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maziar bahari is the author. i am glad that you had the opportunity to survive this ordeal and you and your family, you can spend talking -- time talking about this ordeal. >> thank you. it was an honor to be here. tavis: next, oscar-nominated actorress gabourey sidibe. stay with us. gabourey sidibe was nominated for role in "precious". it can see her in "the big c". here is a scene from "the big c". >> i am bedazzling one haulingon costume. >> you still dress up? >> yes. i remember -- i love pauline. >> it was the first year he got halloween. we were done trecker trading in one hour. he came home and dumped his bad on the floor and tore into the candy. i found him waiting at the front door dressed out ready to go again. >> he was pocahontas? paul was sure he was going to be gay. tavis: nice to have you on the program. >> thank you. tavis: for somebody who did not want to do this, who fought doing it, because your mother did it and you saw her struggles, for someone who did not want to do it using to be doing all

maziar bahari.you start. >> jon: you're very kind. all right. nicely done. how are you? >> i'm fine. but before we start i'd like to get something off my chest. you know, last time i came here, you know, we were joking. i said that you got me in jail. immediately i said i'm kidding. >> jon: you did say that. >> then on blogs and, you know, in papers i saw that prison. i just want to say that it does not have anything to do with my imprisonment, my arrest. those guys, i wanted to say something else. >> jon: watch your language on this show, young man. >> i didn't know if i should say that or not. >> jon: this is a very classy operation we run. >> those guys who arrested me, they wanteded to fabricate charges against me. >> jon: right. >> i could be in sesame street and they would accuse elmo of sedition. >> jon: you have just broken a story, my friend. what are you hiding, elmo? >> i could be two-and-a-half men and they could accuse me of cooperating with what's his name? charlie sheen. >> jon: exact

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he interview maziar bahari in a cafe and jason pretended to be spy. while you were in prison they showed a tape of that to you and said what are you talking to a spy? >> because jason looked like a spy. acted like a spy. >> jon: right. >> i guess he tasted like a spy. to they say he's a spy. >> jon: the thing is they probably never explained is why would a spy do that on television? >> and why there are laugh tracks. >> jon: the laughter is real. ( cheers and applause ) let me ask you, first of all, this really is is an incredible story. i want to show this right here. then they came for me. a family story. what's incredible is is your father in the 1950s was arrested by the shaw's people because he belonged to what was called the tuda party. >> the communist party. >> jon: your sister was arrested.... >> in the 1980s. >> jon: in the 1980s under khomeini. the same thing. your family has faced this history. how does a family stay at a certain point in the country and put up with that sort of sword hanging over their heads all the time? >> the story of

we'll talk to iranian journalist maziar bahari. here is my take. i've been watching the republicans on the campaign trail. what strikes me so far is that conservatives in america have gone through a strange transformation. it used to be that conservatism was a hard-headed set of ideas rooted in reality. unlike the abstract theories of marxism and socialism, it started not have an imagined society, but from the world as it actually exists. this is the way things work, conservatives would patiently explain to professors. whatever you want it to look like, this sp what it really looks like. consider the debates over the economy these days. the republican prescription is cut taxes,/government spending and things will always bounce back. i would like to see lower tax rates in the context of simplify case and reform, but what is the actual evidence that massive tax cuts are the single best path to revive the u.s. economy. taxes as a percentage of gdp are at the lowest level since 1950. the u.s. is among the lowest taxed of the big industrial economies. s

maziar bahari. take a look at the that's our show. join us tomorrow night here at 11:00. >> when am i publicizing on this tour? i'm publicizing americana and our foundation and how important it is is that we learn about our pa captioning sponsored by comedy central captioned by media access group a captioning sponsored by comedy central ( theme song playing ) ( applause ) >> stephen: yeah, yeah, oh, yeah, this is good stuff. welcome to the report. thank you so much, everybody. >> stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! stephen, stephen, stephen! >> stephen: thank you, ladies and gentlemen. good to have you with us. nation, this is one of those rare days that make me proud to be a newsman. to report history as it happens. because i think we will all remember where we were when we found out that this is, in fact, anthony weiner's [bleep]. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: i know, it's shocking. he's so thin. naked he must look like a windsock hanging off a parking meter. now he said this wasn't him. but today at an emergen