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has been going on is raising eyebrows, including the execution of all the man in one village in eastern iranbecause of their involvement in alleged drug trafficking. host: this disappointed a lot of people who were hoping to see an improvement in iran's human rights record, especially following the deal that tehran reached. report: absolutely. it had been widely assumed that once president romani got that nuclear deal into place, he would be able to switch his focus to human rights. it hasn't really happened. part of the reason might be a little bit of a blowback coming from the hardliners at the moment. is president, that does not make him the most powerful man in the country. the supreme leader is the number one political figure in the establishment, and he is surrounded by purists will stop -- by purists. host: a pakistani helicopter has crash landed in afghanistan, and the passenger and crew on board has been taken by the tally ban. -- has been held hostage by the taliban. it fell in a mountainous tribal area. njabelongs to the pu government. has accused the heads of one of the biggest c

guest: iran has tested ballistic of thes in contravention u.n. ty council resolution banning such testing. the u.s. has placed sanctions against iran for those missiles. it is crucial to remember that despite the nuclear agreement, a lot of u.s. sanctions remain against iran, going back to 1979-1980, so the u.s. is sanctioning iran still for supporting terrorism, abusing human rights in iran, for its regional activities, so the claim that the u.s. gave iran money is not quite true. were frozen because of the nuclear agreement and they were released, but a lot of sanctions remain against iran and the united states still continues to push back against iran's activities in the region and that home, as well. host: we welcome listeners on c-span radio. is ali -- our guest is ali nader. our next guest on the republican line. good morning. caller: good morning to you all. i want to thank you for this opportunity. is, first,question should iran pay its debts? -- $400 million was their money, but shouldn't they pay their debt out of that? has actually been

he vanished in iran in march of 2007. and in january of this year, the white house said not sure where levinson is. >> we have reason to believe that he no longer is in iran. and that is -- that's why we continue to press for information about his whereabouts. and we'll continue to do that and we've secured a commitment from the iranians to use the channel that has now been opened to secure the release of those individuals that we know were being held by iran unjustly, to try to gather information about mr. levinson's possible whereabouts. >> dan wlech slevinson is on th record. your family has written another letter to iran today. what are you seeking? >> we're trying to get my dad home. it's been almost 9 1/2 years and we've been on this show many times now and we're trying to make sure that the obama administration and iranian government will be working together to make sure he's brought home. because we do believe the iranian government arrested him and they have been holding him and are responsible for him. so they h

do you see any change in iran, how it's acting result of this iran deal? >> well, first of all, bret, the day began with a complete falsehood being tweeted out by the trump campaign. donald trump tried to suggest that hillary clinton was involved in this $400 million payment to iran. of course, independent fact checkers verified that happened -- that transaction took place a year after she departed. >> so she doesn't support that? >> i'm not saying that. >> why would you say she wasn't part of it? >> during the course of -- >> she supported the iran deal. >> she absolutely did. >> so the administration is saying that's part of this. >> actually, i think this was negotiated separately from the iran nuclear agreement that's what the white house explained today. this payment was the settlement that dates back to 1979 -- >> so she supports it in other words? >> i think that she -- that the white house has fully explained this was a matter of settling an outstanding claim. in fact, the $400 million represents -- >> i know what the white house said. eye asking wh

froze after the first hostage seizure in iran in the late 1970s. officials said the settlement of that claim the tune of $1.7 billion overall came just as washington was finalizing a separate prisoner swap for the four americans who were set free. >> there was a conscious strategic decision that was made on the part of the obama administration as we were implementing the deal to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon to resolve other longstanding concerns we had with iran. >> now, the state department acknowledges this was not the typical way we do business sending $400 million in hard currency, foreign currency aboard an unmarked cargo plane to be delivered more or less in the dead of night to tehran. they said they were forced to get creative because the u.s. does not have diplomatic relations with iran. critics are saying this amounts to ransom and it has emboldened the iranian regime to take more americans hostage later this year, trish. >> thank you so much. good to see you, james. state department spokesperson kirby putting it this way

jerry, how >> the nub of the matter is, is this iran's money or american money? in the view of the administration and most lawyers, this is iran's money. it goes back to a 1979 deal in which the iranians bought under the shah some fighter jets that were never deliver. the rest is supposed to be interest that's been sitting in to see the resource. if it is taxpayer money, you have a different situation. i think the issue is not so much the payment, as you noted the president announced, it's the manner and timing of the payment. underneath all of that is a much bigger issue. part of this effort to clear the decks with the iranians, the nuclear deal, the americans held hostage and this money, will that produce some change in iranian behavior? or is this simply a case in which they'll pocket what they have and move on to the next, that's the real question that hangs in the air here. lisa lerer, what makes it harder for the op 'bama administration to argue, one of the pastors who was a hostage said they were sitting on the plane waiting to leave after years of capital ac

do you see any change in iran, how it's acting result of this iran deal? >> well, first of all, bret, the day began with a complete falsehood being tweeted out by the trump campaign. donald trump tried to suggest that hillary clinton was involved in this $400 million payment to iran. of course, independent fact checkers verified that happened -- that transaction took place a year after she departed. >> so she doesn't support that? >> i'm not saying that. >> why would you say she wasn't part of it? >> during the course of -- >> she supported the iran deal. >> she absolutely did. >> so the administration is saying that's part of this. >> actually, i think this was negotiated separately from the iran nuclear agreement that's what the white house explained today. this payment was the settlement that dates back to 1979 -- >> so she supports it in other words? >> i think that she -- that the white house has fully explained this was a matter of settling an outstanding claim. in fact, the $400 million represents -- >> i know what the white house said. eye asking wh

hostages in iran back in the late 1970s, when u.s. froze iranian assets including four million dollars sent to the pentagon negotiated with shah of iran prior to the islamic revolution. iran's claim to the money has been shaking its way through international courts ever since. officials said today, that the $400 million cash payment that the u.s. arranged in january on or about the very day that our hostages were freed from iran, was only the first installment in the total payment of 1.7 billion, a bargain the state department claims, compared to the 10 billion that the iranians could have won in court. >> everybody has been up front and honest what happened here and why it happened and how it happened. oh, by the way, the teams that were negotiating release of our americans were completely separate team than was working in the hague tribunal to negotiate this claim, completely separate processes. simultaneously done timing all coincidental. reporter: cash payment and release of our hostages occurred almost exactly as the nuclear deal

in cash? was it shipped to iran, the remaining $1.3 billion? they won't answer and from the very start when the announcement was made in january the timing of this was did the money, were they waiting for cash to arrive and then let the americans leave the country? was it tied in some way? they are not answering that question. trish: some of your sources in the intelligence community are saying the uranian's wanted some kind of payment to show that they got something? >> there is so much distrust, the uranian seized on the issue of $400 million which it was there money, the shaw's government did distribute that money in 1979. for them it was the return of that money was some sort of goodwill and all these other pieces would move forward is how it was described to me. trish: it is hard to look at how this all unfolded and not question the timing of it, whether this was ransom. what is your gut reaction? >> i congratulate jay on staying with his story and trying to figure out what happened here. we still don't know. the administration insists, you

in 1979. because the shaw of iran was overthrown. decision.he right it was hard for the united states to make an argument in this case that we could just keep the money. with the united states did was resolved a long-standing claim that saved the american people potentially billions of dollars. details,ates to the thefact of the matter is united states does not have a banking relationship with iran. that is thatn for the administration has kept in place tough financial sanctions against iran because of a variety of concerns that we have about their behavior including their support for terrorism, violation of human rights and a ballistic missile program that continues to be inconsistent with un security council resolutions. the facts of this are quite clear. it's an indication of just how badly opponents of the iran deal are struggling to justify their dealition to a successful that has prevented and continues to prevent iran from developing a new there with -- nuclear weapon. >> was this money ransom for the folks that were released?

in europe recently. cuba, and it ran -- iran. >> $775 million a year in budget? >> 750, right now. we hope to move it up. >> is it enough. >> it is never enough for the job that we have. i think we're doing a good job how we're spending that money in service to a free press, engaging and connecting people around the world. but we're up against competition. russian media outspends u.s. international media significantly as does china, state-sponsored media. we're also up against competition trying to stop our work, trying to at times shut down our satellite signals into these areas. trying to cramp, crimp down on our internet distribution. so it is not only the money spent with a competitive media but also money that the, other competitors in the world use to try to stifle our work. >> john lansing, as someone who came out of the private enterprise world and worked in tv in that regard, what are some of the most effective platforms that you have here at bbg that you use? >> well historically this all began with radio in the post-world war ii era but increasingly in the last five to,

in history. am i one who remembers iran-contra. : this is not consistent what we do. >> we didn't have this with ronald reagan in 1980s. s israelis exchange fors who stanes all the time. harris: wait, wait, you're talking two different things. bowe bergdahl, obviously we will exchange, but we said, and president has said and josh earnest and others said we don't make cash payments. we know we let seven of their prisoners go, iranian prisoners and 14 others being adjudicated we wiped that process away. was this to sweeten the deal? if it was not ransom, it was cash and looks like a little quid pro quo. >> i made a whole lot of bad movies so i understand that. no, the truth is, it's a ransom payment. it's a ransom payment any way you look at it. it's a ransom payment, maybe would have had to pay the money at some point in time. all caught up in the same thing. same reason plane wouldn't take off. if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck. harris: this time it's a shark. >> no question about it. that is ransom. meghan: why is the p

the video aired in iran just daying after the release of four american prisoners. the pentagon dismissed the cash payment and the prisoner's release saying the negotiations were entirely separate. >> we announced these payments in january. it wasn't some nefarious deal. and at the sometime, we explained that iran had put a claim before an international tribunal about them recovering money of theirs that we had frozen. >> until today, donald trump repeatedly said he saw secret video of cash being unloaded in iran, just as those americans were freed. >> it was an airplane with the money coming in, and it was given to us by the iranians, and you know why? they want to embarrass our country. >> today, trump says the plane i saw was the hostage plane in geneva, switzerland. trump referring to this entirely different video showing the plane that carried the freed americans. however, the timing of the two transactions, prisoners going out, hundreds of machiillions cg in, one of the freed american prisoners told fox news he and his fellow americans waited at the airport in

the result is important, because we got americans back that should have never been in jail in iran in the first place. >> we're in agreement on that. it's just the tactics were wrong.

a bombshell report on the release of detained americans in iran. million in cash to iran, some calling it a ransom payment. mike pence weighed in on this. >> we cannot have four more years accommodating and apologizing for our enemies or abandoning our friends. america needs to be strong for the world to be safe and donald trump will lead on the world stage from strength. maria: isis is spreading, the white house showing where the terrorist group is planting roots. a bus sliced nearly in half, the crash killed 5 people this morning. taking a page out of snapchat, instagram offering its own disappearing pictures. we are watching earnings, time warner said to report ahead of "the opening bell," the media giant reporting a decline in earnings and revenue from a year earlier. markets looking at weakness, futures indicate a lower opening for the dow jones industrial average, seven straight days of selling. stock down 7 days in a row, longest losing streak in a year. a first look at the job market this morning when we get the adp report that is due at 8:

signed with iran shortly before the fall of the shah in 1978-1979. u.s. officials say iran's claims with respect to that deal have been winding their way through the international courts at the hague and u.s. stood to lose $10 million. the white house claims it was co-incidental with the release of the hostages. they wore conducted by different teams and technical experts involved in these investigation for many years. paying ransom to kidnappers puts americans even more at risk. since january iran has detained at least two more iranian americans. liz: what type of impact does this have, especially with the election. reporter: the fundamental question is how many american voters remain persuadable. hillary clinton cites the iran nuclear deal as a triumph of diplomacy. republican nominee donald trump calls the iran deal one of the worst agreements ever negotiated and he faults the administration for showing weakness when 10u.s. sailors were detained and released by iran. bill: there is boundsless reaction to the story. donald trump was on this earlier today

earlier and trump is backing off claims of seeing a video of a $400 million cash payment being unloaded in iran. >>> and trump is a agent for vladimir putin. >> hillary clinton may be digging a deeper hole for herself when it comes to her e-mail controversy. now she says she may have mischaracterized or short circuited about the truthfulness. is she keeping the story alive by fumbling her explanation. >>> and nuclear codes, the next commander and chief will have control of the nuclear arsenal. we'll take you for a closer look inside. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room."

timing here during the week, it was dominated with the news of this $400 million in money that was returned by the u.s. to iran because of jets that were not purchased back in the '70s and then others were believing that it was ransom. is there anything to the timing of this kind of news to what dominated news last week? >> i don't think so, i'm still surprised that they executed him now, they have had him in custody for six years, they gave him a ten-year jail sentence, he was serving that and they decided to execute him. i thought they would execute him immediately after he went back. we have seen that in iraq, other countries, as soon as they get back, executed. this is very strange, the timing is very suspect, maybe they're just trying to deflect attention. >> you see in iran, you had a reaction from the right wing, they don't like the nuclear deal, they got cheated, a lot of internal politics and the prosecutors in iran are very, very far to the right and this may have something to do with internal bopolitics and it's so confusing in iran and we may never know why they executed him. >> thank you very much

the only people that are making that suggestions are right wing ers in iran and those in america. we said that there would be a lot of in do in do and then those that engage with iran. i recommend that the details that you illicit is a colorful news story, but they don't change the fact. >> since then two more have been arrested in iran and it will put additional administrations at risk. >> to put a price tag on the head of every american traveling abroad. >> they have made every american who knows that they can get a pay off. >> the desalniables are laughab >> james, i thought that the push back was forceful and possibly affective. are we just to believe that this was all a coincidence and there was no ransom paid? >> well, great to be with you guys. first of all as to how affective, will remain to be seen and all of this is exploding in a highly charge election season, and you do have donald trump out there teasing on this. so it remains to be seen how affective. i would say that here at the state department they told us that we knew that the optics were bad, and we went forward

>> i'm sure president obama will say it went for infrastructure investment in iran. but the reality is if you look at the iran -- iran spend a lot of money supporting terrorist groups around the world. the largest state sponsor of international terrorist movement, and before that money was delivered, before the iran nuclear deal, one of the terrorists outposts, hamas and hezbollah -- the money was drying up. they were not getting money from iran. in the last month or so it shows they have in fact the money flow , the spigot has been turned on there there is a relationship between the iran get thing mow and the terrorists get egg the money. >> i keep asking the question because it's mind boggling how on earth $400 million can just be transferred like that. if you're a business, you're running a business, and you're accountable to shareholders you got account for every single penny. how is it that the u.s. government can suddenly have $400 million just evaporate? >> half a billion dollars. the tragedy is that whoever's budget it came out of, the pentagon has not had a f

>> it is part of the posturing and fits in the pattern of the posturing coming out of iran since the beginning of the year. it is one of of several things they are doing to turn up the temperature. but it is driven by the internal domestic political dispute. in terms of the nuclear facility, the reality that facility is difficult for anyone to target under any circumstances regardless of whether they have defense, in fact because it is 300 feet below ground. the israelis can't target it and the united states would have is difficulties as well. adding the s300s to it is putting icing on top of a cake and not much of a big change, but designed to show that the iran revolutionary guard corps is in charge and poke the international community in the eye and in the process embarrass and make things harder for the moderate factions that are trying to find a motus oprandi with the rest of the world. >> when they send small inceptor ships in front of the u.s. ships that could easy leblow them out of the water. is that designed for domestic consumption? >> the two things going on, the iranians

in the view of the administration and most lawyers, this is iran's money. i want goes back to a 1979 deal in which the iranians bought, under the shah, some fighter jets that were never delivered. the rest is supposed to be interest on that unpaid amount of money that's been sitting in escrow ever since. if it's not taxpayer money, it's hard to see what the recourse is. if it is taxpayer money, you have a different situation. but i think the issue here is not so much the payment, it's the manner and timing of the payment. and underneath all of that is a much bigger issue, which is, is part of this effort to clear the decks with the iranian's nuclear deal, the americans held hostage, and this money, is that going to produce some change in iranian behavior, or is this simply a case in which they're going to pocket what they have, and then move on to the next attempt to get more out of it? that's the real question that hangs in the air here. >> lisa, lara, what makes this even harder for the obama administration to argue is that one of the hostages, pastor say

do not invest in iran. that money will begin to start showing the west is going to be open season and the reason our country does not deal with terrorists it tells us that we are weak. they will eventually make a deal with us. and say they didn't. would be the best way to do this. those are members of the green revolution. what can we do. both on the diplomatic level and at the grassroots. we can say that we will not work with terrorists or islamists. we will work with secular change. the oppressed citizen if they cs stand for those principles and continue. one of the reason we haven't seen the is because of our economic sanctions. the people of iran don't want to see us lift that. now they cs lift it. lifted. not towards that regime change but actually development. they want us to break that. and begin to help civil society changes within the grassroots of the iranian people. it is a troubling day because as you said this opens the door for other americans who might be in the middle east and is not a good

and overused systems, we'll head to rio live in a few minutes. >>> plus a plane full of cash lands in irane middle of the night. the obama administration says, move on, nothing to see here. greta van susteren is on deck to break it all down. >> at the same time we were working on the release of these detainees. i recognize, i can see the optics of this, and that people would draw assumptions, people do, that we can't keep them from doing so. i'll never find a safe used car. start at the new carfax.com show me minivans with no reported accidents. boom. love it. [struggles] show me the carfax. start your used car search at the all-new carfax.com. >>> much more ahead on donald trump and an apparent shift for his campaign, plans to endorse house speaker paul ryan sometime tonight. we'll be talking about that and much more with fox news sunday anchor chris wallace, all coming up when i fill in on "shepard smith reporting." see you then. >>> president obama pushing back against allegations that a"ga it was going to work. the only bit of news that is relevant on this is the fact that we paid cash

moving now to a new development in the war in syria, russian warplanes have used a base in iran to carry out airstrikes. bombers took off on tuesday during a rates in aleppo. activists line at least 27 civilians were killed. reduces therom iran flying time for pilots as russian and syrian regime forces step up their bombing campaigns. eric randolph is there and told us about the growing relationship between the countries. >> a number of shared interest in syria. they have shown increasing cooperation since the nuclear deal. there has been a deal to increase training in terrorism cooperation. iran. has supplied and the fact they support a they are- assad, strong reasons to cooperate at this stage. they are both very serious about that support for assad. >> are we likely to see further cooperation moving forward? >> i think so. they both see this as a crucial moment in the war. they busily -- they believe assad has some momentum. they know the u.s. has failed to achieve many of its strategic goals and they see this as a moment to press their advantage. now that they have broken the overtn

he had left his family, wife and child in iran. he got lonely and unhappy and went back, said she had been pressured by the united states. i don't think it makes a difference in terms of the future. the u.s. has extensive intelligence resources devoted to iran. one reason the u.s. was nuclear deal is because they know so much about what's going on in the country because of spying and surveillance. >> john: i'd like to talk about russia for a moment. there's been back and forth about donald trump's position on russia. give us your take on what the u.s. relationship is with russia right now. i should also mention russia is finger in hacking scandal at the democratic committee, these candidates and that country. i think the obama administration is deeply frustrated. it hoped it would be able to find in russia a partner to sdofrl the nightmare war in syria. that hasn't happened. the u.s. continues in effect to leave the exit ramp open for vladimir putin to adopt more sensible policies. i think there is deep concern about russian hacking

in news. dana perino tells us how we should responds. u.s. pays $400 million to iran in ransom money.lad you are here, i'm kennedy. how big will the economy become as an issue in this 2016 fight and who will win it? let's ask our party panel. mike barrack is also here, former cia covert operations officer. tom shillue is here host of red eye on the fox news channel and with a fresh beard grown for good measure. julie, i'll start with you. you eye agree that the economy is not great and it's not good news for her. >> if only the republicans had a presidential candidate who might mention that once in a while. but he's trashing gold star mothers. if i'm paul ryan i'm crying every day because of the fact you just laid out a better case for why hillary could be defeated than i ever heard a republican say. kennedy: particular read the newspapers. and if katie couric sat me down, i could tell her which ones. don't you think if donald trump were quite and took that simple advice and didn't talk, and if he did talk about how bad the economy was, that would be more harmful than anything else th

and our own president can secretly ship $400 million in cash to iran and pretend it is all just aboveboard? meanwhile, pastor syed abedini, one of the four american hostages in freed in january, will be joining me here in a few short minutes to share the horrifying details of life inside an iranian prison and what really happened the night of his release. again the same night, we made that 400 mil. >>> donald trump hitting a rough patch in recent days. now the mainstream media is piling on, trumpeting a trump implosion. saying his campaign is in total disarray but is it really? is it really implosion? why aren't we seeing same media frenzy over us negotiating with state sponsors of terrorism? favorite media critic, howard kurtz will weigh in on that. >>> number one issue facing americans is stilt economy. a brand new fox news poll shows americans believe trump is the only one that can turn this economy around. so will he stick to an economic message? our political all-stars are here. but back to our top story. the state department blatantly ignoring the justice department's objections to t

ghasemi says translated "..russia has neither a base in iran nor has it been stationed in iran. it was a temporary job, a mutual understanding with iran's permission." questions about the shifting alliances on the sidelines of syria's five year long civil war. russia could now turn to turkey, who announced today it's stepping up support for moderate opposition groups in syria, hoping to clear the isis threat from the border area. cavusoglu says translated "..we can provide support to all forces fighting against isis, especially to moderate opposition forces. indeed, we have always supported those fighting towards the east of the country which is obama administration says it wants to keep engaging with all parties to the conflict, including russia, saying consensus is the only way to end the fighting and secure a lasting peace. kerry says "..it is imperative that russia, iran, the regime, all of the parties supporting the opposition, people come together in order to find a way forward." on cam tag secretary kerry is working with his russi week to secure a forty-eight hour ceasefi

ghasemi says translated "..russia has neither a base in iran nor has it been stationed in iran. it was a temporary job, a mutual understanding with iran's permission." questions about the shifting alliances on the sidelines of syria's five year long civil war. russia could now turn to turkey, who announced today it's stepping up support for moderate opposition groups in syria, hoping to clear the isis threat from the border area. cavusoglu says translated "..we can provide support to all forces fighting against isis, especially to moderate opposition forces. indeed, we have always supported those fighting towards the east of the country which is

in the '80s, there were more than 25 americans taken at the behest of iran in lebanon. over 100 foreigners. by the time the iran-contra, if you will, scandal occurred, people had seen that in fact there was no question at all, iran was selling the release of these individuals, and then using the cash for corrupt, and if you will, terrorism. and where we are today. the law very clearly says you cannot do what has effectively happened. now the question is did they break the law. some may say they didn't. did they circumvent the law in a way in which there is $400 million worth of untraceable notes that can be turned into u.s. dollars, handed to hamas in gaza, handed to hezbollah in the south of lebanon, used to move terrorism or war efforts destabilizing countries around the world, the answer is yes. >> that's a huge concern, particularly the fact that this money can be used to support iran's agenda of supporting terrorist networks across the region. i want our viewers to hear this sound from josh ernest who actually acknowledged that they could never prevent that money fr

his campaign says he was talking about shows the hostages in switzerland, not the transfer of funds in iran. speaker paul ryan in next week's primary also continues to be a distraction. today, ryan responded. >> reporter: trump's running mate, mike pence, endorsed ryan yesterday. trump said it's not an issue. >> he said, "but i like him. he's a friend of of mine. would you mind if i endorse him "yes." "go ahead and do it 100%." >> reporter: pence was asked if his role was to soften up trump's rough edges. >> sometimes things downtown of don't always come out like you mean, right, and donald trump and i are absolutely determined to work together. we have different styles. you might have noticed that. >> reporter: earlier today, pence ignored an opportunity to endorse g.o.p. senators john mccain of arizona and kelly ayotte of new hampshire, prompt, cheers from top democrats. maurice, pence is trying endorsing both, another example of things not coming out as you mean. >> dubois: major garrett in washington. trump was one of the topics at a news conference president obama held today at the pen

the obama administration during his rally last night. >> $400 million in cash being flown in an airplane to iran. i wonder where that money really goes. i wonder where it really goes. it either went in their pockets, which i think more so, or toward terrorism, probably a combination of both. nicole: the white house insists the money was the first installment a $1.7 billion settlement of a failed arms deal in 1979. lauren: paul ryan taking a shot at donald trump after the republican presidential nominee refused to endorse several of the party's key congressional members including arizona senator john mccain and speaker ryan himself. >> we came out of the convention, a pretty strange run since the convention. you would think if we were focusing on hillary clinton and all her deficiencies, see is such a weak candidate one would think we would be an offense against hillary clinton and it is distressing that is not what we are talking about. nicole: trump's running mate mike pence smoothing over turmoil in the republican party. >> sometimes things don't come out like you mean, donald trump and i are

i want to ask about the recent developments in iran. addition to your recent reports for mother jones, in 2009, you spend more than two years in evin prison after you and two other americans, not your wife sarah shourd, and joshua fattal were captured while hiking or the unmarked iran-iraq border. you recount this in your book. this is a clip of you speaking shortly after your release. the only explanation for our prolonged detention is the 32 years of mutual hostility between america and iran. we were convicted of espionage because we are american. it is that simple. no evidence was ever presented against us. that is because there is no evidence and because we are completely innocent. many times, too many times, we heard the screams of other prisoners being beaten and it was nothing we could do to help them. confinement was the worst experience of all of our lives. that had tohtmare endure for 14 months -- sarah had to endure for 14 months. we had a total of 15 minutes telephone calls with our families and one short visit from our moth

in the investors. it is a significant timeframe here. if iranoes manage to bring in the big investors that will increase its share of the market. it wants to add six or 700,000 barrels. most of that will be exported into the market. with saudi arabia cutting its sales prices that dynamic of competition is fighting for market share. that is definitely a dynamic that is still in play. we do have the moment is a storm force eight warning in effect in hong kong. it is after noon. theo have the moment trading suspended on the hong kong exchange due to the weather. it has been weakened to just a mere tropical storm. they haven't actually downgraded from that. that is what we have the moment. there no trading this afternoon. due to this tropical storm that is coming in. let's check on some of the first world headlines coming in. iran's supreme leader says that the relations with the u.s. and the rest of the world and there has been no benefit from the landmark deal with iran. they said it was almost no positive impact on the use of said iran will not e

government, the levinson family, and the press kept to what meyer says is levinson's cover story, he was in iran investigating cigarette smuggling. >> we knew he was a consultant to the cia. we didn't know whether he was dead or alive. the story he gambling somebody's life over. >>reporter: that changed in 2013, the associated press and washington post decided to break the story that levinson was collecting information for the cia and that it sparked a scandal inside the agency. >> at some point, heads rolled. the explanation for why bob's handler and two other senior analysts were pushed out was that they had essentially run this rogue operation. intelligence about iran. >> bob levinson was not a u.s. government employee when he went missing in iran. >>reporter: bob's family has pleaded with the u.s. government to get him back. they've gone to congress. >> my family will never rest until my father is back with us. >>reporter: and levinson's son dan even traveled to iran to find him. still, nothing. nearly ten years on, the levinson family has no answers. just >> they're a family with no closure

the state department says that it has no way to protect united states the distance in iran>>> battleproposed cigarette tax in california is heating up with one side accusing the other of dirty politics. the measure is proposition 36 that would increase the cigarette tax it also includes higher taxes for electronic cigarettes. until yesterday people who went online and tight six -- yes, and went online and put yes, were put on that website. >> it happens a lot. >> they are redirecting traffic from yes to know and we can send that that is a violation of california law and federal law. >> they filed a complaint with the atty. gen.'s office. the no on 56 call the use of the website in inadvertent error and yesterday they took it down. >>> lawmakers are considering a proposed bill that would prohibit employers for asking candidates about crimes that they committed as a juvenile. they passed the bill and it is heading back to the assembly for a final vote it would measure, just prohibit companies requiring them to disclose information about involvement in the juvenile justice system that d

missing in iran. >>reporter: bob's family has pleaded with the u.s. government to get him back. they've gone to congress. >> my family will never rest until my father is back with us. >>reporter: and levinson's son dan even traveled to iran to find him. still, nothing. nearly ten years on, the levinson family has no answers. just questions. >> they're a family with no closure. they wake up every morning wo going to happen that's going to resolve this case. it's been happening day after day after day, and they deserve much better. >>reporter: the fbi director stated in march that his agency was, quote, doing everything in our power to investigate all leads. >>> thank you, scott. ahead, we follow the money, and >>> this week, we follow the money and the trail of wasteful spending leads straight to the department of veterans affair. lawmakers are criticizing the agency saying the va took artistic liberty on some very pricey purchases. >> the committee recently found that the paolo alto va healthcare system has spent $6.3 million on art, on art an consulting services. >> the republi