Savannah Guthrie

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The Cuban government is talking with us.

They're in a big deal of trouble, as you know.

They have no money.

They have no anything right now.

But they're talking with us.

And maybe we'll have a friendly takeover of Cuba.

We could very well end up having a friendly takeover of Cuba.

I'm coming on to say it is day 24 since our mom died.

was taken in the dark of night from her bed.

But we need to know where she is.

We need her to come home.

For that reason, we are offering a family reward of up to $1 million for any information that leads us to her recovery.

About once a year in the summertime, cousin Terry orchestrated a kidnapping of my sister and me.

It went down like this.

cousins would visit for a few days at our house in tucson and then on the morning they were to leave terry would wake us up early shushing us in the pre-dawn darkness as we made our escape we would all pile into her rickety station wagon and head north the sky streaking with bright oranges and pinks as the sun rose over the colorless desert landscape somewhere between phoenix and tucson terry would make a pit stop and let annie and me call home at a payphone

Mom, cousin Terry kidnapped us to take us to her house.

My mother would feign shock, protest how terribly she would miss us, then assure us she'd drive up to retrieve us in a few days.

For that reason, we are offering a family reward of up to $1 million for any information that leads us to her recovery.

Eastern on February 28th.