arrest of araf that we started our analysis of preemptive prosecution and ultimately setup project salamy: what is so astounding about this film, you are filming it not in retrospect, people regrading the story, but as it is happening -- both sides -- they don't know you are interviewing each other, david and lyric. now you come to the point, the possibility of arrest. how are you there in his early morning hours when khalifah al-akili was arrested? >> it was a coincidence. we were on our way to film him going to morning prayer. we knew there was a possibility of him being arrested soon, so we wanted to film with them as much as possible. we wanted to capturing going to the mosque in the early morning. previously, sharif would offer him rights to the mosque. sharif lived half a block down the street from khalifah al-akili, which was an intentional decision on the fbi to get him as close as possible. it is a tactic they use frequently. oh, you're going to the mosque? i cannot for your right. we pull up in our car and seat suvs outside the front of khalifah al-akili plus apartment and grab

. >> and so i and my coauthor, a guy named reihan salam -- >> right >> -- talked a lot about sort of what it would mean to have a kind of pro-family conservative economic, sort of ideas in that vein, basically. >> right. >> and what happened to the republicans after we wrote the book was pretty much the opposite, that the party after george w. bush looked at the bush presidency and said, well, what went wrong under bush was that we became too much of a big government party, that we betrayed the true small government faith. >> right. >> and so the whole party swung in a much more sort of libertarian direction on economics. >> and it's not still there now as we sit here? >> well, what's happened in the last six months, again, this is a -- it's all very provisional, but a bunch of people in washington, d.c., at least, figures like marco rubio, who might just possibly be running for president next time around. >> yeah. >> mike lee, the senator from utah, some other figures like that, rob portman to some extent -- >> uh-huh >> -- have begun making speeches that essentially talk about econ

he mentioned, yes, we have in our culture -- we should -- we have to respond if somebody says salam you should respond, and after that the congressmen ask, can we talk more and sit? they didn't have plans to talk to each other, and somebody dropped some chair and talked. so this is very, very tactical problem. very -- we have -- also the sanctions you have. right now many, many people know that i am advocating since 2009 to release the sanctions on the internet freedom and this kind of -- and we had lot of activity. rights now we have much more difficulties to convince the administration to release the sanction to expand on internet in iran. right now mr. rouhani has the big tender is going to have -- i think it's revolutionary project called -- one of his slogans, to expand backbone of internet in iran. we couldn't even until today convince mr. cohen to release sanction and allow all u.s. company to sell this equipment to iranians, to have access to information. so, communication and this -- would be very very important and i hope that u.s. can start and initiate this initiative, and y