relations with buy an iranian-american author and journalist. and later the senate returns at 2 p.m. eastern for general speeches. no roll call votes are expected today. >> also today the heritage foundation hosts current and former deputy assistant defense secretaries from the obama and george w. bush administrations to talk about guantanamo bay prison in cuba and its detainee policy. president obama recently renewed his push to close the facility which he's described as lingering problem that will worsen if it remains open. his comments came amid a growing hunger strike at guantanamo that's spread in recent weeks to include about 100 of its 166 inmates. you can watch the discussion live over on c-span or listen to it on c-span radio at noon eastern. >> she's the first first lady to earn a college degree, and during the civil war soldiers serving under her husband called her the mother of the regiment. opposing slavery, she influences her husband to switch from the whig party to the anti-slavery republican party. and she hosts the fist annual w

as an example, we recently arrested an individual, an iranian-american, who had, according to the indictment, plotted to utilize an individual association with the mexican keitel to assassinate the saudi ambassador in washington, d.c. that quite obviously implicates somewhat more than a criminal case. consequently, the impact on international relations -- it is implicated in terms of what we do, and consequently, there is an exchange and understanding of what is going to happen, although the justice department and ourselves will do what we believe is best, regardless of that. nonetheless, there has to be a dialogue on the implications and impact of a case such as that. the relationship has evolved -- evolved over time. it goes without saying that the president and others should not, have not interfered with investigations that have to be handled independently. so that stricture is still there and adhered to, but on the other hand, because of the, again, globalization, the seeping across or leaking across of information and impact of cases, there has to be a different dialogue now than there

vali nasr is an iranian american public will commentary, scholar of contemporary islam in the middle east. he has breached president, congress, many influential and non-influential people. he was born in tehran in 1960 and his family came to the united states having left iran after the revolution. he has a bachelors from tufts university, a masters degree from a fletcher school of law and diplomacy at tufts and earned his ph.d in political science from mit. 100 i will go through your long list of accomplishments. they are special but i would especially to attention to a great part of your book which is the time you spend working under richard holbrooke in 2009-2011. as part of the special office, special advisor on pakistan and afghanistan. now special advisor to the secretary of state. there are always other offices one discovers. part of the problem is you lay out in your book which i found fascinating, other work you've done, she revival -- how conflicts were in islam, forces of fortune, the rise of the new middle class and what it will mean for our world, and you detail certain g

and the book "the dispensable nation: american foreign policy in retreat," which i have here, an iranian-american, political comem tear #* at a -- common at a timer, briefed congress, and many people, of he was born in 1960, and his family came to the united states having left iran after the revolution. he has a bachelor's, a master's degree from the fletcher school of law and diplomacy and urned a ph.d. in political science from mitt. well done. i won't go through the long lists of accomplishments, they are special, but i especially draw attention, a great part of the book, which is the time you spent working under richard holbrooke, 2009-2011, as part of the special office, special adviser on pakistan and afghanistan. now, special adviser to the secretary of state. there always are other offices one discovers that do the same thing you do, and that's part of the problem as you lay out in the book which is fascinating. other works that you've done, sheer revival, i used in courses i've done, how conflicts in islam shape the future, forces of forchip, the rise of the new middle class and what it

i worked with a wonderful shaft who is an iranian-american, trained in berkeley. she would come to my house every couple of sundays and we would make a big meal together. my wife and son would get involved, we would invite people over. i learned wonderful lessons from her. every day she had a theme. today we will learn about and ossification. this is basically, fats and waters in a stable solution, like with eggs. a salad dressing is an emulcification, basically. in the presence of heat, amino acids and shivers turns into these wonderful flavor compounds. makes the food much more flavorful, elusive. one of the interesting, denominators of all cooking is you take these very straightforward flavors and to complicate them. you make a food tastes like other things. maybe you give it the aroma of flowers, bacon. it is sort of like poetic language. you in fact everyday language into something more heightened and elusive. more metaphorical. you do that with cooking, too. so we looked at that. and these were the most practical skills i learned, the ones i use every day. i

/iran relations from an iranian-american author and journalist. >> the house returns for a brief proforma session today. legislative business resumes tuesday at 2 p.m. eastern. on the agenda this week, legislation to repeal the 2010 health care law and a bill requiring the securities and exchange commission conduct a

and iran by an iranian american author and journalist.and let him live coverage of the senate when it returns at 2 p.m. eastern for morning business. no roll call votes are expected. >> also today, president obama's nominee to the white house deputy budget director testifies at his confirmation in on capitol hill. he will appear before the senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee. a longtime economic adviser in the obama administration, he is currently the deputy director of the white house national economic council. you can watch his hearing live at 3 p.m. eastern over on c-span. >> a brand-new startup company with one mission. and that's to -- what we have here is our first generation product and especially it is very summer to a breathalyzer. so in order to start the vehicle docked and locked in a system in order to start the car. >> what we have here is our campaign to draw education inagt taxing and driver. we're trying to bring the message home in a very safe environment about a difficult and dangerous it is to te

cbn news has been following the story of saeed abedini, the iranian american pastor serving an eight-yearentence for his christian faith. he is being held in the evan prison, where he is suffering physical beatings and is denied medical care. >> wendy: mariam and her roommate spent seven months there. recently they shared their experience and rare inside look at what it is like inside that infamous prison. their story begins with a knock on their door. take us back to march 2009, when your doorbell rang. what happened? >> i looked through to the people, and i saw three guards. my mind was in shock. i just opened the door, and they entered our apartment. they ransacked everywhere, and they took both of us, with all of our belongings, like bibles, books, jesus movies, and everything that they had discovered in our apartment, and they transferred us to the security police. >> for our first day, and the first week was so difficult for both of us because we were so scared. and they threaten us to physical torture. they told us we will beat you until you vomit blood. >> they sent both of us to

our military repeatedly said publicly iranians were supplying weapons and an american armored vehiclesand tanks and killing americans in the course that enabled or ran not only to kill americans increase their influence within iraq, which now is probably greater than ours. it was not a good strategy to just takeo a chance because that enables iran to walk away from that engagement with the united states. victorious we left. they are there. whenever struck back and i look very strong both domestically and within iran as well. now they do the same thing in afghanistan and we let them do it. although this is is damaging our effort ultimately to convince them that we are credibly going to prevent them from having a nuclear weapon. i don't see how they could be convinced that we honestly would follow through and prevent them given the history of weakness. that's why he laid it out in 30 years of weakness because 30 years of terror, 30 years of weakness you've got to overcome with deeds, not words. a secretary shows that he got two-point.and pull trigger. >> host: what should be our response

an examination of u.s. relations with iran. iranian american author and journalist looks at the history between the two nations and the break of diplomatic relations more than 30 years ago and discusses u.s. support for the shaw, the 1979 revolution and hostage crisis, iran's nuclear program and the cultural misunderstanding between the u.s. and iran. he is a contributing writer for "time," "salon" and the new yorker. it was hosted by williams college in williams town, massachusetts. it's an hour and 25 minutes. > thank you very much. this mike, i guess. that introduction was lovely but i have to say i'm neither a professor nor an expert of any kind on anything, let alone iran. there are actually no iranian experts, in case you were wondering, because there's no such thing as expertise on iran. iran is just way, way too unpredictable and difficult for anybody to claim they're an expert, that they know what iran is, what iran is going to do, whether they're going to build a bomb, whether they're going to build a bomb or not build a bomb, whether

an annual fee, ever. go to citi.com/simplicity to apply. >>> an american hostage that's been held in iran for nearly two years as, for the first time, been allowed to communicate with his family in michigan. iranianties imprisoned the 29-year-old former marine over accusations that he was an american spy. sara hekmadi is the sister, andish malla is director at the wood row wilson center. i was saying this is a sat story that we hope has a happy ending. sara, let's talk about your brother and what if any bright light is there? >> well, we want to remain hopeful. for anybody that nose amir, he's very family oriented. he had med my grandmother when she visited from iran. she came to the u.s. during his childhood. he felt this was an opportunity to go and see her. he went for two weeks, and he went through all the appropriate channels here in washington, d.c. to obtain permission to go. and so during his two-week stay, he was with family. he was getting to know everybody. he was born and raised here, had never been to iran, so this was his first trip. then after two weeks, he disappeared. >> some of the details of his confinement are frightening. there's no other word. 16 months, correct me if i'm wr

iranian military is targeting u.s. energy infrastructure that is an attack on the american economy and population. we need to respond i'm not suggesting in this instance but we cannot hand tire so sore hamstring ourselves that we only respond to cyber attacks if the iranians persist we must respond with the military option. dennis: metaphorical missiles may turn into real missiles at some point*. thank you for being with us. don't forget to watch our special report times monday may 27 at 1:00 p.m. at 4:00 p.m.. another vote on the keystone pipeline it was approved by a still no approval from the white house. that transcanada invested five years and billions of dollars for nothing? we will talk to the ceo of the exact how far will the hon go to take down steve steve, when? more money coming up. ♪ welcome to the new buffalo... whe new york state is insting one billion dollars attract and grow business. where companies like geico are investing in technology & financ welcome to the state where cutting taxes for business... is our business. welcome to the new buffalo. welcome to the new buffalo. welcome

members of the american, iranian and ssian wrestling teams spoke in new york. athletes were invited to join an international event. it's part of the campaigat was launched after the ioc's annt >> russia, the united states and iran make up -- are the three best wrestling nations in the world. there's a lot of commonalties around that. and our friendship goes pretty deep through wrestling. certainly, i think all of us believe that that sport is the foundation for good things to happen. >> an iranian national coach says wrestling is woven into culture and history and has been part of the modern olympics for more than 100 years. wrestlers from u.s. and iran will compete ian w yo's gnd ctraldnesday at station. >>> we're keeping an eye on a storm in the bay of bengal. keeping an eye on it heading towards bangladesh. >> that's right. it's located central of this bay and still affect ing ting the i. 's bn affecting the eastern location and the areas with the refugees, the area we're really concerned of. right now, packing winds of 75 kilometers per hour. that's the sustained winds. gus of5. sotimeit c

for -- and it's not a humanitarian argument, it's an argument for national self-interest, american national self-interest. this is a way to hurt the iranians. >> rose: these are some of the things that you say the administration is fearing. hard to actually destroy assad's chemical arsenal. you don't know what happens the day after assad goes if he goes. you don't know whether u.s. intervention would accomplish anything significant. you know that there may be the risk of another afghanistan. you know there's a risk of mission creep at least. you know that weapons would eventually make their way to islamist groups and you know that there is possibly a vacuum post-assad and therefore you have chaos and all bets are off. >> uh-huh. >> that's -- man. >> of course, most of those things may happen whether or not we intervene. >> rose: that's john mccain, that's what he's saying. >> i agree with the argument that assad's fall would be a significant blow against tehran and might help facility a nuclear deal. i think the best way to achieve that is to make sure the opposition has the weapons they need rather than direct american intervention. >> ro

kid on a motorcycle if necessary so mccain wants an all out war israel would like all out war but i think the russians and the iranians and the americans and the eventually be e.u. and the u.n. i looking at this different way and you know if you come to syria you'll see it's a little more complex and those who say they understand it all i think they don't i think there's plenty of confusion so i thought i'd bet on the only bright spot i see are the iranians the americans and the the russians pushing with arab or he may be the others are peace program and plan and remember ball on the foreign minister said that the syrians will show up when they don't come to the table let out of their short can let john mccain come there all calm that's better than what's going on now it's got to be preceded. by a cease fire so what's wrong with that martin what's wrong with that. franklin well i wonder frankly do you believe that. any peace can come with assad remaining in power franklin you want to answer the question tell the election yeah tell the election i think it can and i'm not convinced pointedly then he wants to say we are on a free and open

an american tradition. that is right. get out your mint julips and live from a soggy churchill downs. >> iranian hostage crisis, in their owntwo survivors join us with an inside look at the real argo. >> the big question is, what is outside the door? we're not sure if we are going sto see people running in at us or what. >> it was the moment you hold your breath and just hope. [ female announcer ] what makes you walk a little taller? it begins with your skin. venus & olay -- gently exfoliates with 5 blades. plus olay moisture bars help renew goddess skin. only fromenus & olay. i had[ designer ]eeling enough of just covering upin. my moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. i decided enough is enough. ♪ [ spa lady ] i started enbrel. it's clinically proven to provide clearer skin. [ rv guy ] enbrel may not work for everyone -- and may not clear you completely, but for many, it gets skin clearer fast, within 2 months, and keeps it clearer through 6 months. [ male announcer ] enbrel may lower your ability to fight infections. serious, sometimes fatal events, including infections, tuberculosis, lymphoma, other cancers, nervous syst

iranian regime as far as human rights goes. it's always been effective. the regime has always backed down on particular political prisoners or freedoms once they see outside pressure. the idea that there is an americanboogie man behind demand, behind aspirations for democracy is something the regime has used time and again against his people. so whether or not there's any american backing for the aspirations of the iranian people for democracy, the reigning regime has constantly accused human rights act to this, human rights defenders, journalists, intellectual artist coming recessions, ordinary people of being american spies. so you're if you do, if you don't. so you better do it. do the right thing. be strategic about your comments. i'm talking about the white house. in meetings with democracy for human rights labor state department, they talk about under the bush administration people working right now on the state department talk about under the bush administration it was the white house making the statement in the white house that had press release and the fact he needs to be released. can she was released because of that pressure. now we have this backing off. if we stay silent, it will be bet

iranian hostage crisis. posted by the project of middle east democracy, this is an hour. >> i am going to give them more americans interview by necty

it is an intrinsic view, many famous american authors that track the iranians progress. madam, according to your statement, but you are talking to the leader of the free world, having genuine democracy in iran, looking at the middle east, who are those friends? these are the friends and leaders of the free world by supporting and continuing to support this movement. i question is what genuine opposition should be dependent with the united states the money from the cia. you know, real organizations and things like that. or should it be on our own feet? you had mentioned twice in her speech about the democratic election in iran. in the first scenario, if someone comes and says, okay, we are okay with it, this has become a democratic election board the election was a democratic election, because they said that first of all, the candidates first of all should be men. right? at least 50% of the people are women and they don't have rights because of this. secondly, it should be shia law. fourth, it should be our sharia. fourth, it should be supported by the guardian and the de

iranian revolutionaries storming the embassy, holding americans hostage. we closed our embassy in tehran after that, we have not had anmbassy in iran since 1980. here's michele bachmann speaking in 2011. >> you may have heard that there's a break-in at the british embassy and the british had to pull their people out. that's exactly what i would do. we wouldn't have an american embassy in iran. >> if i were president, she would close the u.s. embassy in iran that hasn't been there since the 1970s. that's a very bold move. here's the thing, as amazing as michele bachmann is, and she is amazing, as amazing as she is to watch in american politics, she is also on the intelligence committee in congress, the intelligence committee whose job it is to oversee the cia and military intelligence program and a bunch of other parts of our government that handle very sensitive intelligence data. it is part of michele bachmann's job in congress as assigned by the republican leadership in congress, to oversee those very sensitive parts of our government. it is easy to not just dismiss michele bachmann, but to enjoy michele bachmann as

an attack on the american economy and population. we need to respond i'm not suggesting in this instance but we cannot hand tire so sore hamstri ourselves that we only respond to cyber attacks if the iranians persist we must respond with the military option. dennis: taphorical missiles may turn into real missiles at some point*. thank you for being with us. don't forget to watch our special report times monday may 27 at 1:00 p.m. at 4:00 p.m.. another vote on the keystone pipeline it was approved by a still no approval from the white house. that transcanada invested five years and billions of dollarfor nothing? we will talk to the ceo of the exact how far will the hon go to take down steve steve, when? more money coming up. ♪ dennis: what does transcanada have to show for the $2 billion over five years and has been on the early stag of the keystone pipeline? some half built pipe bied in red tape it passed the house on wednesday but obama seems to do everything he can to avoid letting them before including not doing anything at all. transcada ceo joinsus now i ll get to the pipeline but first, start with the cyber threat we were talking about. these are reports that hackers has been getting

ayatollah khamenei was an exile for most of the iranian revolution and communicated with his supporters by rand through the state-of-the-art telephone switching system installed by the americans for the shah. he could call up anybody in iran and it was important for the iranian revolution. with the help of satellite of course. satellite communication for very important. there were a lot of different levels in which the technology was influenced all this. pcs were not yet there but i think they're very much a part of it. the technological aspect really deserve to be gone to a lot more able -- deeply than i was able. >> host: tell me, if you were to follow up the book would you jump right in with 1980 or where's your next home and? does it go to 1979 and 1989? is that going to be the next part? >> guest: that's a great question. i think i'm going to work on something totally different. >> host: absolutely. it's really interesting in terms of the response you've gotten so far, what if you made up what the critics of had to say? >> guest: i'm very happy. i feel a lot of people got the bug. when you're writing this book you are sitting in a little room all alone and i'm wondering

american government. if i write that n.s.a. is reading iranian code, then iran can fairly easily switch codes, switch machines and take away that windfall of intelligence. that's an important secret needs to be preserved. i recognize that if we have an agent who has infiltrated al qaeda, it happened in yemen. if we identify that person when he's in an al qaeda camp there, he's dead. he's a dead man. we lose that source and certainly has a human matter you would not want to do that. there are secrets that deserve to be preserved. the other problem, the problem with that is that bureaucrats love secrecy especially in the national security realm. if econtrol a certain amount of information and it's secret from everybody else, that enhances my power. if i screw up and i can keep that secret, that preserves my reputation, my career. there's always huge sort of urge for secrecy in the government. sometimes often not justified. i think you can fairly ask why is it so secret that we -- why is still many of the details classified about what we did to al qaeda prisoners these secret cia jails in 2002, 2003 and 2004. years passed and we know a great deal about this stuff. y

an iphone for the very first time. the u.s. treasury department announced today that the federal government has eased restrictions on sales of american made cell phones and other devices to iraniansfforts to silence its people. those restrictions have been in place since 1992. smoke bombs and pepper spray as cops battle protesters in one of the world's largest cities. our top story as we go around the world in 80 seconds. turkey. happened last night at a park in istanbul. the government is reportedly demolishing it to make way for a shopping mall. protest iters have been camping out there for three days, saying they want to protect the city's last remaining green space. state media reports tear gas and set fire to some tents to remove demonstrators. the prime minister vowed to go ahead with construction. spain. police say they recovered three pieces of stolen art. including two picassos in the southern city. the artwork went missing from a gallery in 2010. authorities say they found the drawings after arresting a suspect last month in. china, nearly 1-year-old sea turtle getting surgery in the northwest. aquarium workers say it lost its appetite. they rushed it to nearby hospital

an outstanding president is whether the iranians will be involved. to bring in the regional powers of the various opposition groups. what i am watching is negotiations back-and-forth between the americans and russians. the news of the system being sent to russia. a lot of analysts think they want this news. it is a way to say where supporters of the regime. maybe we will not send these in there, but what we get back? do you agree with that? even many critics or enemies of the regime believe they may be hold a third of the country's support because his own clan, christians and minorities are very nervous about the government coming to power. i think you will see more of this, this kind of negotiations or haggling with the missile system. and this is something discussed between washington and moscow. the british prime ministers in washington just came from moscow last week. i think they will discuss a bit more about rush show and what they will or will not do. it will be interesting to see if the united states invites them into the conference. i think they are seen as the biggest benefactor of the regime. can you create a diplomatic path without bringing in the iranians? the interesting

iranians are not invested at all in the american economy. and so in some ways they're more dangerous, they have only upside on this, no downside. >> david sanger, from "the new york times," an much for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. great to be with you. >>> a major bridge collapses. we're going to hear from the man who took these exclusive pictures. stand by. >>> and it looks like "star trek," but these people work at a nuclear plant that has some safety problems.io how old is the oldest person you've known? we gave people a sticker and had them show us. we learned a lot of us have known someone who's lived well into their 90s. and that's a great thing. but even though we're living longer, one thing that hasn't changed much is the official retirement age. ♪ the question is how do you make sure you have the money you need to enjoy all of these years. ♪ as part of a heart healthy diet. that's true. ...but you still have to go to the gym. ♪ the one and only, cheerios ...but you still have to go to the gym. and didn't know where to start. used a contractor before at angie's list, you'll find reviews on everything from home repair to healthcare written by people just like you.

an outstanding president is whether the iranians will be involved. to bring in the regional powers of the various opposition groups. what i am watching is negotiations back-and-forth between the americans and russians. the news of the system being sent to russia. a lot of analysts think they want this news. it is a way to say where supporters of the regime. maybe we will not send these in there, but what we get back? do you agree with that? even many critics or enemies of the regime believe they may be hold a third of the country's support because his own clan, christians and minorities are very nervous about the government coming to power. i think you will see more of this, this kind of negotiations or haggling with the missile system. and this is something discussed between washington and moscow. the british prime ministers in washington just came from moscow last week. i think they will discuss a bit more about rush show and what they will or will not do. it will be interesting to see if the united states invites them into the conference. i think they are seen as the biggest benefactor of the regime. can you create a diplomatic path without bringing in the iranians? the interesting

an outstanding president is whether the iranians will be involved. to bring in the regional powers of the various opposition groups. what i am watching is negotiations back-and-forth between the americans russians. the news of the system being sent to russia. a lot of analysts think they want this news. it is a way to say where supporters of the regime. maybe we will not send these in there, but what we get back? do you agree with that? even many critics or enemies of the regime believe they may be hold a third of the country's support because his own clan, christians and minorities are very nervous about the government coming to power. i think you will see more of this, this kind of negotiations or haggling with the missile system. and this is something discussed between washington and moscow. the british prime ministers in washington just came from moscow last week. i think they will discuss a bit more about rush show and what they will or will not do. it will be interesting to see if the united states invites them into the conference. i think they are seen as the biggest benefactor of the regime. can you create a diplomatic path without bringing in the iranians? the interesting thin

there is an american pastor in iran serving eight years in prison because he is a christian and practices christianity. just yesterday the iranian government disqualified two presidential candidates. it is a sham election that's coming up in the coming months here. and so, as one state department official put it to the foreign relations committee, the green movement in iran today is virtually nonexistent. that's because of instead of denigrating freedom fighters in iran who suffered from inaction and lack of support, we need to be doing everything possible in the weeks to come to speak frankly about the lack of fundamental freedoms in iran and reject the notion that this regime is a credible negotiating partner. we need to make clear a crackdown against the iranian people similar to the one that occurred in june of 2009 after a fraudulent presidential election will have consequences this time. we can't be everywhere. america can't be everywhere and do everything, but can't outsource solutions to our problems. israel faces unprecedent security environment. i saw this firsthand during my visit to the middle east in february. what

an american bogeyman behind demand, behind aspirations for democracy is actually something that the regime has used time and again against its people. so whether or not there's any american backing for the aspirations of the iranianople for democracy, the united states -- the iranian regime has constantly accused human rights act visits -- activists, human rights defenders, journalists, intellectuals, artists, musicians, ordinary people of being american spies. .. >> under the bush administration people working right now in the state department talk about how under the bush administration it was the white house making those mistakes and it was the white house that a press release and the fact he needs to be released. he was released because of that pressure. but now we have this sort of backing off if we stay silent, it'll be better. if we stay silent, somehow things will go in the right way. it doesn't happen that way. time and again with other countries we've seen the same thing. dictators don't like it when leaders of free countries called about what they're doing. what's more, much more important is that i'm not saying this, ma the people from inside our singer. their primary slogan was a barack hussein obama

goodwill tour of the united states and returned home without competing against an american team in los angeles. the iranian team was if the u.s. as part of an effort to keep the sport in the olympics. usa wrestling, sports u.s. governing body said in a statement on friday that iranian teams schedule had changed. an iranian representative confirmed to nhk that team members departed for iran on friday night, saying the decision was made because of a team matter. on wednesday, iranian wrestlers took part in an exhibition match in new york. is wrestlers of the two countries were to face each other again in a friendly match on sunday in los angeles, the city with the largest iranian community in the u.s. conservative iranian media say the match may have been canceled as exiled iranians critical of the islamic system could converge on the event site. >>> thousands of people have gathered in a town outside of tokyo to take part in an event honoring one of the greatest leaders in japanese history. tokugawa which ruled japan for more than 250 years. he's enshrined in a unesco world heritage site. about 1, 200 peopl