we hear from jason rezian's brother, ali, that the iranian government is presenting two pieces of evidence against jason in terms of these espionage charges. the first reportedly is an american visa application for jason's wife. he was trying to get his wife a visa to visit the u.s. he apparently met with some american consular officials about that and maybe iran finds that incredibly suspect. the second piece of evidence against him reportedly is a form letter sent by jason rezaian to president obama's white house transition team in 2008 when president obama had been elected but not sworn in and the transition team put a form letter up on their website that people could fill in to offer any help they may be able to suggest to the transition team and jason rezaian reportedly offered, use that form to help improve relations between iran and the united states. and maybe iran finds that incredibly suspect, too. we don't know because the trial will be held behind closed doors. supporters of press freedom in general and jason rezaian in particular have been clambering for the american governmen

american irani journalist jason rezian has been held there for a year. he's facing a trial for propaganda against the iranian republic. u.s. officials are tried repeatedly for his release but so far they have not had any luck. >>> thank you. six months and no charges following the plane crash that killed six people in gaithersburg last december. montgomery county says it won't reduce service at the nearby airpark just yet. they planned to make changes but learn they would lose millions in federal grant money if it did. >> some of them come out here and obey the flight guidelines but a high percentage or too high of a percentage just are cowboys. >> the airpark concerned citizens alliance says it's worried about families' safety. the county explored cutting training at the airpark as well as late night flights. >>> lawyers for a serial killer on death row now expecting him to be a fundamental miscarriage of justice. >> that's because he is intellectually disabled. he was sentenced to the death for the murder of two george washington students in 1988. a th

look at jason rezian the three other americans who are there. may execute more people every year than the chinese. all of these things are true. and it makes this deal one that's highly fraught. >> it does seem to the outside viewer that the only thing you have on them is the sanctions. that squeezing them -- i know the other side will say they've done all this with the sanctions. say that's even more reason, john mccain and others will say that's even more reason to turn the screws tighter on sanctions. and that absent that they do whatever they want and it's almost always against u.s. interests. if you abandon those sanctions are you worried about what happens? >> yeah. because i think you are going to find an iran that has more money, even if it puts a fair percentage of that into economic reconstruction and doing things that actually benefit the quality of life for the iranian public. they're still going to finance their adventures abroad in yemen, iraq and syria. there's a reality, again, we have a rising iran an iran that fashions itself a