den nye asgari given u.s. asylum?ive you another chance to respond to marine harf at the state department. >> i think people are going to have to read "the good spy" and judge it themselves. the book comes with a thousand footnotes. if the cia's position today is that they don't know where where asgari is, they ought to know. he's responsible for killing eight cia officers. they didn't deny that he had defected in 2007 in the spring of 2007 their position was, no comment. we're not going to comment about this high-level general that had defected. now that we've pieced together with good detective work that this iranian general was responsible and in a position to have done these things in lebanon during the 1983 bombings, suddenly they don't know where he is or who is he. this isn't believable. >> very quickly, bob baer, a final thought, what do you believe? >> he's somewhere. he's either here or he's in israel. one of the two. he was a key player. no one is going to let him go. i would find it difficult to believe th

we can categorically state that the assertion that cia arranged for the defection of ali reza asgaris false. that is from the cia. >> they're not denying other u.s. agencies, intelligence agencies had a hand in the defection. he went through turkey apparently. that's where he defected, and later brought to the united states. are they saying that the fbi, the other intelligence agencies had no role in bringing this guy to the united states? or are they just saying the cia? >> they're saying the cia had nothing to do with it. i pressed them on if other agencies have done this. i haven't gotten an answer yet. i'm working with them throughout the day to get some of these answers to these questions. they're saying right now that they had no role in this. >> we'll speak to the author of this book. we'll speak to others, including a lawyer representing families later in "the situation room." so we'll go in-depth on this story later today. lots of families potentially going to be very, very upset. >> right. >> about this. brian, thanks very much. >>> that's it for me. see you at 5:00 p.m. in