i think
in the where where we are right now is
important to read this
here we are free to speak out without
fear of being killed
blessed to be protected by the same law
we are subjected to
free to see our families as we please
free to cross
borders and free to disagree we have
many people to thank for these freedoms
and i see it as an injustice not to use
them to their fullest
marcia and carl thank you both so much
amen to that thank you thank you both
we'll be right back
after this