rajini: jason rezaian, this is your booker "pris thanks very much. jason: thank you. now to london, the largest archaeological excavation in the u.k. is currently underway to maa way fow high-speed rail line. during the digging, the grave ob one tain's greatest maritime explorers was found. his final resting place had long been forgotten. reporter: back in the 1780's, london was running out of space. wt had nowhere for the dead. and so it created cemeteries. one of them is here. and now, more than 200 years lar, that land is needed f another purpose. the dead are going to have to find a new final resting place. and this is the reason why. this is where london's high-speed railway station is about to be built. and so a small army of archaeologists have arrived to move thousands of bodies. how many people are we talng about buried here? >> the record is about 60,000 people interred in the cemeteryt re: of course, some have over the years been removed, but there is still a huge number of people buried here. ending up probably with around 40,000 individuals. ngreporter: y

earlier, jason rezaian joined me the studio. start with the circumstances surroundn g your arrest14. jason: i was going about my life in in, working as a journali and covering everything one does in a country, including the nuclear negotiations between iran and world powers. my wife and i were on the verge of coming back here to t united states for a little r&r to recharge before what was to be a very long slog of working this particular story. very suddenly we were apprehended in our home as we were getting ready to leave our apartment to go to a party taken off to the most notorious prison in that part of the world and one that has been the long-term home of political prisoners, foreign nat, and journalists like myself.u rajini: ite in very vivid detail about how you were held in solitary confinement. just explain to our viewers what it is like. s jason: the firen weeks that i was in prison i was in solitary, and i hope that that is not something that anybody ever has to experien what i try to do in the book is gi readers a gro

and jason rezaian's new book docunting his time as a prisoner in iran. there are new allegations of sexual misconduct and assault by a proment filmmaker, bryan singer.d singer direcohemian rhapsody," which was just nominated for a best picture oscar earlier this week. he was behind a number of other major films as well, including peveral of the "x-men" movies and "the usual ss." his movies have earned three billion dollars at the box office. amna nawaz looks at the allegations and how they once again raise questions aboutho ywood.aw >>: judy, bryan singer has faced similar allegations and even lawsuits before that were eventually dismissed. but an investigation published w "the atlantic" details claims of abuse and sexualr assault from fn who say they were minors at the time. three of them remained anonymous in the pce. a fourth went public by name. in somcases, singer is accused outright of rape and assault. in others, he's accused of seduction, sexual encounters and misconduct when the men were underage. the article also reports that singer engaged in

the airy kitchen of their washington home is now quiet comfort for jason and yeganeh rezaian, three years after jason's release from an iranian prison, following 544 days iny captiv rezaian was the "washingtonpo 's" tehran bureau chief when, in july 2014, he and yeganeh were arrested. they were newlyweds, both holding official journalist's inrmits, re-authorized the very day they were de. you were just about as unlikely a political prisoner as i can think that. why do youhink they chose you? >> i think they chose me because i was the best available option. an american citizen working form a major americia organization. one of the few based in iran few media organizations. the only american and a duel iranian national so they could have their cake and eat it too. you know treat me as an iranianh citizen, put mugh the rigmarole of a judicial process there. and at the same time try and extract concessions from the united states i was doing my job. and like any journalist i had contacts in the u.e government, anian government, in the iranian construction of this case against me, thewas that b

jason rezaian, you're back to writing, opinion writer for "the washington post" right now. >> yes. >> and you're a contributor on cnn. >> that's right. >> best of luck to you. if you would like to meet jason and maybe get a copy of his book, he will be tonight at dominican university in san rafael. >> in conversation with bell. and at the commonwealth club in san francisco wednesday at noon. >> jason rezaian, thank you so much for coming in. >> thank you. >> ama? >> all right, thank you. we want to turn our attention to the weather now. it is monday, and i think, spencer, some rain coming our way maybe? >> yes, maybe a string of rainy days. here is doppler 7. it's dry at the moment, but clouds are increasing. this is the view from the exploratorium camera, looking out over the skyline as it gets cloudier and cloudier. 60 degrees in san francisco. oakland 64. low to mid-60s. morgan hill, 55 at half moon bay. and this is the view of the increasing clouds from looking southeast ward. beautiful cloud formation there's. we have temperatures in the mid to 60s also, low to mid-60s i should s

jason rezaian joins me now. thanks for being with us. congratulations on the book. about what you went through, but so much more detail and so many new things here. i want to start, if you can, at the beginning here. that's where you started the book, when you were first arrested. you and your wife were headed out the door and for face to face with a man with a gun and a warrant. you think this can't be that big of a deal, but it is. >> exactly. we were very quickly hauled off to a prison, one of the most notorious prisons in the world, blindfolded, taken into an interrogation room, separated. next thing you know i'm being hurled with accusations of crimes that i have supposedly committed against the iranian government, spying for the u.s. their main evidence was a kickstarter project. i tried to implement it and failed several years before. >> since you brought that up, the kickstarter project was about avocados. >> yeah. i took a crack at a tongue in cheek plan to bring avocados to iran. >> there's no guacamole there. >> i'm a big fan. why aren't there avocados in

i sit down with "washington journalist jason rezaian about documenting his captivity in a new book. > a huge relief to get on that plane and lift off and leave iranian airspace. but it was also enormous loss for both of us.st so you know i'l riddled with mixed emotions about the

. >> brennan: we're back now with bret mcgurk and would like to welcome jason r rezaian. i think it's pretty interesting to talk to you, at the same time the guy that negotiated your release to the right of you. i don't think that's happened before. jason, it's good to see you in person as someone who covered your captivity. >> thank you, thank you for having me on. >> brennan: one of the new details i learned in the book, why you were arrested in the first place. one of the absurd things you were told. the story has to do with avocados. can you explain it? >> yes, 2011 i put up a kickstarter project. the crowd funding website to raise funds to bring avocados to iran. i was trying to make a point, tongue and cheek, that iran is a county that has been isolated for so many years. a manifestation is they have been cut off from the world, the great joys of the world one being avocados. in the first night of interrogations i was told this was definitive proof i was a spy. they didn't know what a avocado was, what it meant or what it was code for. it was nefas.t days. >> brennan

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