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details on her time in russian captivity. we begin with one american who remains in russia, paul whelan and the details of the scale and effort to secure his freedom. details that may have come out of a cold war sfie novel or the cold war itself. also learning about the price that russia was asking for sending whelan back. namely, freedom for an assassin. . that's the man there. he is serving a life sentence in germany for what german authorities say was the state mandated murder of citizen of chechen descent who was tracked and murdered at close range. he was part of the kras russia wanted for the freedom of paul whelan. phil mattingly with new reporting. it's an extraordinary story. >> no question about it. it's the first real window into what president biden was talking about yesterday when he mentioned that the russians were treating paul whelan, quote, differently, than they were when it came to brittney griner. and what they meant by that is

there was a very clear sense among u.s. officials beyond the frustration they had based on how the negotiations were going on that what the russians wanted for paul whelan was what they viewed as essentially a lateral trade here. asking for an ex-fsb colonelk somebody abused of murder and being held in custody in vadim crass could have. now, what is interesting is they actually made efforts to try to pig out if there was some type of three-way swap that included the germans, where the germans would get something that could make this a feasible option. they never got to the point where they raised that to the highest levels for german officials underscoring the difficulty here. you get at the frustration. this started being raised bit the russians in the summer and they continued to go back to it over and over and over again. i am told by one official that the americans even made an offer as recently as the last two

weeks, one more time to see if they could add paul ultiwhelan into the deal. therm not given alternatives. what they were asked for was the same official they believed they couldn't get out of another country. >> we are learning about other russians in american custody that the white house is potentially willing to exchange. >> that's right. and i think this gives a good window in what u.s. officials have been talking about when they raised how much they were willing to put on the table. different offers. creative offers to some degree when they were looking at some way to crack what had not been an area they could penetrate when it came to bringing paul whelan home. two russian nationals currently in u.s. custody that were put on the table for the russians to consider to add paul paugh to the deal. alexander vinik, extradited it to the united states in august, convicted of extortion, of hacking, as well, roman seleznev, a cyber criminal

serving a 14-year sentence in the u.s. there was no sense from the u.s. official i spoke to that the russians were willing to consider them as vopgss. there is no clear answer why that's the case and why they have been so fixated on one individual held in a different country who is essentially a russian assassin. what u.s. officials will say is they don't believe the idea that there are no cards to play, no more options on the table is necessarily true. the official i spoke to said explicitly we are going to test that proposition in the coming weeks, not just months, anderson. they clearly are planning to put other options on the table. what those options will be and if they will be considered by the russians still very much an open question and one the whelan family would like an answer to soon. >> they are hoping to approach russians again in the coming weeks? >> that's our understanding at this point. one thing that is clear throughout this process is they are willing to put things on the table, things that past

administration, even this administration early on were not willing to put on the table. they are trying to find some way to unlock what they haven't been able to up to this point when it comes to paul whelan. i think one of the things you here from u.s. officials is even though they reject the charges outright paul whelan has, the fact he has been tried for espionage has raised the stakes about what the russians want in return. that is why this ex-fsb official continues to come up. whether or not u.s. officials can find what the russians view as something equal is an open question in part because so much of the frustration here has been the belief that perhaps this official being put up is what the russians want was a stalling tactic for paul whelan. >> thank you. new video showing some of what brittney griner's days were lining in a russian penal camp. her haircut short. work she was forced to do. rosa flores on griner's condition tonight and the

conditions she lived under during her time in russian captivity. >> we are gratified that brittney griner is back on american soil. >> reporter: welcome news on griner's return. we confirm brittney griner arrived at joint base san antonio. brittney griner now in her home state after nearly ten months in a russian prison. most recently serving her nine-year sentence in a russian penal colony. and there is new information about her life there. griner says she cut her long hair nearly two weeks ago and trimmed it to make her life easier during the russian winter and her attorney there says she was unable to do the sewing work she was assigned at the penal colony due to her large hands and because the tables were too small to accommodate her. president joe biden's national execute council folksspokespers saying she appears to be in good health. >> very, very appreciative of the effort to get her home. >> reporter: griner now

undergoing a medical velgs before being reunited with her life cherelle and the hrest of her family. a senior biden administration official saying the negotiations to bring griner home were separate for talks about ukraine. the deal came together about a week ago after the u.s. offered to swap convicted russian arms dealer viktor bout for both griner and paul whelan. whelan was detained in 2018, convicted on espionage charges and sentenced to 16 years in prison. the russians rejected that proposal. >> make this exchange, get one back and the only one they were willing to trade was brittney. >> reporter: president biden didn't signed the papers for bout until griner was on the ground in abu dhabi. in sight of a u.s. delegation. russian president vladimir putin saying the russian federal security service took charge of the swap adding there is a possibility for further negotiations.

raising hopes that paul whelan could be the next american freed. for now, griner's family, friends and teammates say they are just happy to have her home. >> we're incredibly gratified and thankful she is back. >> rose a joins us. i understand that griner spoke with her dad on the flight back to the u.s.? >> reporter: you know, she did. this is according to congresswoman sheila jackson. i got off the phone with her and she says she had a conversation with brittney griner's father about that midair conversation and she described it as a rousing conversation, a very happy conversation, a reunion by phone of sorts. now, she didn't get into any more details. the family is asking for privacy and she is respecting that and we are respecting it as well. she said that brittney griner is getting a medical evaluation in the building that you see behind me. that's the brooke army medical center here in san antonio.

and the congresswoman did add that the family and brittney griner they have not decided just how much treatment she is going to receive here in san antonio and what that means, anderson, is that she is a getting a medical evaluation and she has a choice. she can decide how much treatment she is going to get before she heads home. we don't know exactly when that will be. >> appreciate it, thank you. u.n. ambassador new mexico governor richardson. and also jason, held captive on trumped-up charges for 544 days in iran. governor, you heard from phil mattingly. t based on what you know, do those options feel like a place negotiations could restart? how do negotiations restart to try to get paul whelan home? >> well, you have a very good reporter. i can't confirm anything. i was a little bit on the

sidelines but aware of pushing both the russians, the administration as a catalyst, trying to find some common ground. look, i am confident are again, i'm going to say this, trevor reed about four months ago, a marine, we exchanged him with the russians. now brittney griner. i am not going to predict the time, but i think that paul whelan will get out. but it's going to cost. it's going to be another prisoner exchange. and i feel goauilty for paul whelan because we tried, my center, for four years, and always at the last minute something went wrong. but i commend the president. for the making the tough decision to bring brittney back. i commend him for trying very hard to get whelan back. there were a lot of combinations that were tried. but i'm confident. i'm positive. i think in the end the charge,

yes, it's wrongfully detained, bogus, but i think there will be a positive outcome and his family is the one that suffered the most and i really regret that. >> jason, what are your thoughts on paul whelan? are you optimistic he can come home tomorrow day soon? >> my heart breaks for the family. i have spoken with elizabeth many times. i am optimistic that he will come home and all americans broncfully detained will come home. unfortunately, it will require some kind of deal. and one thing that we don't talk about a lot, there is not a great deterrence policy to governments doing this. as americans we should get on the board with the idea that the u.s. government has to make concessions. otherwise, people will rot in prisons for a very long time. >> the national security advisor

of the previous administration said when he was at the white house, do we know how and why the calculus or did it change from the russian side? if russia made that offer in 2018, does that mean that offer was still on the table because the administration said that wasn't on the table. >> i agree with the biden administration. i don't think it was on the table because in the trump administration there was discussion of paul whelan and trevor reed and there were a bunch of russian combinations that were discussed. but it never happened. i'm not faulting the trump administration. it just never happened because at the time even though the relationship was a lot better, the ukraine war hadn't started, there was some kind of a tie log. but nothing moved. and while we have gotten brittney griner and trevor reed and, you know, we have made two

trips to russia, i never recall that discussion about viktor bout. >> jason, what was it like -- what is it like to be released from prison overseas when you have been held there for so long? >> well, you are not really certain that it's real until you are on that plane with friendly people. in my case it was represents from the swiss government. they are the protecting power for the u.s. and iran. but those last couple of days, the last 36 hours or so were some of the most treacherous of the entire year and a half i was in prison. once you get on the plane and get out of the air pspace of th country you are held hostage in, your shoulders loosen a little bit and that sense of relief comes in. but the road ahead takes many months and nobody's prepared for that when they first get out. >> just adjusting back to life and adjusting to not being inside a foreign prison?

>> exactly. the nightmares. the sleepless nights. you know, some of the medical conditions that some of us deal with. the deficiency of vitamins and minerals we got to cap up on and get back into playing shape, i guess, would be the term, and, you know, it's a hard road. >> jason and bill, appreciate it. next, new developments in the trump documents case. a judge refusing a request by the department of the justice to hole the former president in contempt. it was a time machine. (whispering) hello hello anybody there? ♪ sam! hey little brother! the time machine worked. make this december one to remember. [sfx: stomach gurgling]

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to take essentially drastic action against trump and the team, hold them in contempt for not fully complying with the subpoena for the classified documents because the doj isn't confident that they have all the documents. so instead what unfolded in this court hearing our team is learning is this jump didn't hold trump in contempt, at least in the yet, but pushed back multiple times. in particular, she was very bothered about why prosecutors were stuck on getting someone from trump's legal team to attest that all classified documents had been returned because she pointed out that trump's team appears to be working to make sure they are returned because as recently as last month they hired that team to search locations in new york, new jersey and florida, they ended up finding two classified documents and then they returned them investigators. this was a sticking point for the judge here. in the end, the judge didn't rule for contempt and urged doj and trump's team to keep working

through this together before any order is issued. so at this point it seems that doj and trump's team will have to coordinate and cooperate a bit more even though it's clear doj really believed before today's hearing that they were at an impasse. so we'll see what happens new. the judge for now is saying i'm staying out of it. >> has the department of justice reacted? >> no, no comment from doj. they have been quiet throughout this process. especially because this has all been under seal out of public view, this court hearing today was not open to the public. so the question at this point is does doj get a lot more forceful. the judge not issuing that contempt of court order. so maybe will doj have to move forward, you know, even drastically secure another search warrant for another one of trump's other properties or will this back and forth dialogue yield something despite the fact to this point it hasn't at least to doj's satisfaction

here. >> huhsean woo, cnn political analyst and "new york times" political correspondent maggie haberman. did the ruling surprise you? >> not really. it seems that doj really wanted the judge to kind of do the work for them here and the judge is like, huh-uh, it's up to folks. they clearly have the ability to force things as jessica was reporting. this is a situation, anderson, where they had already had probable cause for a search warrant. they still don't think they've gotten all the results and they have trump's own lawyers doing a search after the search warrants, which i find kind of bizarre, actually. it's one thing when you are negotiating upfront, yes, we have gotten the subpoena, we are going to do a due diligence search but this is aftern a search warrant and they found more documents at gsa facility. an odd predictability that doj finds itself in. >> how is the ruling viewed by the former president and those in his orbit, do we know? >> to be clear, anderson, we

don't know what happened in court because, as was noted, these are sealed proceedings. we know what we are being told and our understanding is the judge decide thd not to side wi doj today. we don't know what will happen in the future. the trump team is treating hthi as a win. they have had a few wins lately. i understand why. from their perspective they think that this punts things for another day. again the ball really is in doj's court at the moment because doj could go into his properties again. now, we have been told many weeks ago there was no probable cause to search bedminster or trump tower. does what happened with the finding at least two documents at this gsa storage facility give them probable cause? i don't know. i think that's something doj is going to weigh. >> legally speaking, what are the possible next moves for the doj? >> i think that they certainly

could look to see if they have probable cause for another search warrant. a normal situation where someone is suspected of having stolen something, you look at all their properties, not just one. on th whether moving to a charging situation. some ways they are building a record of their good faith of the various inconsistencies being said. it's so unusual that trump's team can not produce someone to be the custodian of records. it's quite symbolic. it really indicates that nobody has custody of the records. they don't know where they are. that has to be alarming for doj and puts a lot of pressure on them to safeguard these sensitive materials. >> if there is no lawyers willing to sign that the documents have been turned over for the trump side, why is that the doj's fault? shouldn't there be -- i mean, is there no penalty for the trump

team to not have somebody who can say categorically everything is returned? >> it's not the doj's fault. but i think what the penalty would be, frankly, is that they might decide to charge on what they have at this point. if the idea here is they want to primarily focus on safeguarding the documents, so you wouldn't want to charge too early because we have a few documents mishandled, we want to make sure we've got everything first, they seem like they have run up against a brick wall. >> sources telling cnn that the chief judge pressed the trump team and doj to work together to find a moochically agreeable resolution. it seems like there is a lot of animosity between the two parties. >> no question about that. there is no question about that, anderson. and we have similar reporting. the doj does not trust the trump team and it is understandable why. national archives have been asking for the documents close to a year. once boxes were returned in january there were dozens of

classified documents in there, a subpoena was issued, and ascertainment signed by a trump layer saying they returned all of the classified documents at mar-a-lago and doj during a search in august found more than 100 additional documents. there is a reason why doj does not feel it can trust the trump team. i think that's why they turned to the judge. i think the judge is loathe to make that kind of a decision without further discussion between the sides. but it has been very ugly between them for several weeks. >> yeah. appr appreciate. kyrsten sinema has left the democrat party days after a secured outright control of the senate.

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it may have felt that way to some democrats celebrating what they thought would be a 51-49 advantage. when it became apparent, the talk of earthquakes died down. that said, it is consequential. democrats were expected to primary sinema. now they can't. if they seek to run a candidate against her in the 2024 general election it would likely increase the chances for the republican in the race. the senator who many democrats see as a thorn in the party's side on a string of legislation has now become a thorn in the former party's side electorally. in addition to that, the matter of her political evolution and related allegation she? no fixed political convictions. quoting from a 2003 report over the iraq war against then-democratic senator joe lieberman, he is a shame to democrats, said kyrsten sinema, a social worker and organizer. the event. i don't know why he is running. he seems to get republicans to vote for him.

what kind of strategy is that? now it's her strategy as well. she spoke today with cnn's jake tapper and asked her about her political journey. >> green party activist. two democrat. two moderate to conservative to independent. are you getting more conservative or are you in search of a home? how do you see it? >> my values have never changed. i have always been the person that i am today. and, frankly, i am grateful to my parents and the life i have had that led me to hear. with all of the experiences, all the opportunities i have had to learn. one of the things i tell folks at home is that i really pride myself on my willingness to learn and grow and i know in this town people don't i can loo it if you ever grow or change. >> so call it grow or change or something else. perspective from david axlerod, cnn political commentator,

senior advisor to president obama. so, david, for democrats does this have any real impact on their slim majority in the senate? >> no, not really. i mean, i think that she made clear in her comments tshe intends to do what she has been doing. although she has vexed democrats because of her lack of support for some of key -- some of president biden's key initiatives, she has supported him 93% of the time. and she says she is not going to change her approach. so, no, i don't think this changes much. remember, there are two other people in the democratic camp who call themselves independents, bernie sanders and angus king. they are part of that 51-49 majority. i don't think that this is going to change much in the senate. she said she doesn't change. one thing that hasn't changed about kyrsten sinema is she has a tremendous facility for getting attention and she did very well with this announcement

which came just a few days after democrats were celebrating raphael warnock's victory in georgia and it seemed she was raining on her parade. it's more of a drizzle than a downpour. and the short term, it does roil arizona democrats in 224 when her seem comes up. >> it stymies efforts to have a primary against her that liberal democrats may want. >> i think she would have lost that primary. one thing that is a backdrop for all of this is senator sinema's numbers in the state are pretty close to disastrous. she's got a majority of -- she hassounfied republicans, democrats and independents who have a negative view of her with democrats more negative than republicans. there was already a challenger ruben gallego, a congressman who

was wgoing to challenge her in the primary. i think she was in danger of losing that primary. greg stanton, another congressman, former mayor of phoenix, was -- >> it's smart of her to do this? >> she had a lot of problems. sorry? >> it seems smart of her to do this? >> yeah. it may have been necessary for her to do it. yes, it may be smart a. i don't know that she can win a race as an independent. she can create a lot of mischief. the real question,around, does she run in 2024 or does she sort of cash out of this and choose a different life after her one term in the senate. i think that's very possible. >> and sinema said she'd approach chuck schumer about keeping her committee assignments and he agreed. she refused to caucus with the democrats. do you think schumer would allow her to keep her committee assignments if she wasn't going

to? >> she also said she wouldn't caucus with the republicans. for shum the most important votes are for majority leader and organization of committees. i think he is going to have the same relationship he had with her, which is strained, but also she has been, as i said, you know, a pretty strong supporter of most of the initiatives of the president. certainly on appointments, which is very important in the senate. i think it will continue that way. i don't think this is a big boon for republicans right now. i think that things will continue as they have, which is that -- which is that kyrsten sinema will be kind of a pain for the leadership and the white house incroutable, hard to deal with, but mostly in their camp. >> thanks. coming up, on the heels of the reporting that leading proponent of qanon net with the former president, an harris gained access to the president's

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mar-a-lago residents saw a controversial care gain personal access this week. this time liz crokin, a prominent qanon conspiracy spreader when posed with him, got a thumbs up from him. before thanksgiving the former president aid the his private club with kanye west who made a slew of antisemitic statements as well as white supreme cyst nick fuentes. who gets cleared for entry and who is granted close access to trump. someone else spotted at mar-a-lago multiple times last year, alleged fake heiress who claimed to be from the rothschild family under investigation by the fbi. randi kaye has new developments tonight. >> she very clearly introduced her as anna rothschild and she kind of maintained that she was part of the family. >> reporter: he is talking about this woman who he thought was anna rothschild. an investment banker and guest at mar-a-lago says he met her at the club last year just before

mother's day. she passed herself off as a men of the rothschild family's banking dynasty and called is a near perfect ruse. >> she talked about growing up in monte carlo, her grandparents house in west palm beach, she talked about family investments in the dominican republic and the bahamas. >> reporter: the "pittsburgh post-gazette" were first to report her caper at mar-a-lago. which former president trump calls home. they say she visited there at least five times last year. and new reporting by the gazette and occrp revealed possible ties to a russian gang enterprise with a history of money-laundering. this is video they obtained of her driving up to the mar-a-lago club's front doors. >> she is wearing designer clothes. she has got the cold rolex watches. she is wearing, you know, bracelets. >> reporter: the post gazette reported that numerous records

turned over to the fbi as part of the investigation. these are just some of the fake i.d.s those media outlets say the 33-year-old woman was allegedly using. two fake passports, one from the u.s. and one from canada. and a florida driver's license that uses the home address of an $18 million mansion in miami beach where the "pittsburgh post-gazette" says she has never lived. look closely. the name on all of them is anna du rothschild. that rom is not anna du roth child. >> she is driving a brand-new mercedes g wagon, $170,000. and she has transformed herself into anna de rothschild. >> we used her real identity to track down her lawyer. she declined our go for an on-camera interview. through her lawyer told us she came to the mar-a-lago club wunts on may 1, 2021, when asked

if she claimed to be a rothschild she said she had never used that name inside mar-a-lago and never held herself out as that. >> that is, you know, categorically false. i can say that definitively. she presented herself as a rothschild. in fact, she said she was going to her grandparents' house the evening before we played golf to pick up her golf clubs. >> reporter: those golf clubs were used to play at nearby trump international golf course the day after john says he met her at mar-a-lago. this picture obtained bit the pitt"pittsburgh post-gazette" s her posing for photos with donald trump and senator lindsey graham who were at the course holding a fundraiser for the midterm elections. >> her interaction with trump, you know, was five seconds at most. she was very good at acting like she had been in those types of situations before. so she was not starstruck. >> reporter: in this video obtained from the post za zel

you hear a guest all camera joking she could afford to pay $1 million for a photo with trump. >> anna rothschild, you can afford $1 million for a picture. >> reporter: she made no attempt to correct him. her lawyer told us she was in a location where people thought she had money and no one would be quick to correct them. another video shared with us by the pittsburgh post sfwla zet shows her at the golf club where she sat feet away from trump at the podium. after that the woman posing as anna de rothschild went out for dinner with trump supporters. that's her in the back standing by don jr.'s fiance kimberly guilfoyle. the man to the left is john le eff who said he met the woman at the mar-a-lago pool. and the woman's lawyer confirms she attended a fundraiser for

eric greitens. it was held in a palm beach mansion owned by trump. we reached out to trump, eric greitens and lindsey graham for comment. they didn't respond. the fbi declined to comment. the woman's visit to mar-a-lago raises all kinds of questions about security given the club is also the former president's home where classified documents were discovered in his possession back in august. >> i was surprised how little there is in terms of real bona fide checking of who comes in and out of mar-a-lago. mr. trump is no longer the president, but he is a man who is running for president and he has all top leaders from all walks of life. >> reporter: former secret service agent told me security at mar-a-lago likely didn't do a background check on the woman and that there are different security levels for the mar-a-lago club versus the former president's residence. the u.s. secret service referred us back to mar-a-lago. so who is the real anna de

rothschild? how did she get past security and what was she doing at mar-a-lago? >> if she is not the woman she says she was, what were you able to learn about her? >> she was born in a small town in ukraine, poor. she came here with her family, immigrant family, first generation. her father is a truck driver in suburban chicago. her mother cleaned doctors' offices. >> reporter: the woman's lawyer tried to set the record straight. he told me the only time his client went through the security get at mar-a-lago was on may 1 last year and she didn't show any i.d. on may 2 he confirms she was at the beach hotel across the street and on may 9 at the fundraiser for governor greitens. he told me she is not a spy. he painted his client as an abused woman being set up by a man she filed a restraining order against. her lawyer said the past ports with her photo aren't real, they are pdfs and someone created

them with her picture on them. the woman's lawyer says she is cooperating with the fbi but would not comment on the investigation. >> so what did they investigate? where does the investigation stand now? >> anderson, the fbi is still apparently investigating the "pittsburgh post-gazette" reporter spoke with five people who told him that they were interviewed by the fbi. i reached out to secret service. they didn't have much to say. but they had issued a statement saying in part they provide the highest levels of personal safety and security. they noted in that statement that the mar-a-lago club is separate from its a private club separate from trump's residence and direct outside us to the organizers at the club to ask about access in terms of who gets in to that club. but no question, anderson, security is a challenge there given that it's a private club and trump's residence as well. if you look at this woman, she went there, breezed past

security, no questions asked, she didn't show an i.d. according to her lawyer and that raises a lot of questions, of course, because you know at this time there were those classified documents in trump's possession at mar-a-lago in his personal residence. so certainly a lot of people wondering who gets in and who gets access and it's a real concern. >> thank you. a day after iran announced an execution connected to protests there, a new message to protesters about what may come next. details ahead. a dental tool is round for a reason.

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iran today signalled more executions are on the way just one day after state media reported executions of someone related to mass demonstrations. the protester was mohsen shekari. the "new york times" quotes

the protester met mr. shekari in prison and said he, quote, loved life, was working for freedom, and had been working at a cafe in iran when he joined the protests. iranian authorities say he was convicted for, quote, waging war against god. attacking a member of the paramilitary force in tehran. he was hanged yesterday morning. amnesty international, november, iranian authorities are seeking death penalty for at least 21 people in connection with the protests. there is reaction in iran and around the world. melissa bell has details. some of what you'll see is disturbing to watch. [ screaming ] >> reporter: the reaction to the news that mohsen shekari had been hanged, the howl of the relative as he became the first protester to be executed in iran in the three months of demonstrations. just 75 days later, he was executed.

the first protester hanged, likely not the last. tens more face death sentences. >> why the iranian authorities choose him as the first victim? i think it has got to do with the fact that we didn't know so much about him, that his name wasn't so known. >> reporter: it was the deaths in the custody of the morality police of 22-year-old mahsa amini that set off the wave of discontent that has only widened and deepened. posing the greatest challenge to iran's regime since the 1979 islamic revolution, their strict islamic interpretation to power. >> and mahsa was a young girl, just normal young girl, but also a kurdish girl. so, through so many aspects, it touched iranians being treated

as second class citizens. >> reporter: across iran this week, a strike called by the protesters. and on wednesday, known as student day in iran, protests at several universities. inside tehran university, iran's president blamed the united states for what he described as riots. outside, the protesters' chants echoed in the grounds. tehran's response to the popular anger has been predictably violent. already, human rights say 458 protesters have died. many more now face the death penalty. >> death penalty is the strongest instrument of fear. it's more than shooting people on the streets. >> reporter: death to the dictator, chanted protesters on thursday night. for now, at least, unbowed by tehran's campaign of fear. melissa bell, cnn, paris. >> thanks melissa bell, for filing that report. we'll continue to follow the

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