it is getting worse. >> what you think they are saying in tehran? >> i think the survey will have a sobering affect. >> do you think mark is correct? >> they are cocoon, which i do not believe. we have the support of the arab spring. the government against us no longer exists. we have one big thing in common and this is the islamic tie. this is a big mistake to interpret iran's policy as playing the sectarian role. it just so happens that in the other countries, they are playing it. the iranians never talk about the shiite power. >> are they afraid of the? >> -- are they afraid of it? >> he doesn't see himself as a shiite leader pushing for shiite hegemony. if we look at bahrain, the first couple of weeks of the uprising, the iranians kept quiet. then they started making statements and supporting and so on. they look at it as an internal issue. they did not want to play with fire. >> picked up on that briefly. we have to get to the audience. >> one reason i cannot believe the iranian city in tirana are not happy with this poll is because iranians fa

produced the views off for the war should be iran they all contributed to the success of the tehran summit. yes we are opposed to the way you're running towards managed the way they are managing the already yes you have said this was so firstly we don't want to have any quarrel with anybody we don't want to start war with anybody but. we are against their ways because they're just they just want to serve their own interests pulling. their military might you know we have said it loud and clear we are against this and we do believe that the vast majority of the nations in the word are with us agree with us. mr rouhani is the newly elected president all around you know him personally what do you think of him. who is he is the president elect of iran his is respected by everyone and everybody will help him. so that he will be successful in managing the first of the country if the candidate you were supporting was disqualified from the presidential race do you think the outcome of the elections would be different. that's definitely. why didn't you contest like you said you would his disqualific

both are based in tehran. and according to intelligence out of europe, both are trying to buy lab equipment in the west that could be used to produce biological weapons. vaghari will argue in court that the equipment was for iranian professors who work in dubai. so you think the whole premise of the u.s. case is faulty. >> doesn't make sense. >> david kris is the head of the national security division at the justice department. he says most middlemen aren't in it for politics. >> they're people who i think primarily are motivated by profit. >> profit. they want the money. >> and they're adaptable and intelligent, and we have to adapt to keep pace with them. >> the vaghari case, he seems like such a low level guy. he operated out of his basement. he had no money. why would the iranians go to him? >> the iranians will exploit an opportunity if they see one, whether the guy is, you know, sort of some kind of fancy pants international arms dealer with a mink coat and a private jet, or whether he's some guy operati

if you ask me is tehran changing tomorrow? >> john: but they're blowing up the martin case america is a land where black teens can be shot for skittles. capitalism shown in country that helps gay people, ikea that had a commercial with a gay couple. >> that's still causing an outroar, but applaud them for doing it. >> john: they knew they were going to have controversy. >> were they a real family? >> john: i believe they were. we're talking about boycotting the olympics in china. lindsey graham, it has nothing to do with you, maybe a little something. stick around. compelling true stories. >> jack, how old are you? >> nine. >> this is what 27 tons of marijuana looks like. (vo) with award winning documentaries that take you inside the headlines, way inside. (vo) from the underworld, to the world of privilege. >> everyone in michael jackson's life was out to use him. (vo) no one brings you more documentaries that are real, gripping, current. >> john: vladimir putin of russia is pretty conflicted these day. he loves homoer rottic

. >> the structures of power that exist are working to tehran and to extend their capability at the expense of the freedom of the public. the nsa does not limit itself to foreign intelligence. it collects all communications that transit the united states. there are literally no ingress or egress point in the u.s. where communication or exit -- can enter or exit without being collected and analyzed. it is not clear what his next move will be. >> he is not just gone to ground, he simply disappeared. on june 23, edward snowden disembarked at moscow airport from hong kong. after the u.s. revoked his passport, he was traveling on documents issued by the ecuadoran government facilitated by julian assange. today's letter, the u.s. called on russia to expel snowden. the kremlin refused. evo morales spent on the ground in his jet. maduro offered asylum. it has not been seen in public since his arrival. now it would appear that the nsa analyst has become an embarrassment to the kremlin. vladimir putin, a former kgb agent, expressed his disdain for the whistle blower and colorful language. dealing wit

tehrans do that. tyrants are afraid of their own people.they control them because they're afraid of being overthrown. >> basically stand-up is a rally in an egyptian square for money. >> stephen: answer my question. who were the people that you liked? >> i loved alan king, richard pryor. anybody that came out and stood there and just talkd in a series of jokes, i just thought who are these people who can do this? cosby. i love cosby. >> stephen: my favorite. very funny fellow. bill cosby is a very funny fellow, right. >> cosby and carlin and robert klein. >> stephen: are you satisfied with being jerry seinfeld? >> well, if i'm not, i'm going to need some serious help because that guy... >> stephen: some of the performers, some performers aren't satisfied with being themselves. they always have some sort of need to be something else or to prove themselves as a performer. >> well, i would say, you know, that really is the difference between comedians and people who play other people. come on. stay calm. >> stephen: but you're like the biggest

standing up to iran's mullahs, naghmeh abedini tells us about the fight to free her husband from a tehran jail. ♪ and welcome, everyone, to christian world news. i'm wendy griffith. george thomas is on vacation. u.s. president obama is reaching out to africans this week, tige touring senegal and south africa, where he is meeting with the country's business leaders. the christians are hoping obama will speak out against increased acts of persecution against them. gary lane brings us this look at some recent incidents. >> reporter: the allure of beautiful beaches and tranquil ocean waters draw 100,000 tourists to the i'll of zanzabar each year. but this east african island, influenced by islamist extremism has a troubling past. several hundred years ago, when arab traders first came to this island, they were quick to enslave the local population. fast forward to 2013, there are no longer slaves here, but today christians are suffering. churches have been attacked, and christian leaders threatened. last february, a catholic priest was killed outside this church. >> i heard a crowd of people

nhk world, tehran. >>> japanese held an upper house election over the weekend. on monday, investors welcomed the victory by the liberal democratic party and its coalition partner. for what's happening today, ai uchida joins from us the business desk. ai, good morning. >> good morning. investors may be looking at overseas data. u.s. stock prices actually managed to show modest gains. investors did see lackluster housing data and some weak corporate earnings. the dow jones gained less than 2 points to end at 15,545, weighed by disappointing earnings from mcdonald's. for more on the markets here in japan, let's go to the tokyo stock exchange. how are the markets starting off this morning? >> good morning. we're looking at a quite negative start at the moment. here at the opening levels for tuesday, july 23rd. the nikkei is down 0.36% at 14,605. the broader topix is lower by 0.31%. japanese stocks closed higher on monday. investors were encouraged as japan's ruling coalition scored a victory in the upper house election on sunday. now, we may want to keep an eye on r

a wolf in sheep's clothing and yahoo also wants are ratcheting up of sanctions on tehran and is prepared for military measures if indeed they don't. and to iraq where a wave of blasts have killed more than forty people on sunday alone in one incident three bombs exploded near the shiite party headquarters in the city of claiming at least eight lives the death toll has now surpassed three hundred in the month of july as iraq is swept by sectarian violence that's continued to escalate despite the ramadan. the residents of the district of london could soon be out on the streets authorities say people living in social housing blocks need to be relocated because the council can't afford to keep them. gauging reaction. it is said to be his castle but nowadays living in social housing here in the london borough of lumber of fighting a fierce legal battle to save their homes if you. have a cease fire an old negotiate a treaty which. sort of recognize julian and his neighbors live in what's been dubbed short life housing they used to be thousands of such chains in lamberth now there are just seve

president rouhani a wolf in sheep's clothing the time jaco also owns a ratcheting up of sanctions on tehran and is prepared for military measures if they don't. and a wave of blocks across iraq killed more than forty people on sunday and alone in one incident three bombs exploded near us policy had or has in the city of claiming at least eight lines their death toll has now surpassed three hundred in the month of july as a rockets fired by sectarian violence it's continued to escalate displaying the ramadan fast. that's coming your way think it won't the pads in the wild pad or in globalized middle class downs that is that this question is in constant with me still about. or remember those old wacky communist countries who constantly boost their numbers to make themselves feel better or who cares if stores are in the end this piece of paper a one hundred thousand tons of potatoes that is good enough for me well now we are in a new age of technology but the same lying to make yourself feel good is still going strong it just moved over to the capitals world the u.s. state department's bureau

president hassan rouhani a walls and ships clothing netanyahu also warns rushing out of sanctions on tehran and is prepared for military measures if they don't walk. away with longs across iran killed more than forty people on sunday alone in one incident three bombs exploded near the party headquarters in the city of basra claiming at least eight lives the death toll has now surpassed of three hundred in the month over july as iraq is swept by sick terror and violence that's going to need to escalate despite the ramadan fast. and up next to me have a very special part of russia's ministry that's just ahead. or remember those old wacky communist countries who constantly boost their numbers to make themselves feel better or who cares if stores aren't the end this piece of paper a one hundred thousand tons of potatoes that is good enough for me well now we're in a new age of technology but the same lying to make yourself feel good is still going strong it just moved over to the capitals world the u.s. state department's bureau of international information programs has spent six hundred thirty

hostages taken in tehran in 1979, embassy and marine barracks bombed in 1983. saudi arabia in 1996. >> she essentially said to understand benghazi, you have to understand a series of terror attacks that had occurred before. is she right? >> she is certainly right in terms of understanding the ideology that fuels these attacks. >> andrew mccarthy, a former federal prosecutor who won a conviction of the blind shaikh that plotted to bomb new york city tunnels and landmarks in the 1990s. >> the motivating cause of the attacks, it is us against them. we are the them. >> reporter: the difference between the obama administration and its critics is the lesson that each has learned. through the '70s, '80s, and '90s, the united states dealt with terrorism as a crime. >> what we found, we were repeatedly attacked, and attacks became more audacious over time. >> reporter: and the result was the first september 11th attack. >> reporter: john boulton is a fox news contributor. >> it was that attack, tragically, that made us realize that we were in a war. and that the way to

wonders where he could end up i mean these list of options is growing very very short i understand that tehran is nice this time of year maybe north korea but short of those two rather unattractive options i think really he's running out of road he's clearly a man without a country he's passport been revoked he can't stay in the russian airport indefinitely i'm sure they're going to run out of duty free pretty soon so at some point he's got to leave and go somewhere and wherever he ends up will be almost certainly somewhere that the united states has a full extradition treaty with and which will see him return to some point i'm sure the arms i'm sorry dr boyce people said the same exact thing about julian assange and he's still holed up in the ecuadorian embassy that's not too far away from you here and and it's and it's quite clear that the ecuadorian government is quite embarrassed by that and he can't stay there indefinitely at some point he will have to face the music you know whether it's today tomorrow or at some point in a future i'm sure you'll agree he cannot stay in the ecuadorian em

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benghazi joins us a long list of tragedies for america hostages taken in tehran in 1979, barracks bombed1983. kobart tours in 1996. >> she essentially said to understand benghazi you have to understand a series of terror attacks that occurred before, is she right? >> she is right in terms of understanding the ideology that fuels these attacks. >> andrew mccarthy is a former federal prosecutor to won a conviction of the blind swhaik in 1990s. >> islamic supremacism is what is behind these attacks. >> the difference between obama administration and its critics the lesson it has heard through that history. >> through the 70s, 80s and 90s united states dealt with terrorism as a crime. what we found is that we were repeatedly attacked and the attacks became more you a diashs. >> and the result was the first september 11th attacks. >> john bolt ton is a fox news contributor. >> it was that attack that made us realize that we were in a war. the way to deal with international terrorism is way to treat as an active aggression by a hostile power. >> but the rise of barack obama was part of an emph

this decision was taken at the very highest level in tehran.s at that restaurant a couple miles from the white house. frankly, i'm not sure why again they haven't been held to account. >> what was the one mistake they made? >> i think going to the drug cartel ahead of a dea agent, a memo to themself, don't do that anymore. they got caught in the act. >> reporter: mattis was disappointed in obama's weak response. >> when we caught them in the act, we had a beleaguered attorney general stand up and give a legal argument that, frafrgly, i couldn't understand. >> reporter: earlier this year, on iranian-american used car salesman pleaded guilty to plotting to kill the bed and was sentenced to 25 years in prison. mattis wanted more. >> i don't know why it wasn't dealt with more strongly. >> reporter: he said iran is getting close to developing a nuclear bomb. >> how close is iran to a nuclear weapon? >> i'd say one year. >> one year? >> one year if they chose to. i don't believe he's made the decision. if he does, i'm not completely confident that we

morsi, the muslim brotherhood guy, the first thing he did in office is he went to tehran, he went to see president ahmadinejad. mortal enemy of them. at that time, we're not sending you more relief aid. the two top guys were close to saudi arabia. general al si si spent time there as a defense attache. i was fascinated to say the first country that recognized the new interim government was the saudis and the first one to really show up with big money were the saudis. united arab emirates and kuwait. they're trying to get them enough time, buy time for them to get their act together. i don't know that egypt ever can. but at least they now have a chance. >> sky news arabia affiliated with fox reporting that there's an emergency session of the leading muslim brotherhood figures from across the region, including europe. >> right. >> hamas as well. to find out what they can do to reverse the egyptian political direction. what do you make of it, what's the likelihood? >> i think it's an act of desperation. you're always somebody who talks about is the economy stupid, look at the economic s

>> guest: going back twice to tehran, washington, but don't know the total number of tons but hundreds of hours. >> host: on the phone was able to talk? >> sometimes on the phone. >> three minutes left with our guests, here's a little bit from "the guns at last night: the war in western europe, 1944-1945". this is from 1945. time magazine had catalogued many rumors about the president's health, he had been secretly rushed to the mayo clinic, three psychiatrists attended him when he traveled that he was anemic. the truth was worse, not for decades would it be revealed that his blood pressure climbed from 128 over 82 to 260 over 150 in december of 1944. in the past year he had shed 30 pounds. he cannot taste food. an examination by cardiologists complained of gross discoloration of his skin, lips and nail beds with labored breathing, abdominal stress and an enlarged fluid in the long all leading to a diagnosis of congestive heart failure. he had indeed been anemic from chronic bleeding, hemorrhoid's exacerbated by his inability to stand or walk. he suffered symptoms of a mild heart attac

on the stand was his athletic tehraner who calls zimmerman a nice and pleasant guy, but a guy who was large and overweight, physically soft, who didn't know how to throw a punch after a year of physical training. >> if you scale off on a scale of one, you're going to do a lot more work to get to ten. usually when you see an accomplished athlete when they come into the gym, they've already had a history as a child of all kind of athletics they've been exposed to. if you have an adult that hasn't had that type of background exposure, they're going to have a bit more work and probably are not going to get to the same degree of accomplishment that someone who that that childhood background has had. >> on that scale of one to ten, when george zimmerman first got to you, what numbers would you assign to his ability? >> .5. >> less than a one? >> yes. >> let's bring back or panel. at one point, jeff, during the testimony pollack actually stepped down from the stand to show a grappling move on the defense attorney. i just want to show this to our viewers. >> so a mounted position, i was in a

months as a political hostage in iran, i was held in solitary confinement after being imprisoned in tehran after just two months, my mind began to slip pre-at i would spend large portions of my day crouched down on my hands and knees by a small slot in my cell door, listening for any sounds that might distract me from the terror of my isolation. i suffered from insomnia, emotional detachment and violent panic attacks. i began screaming and beating at the walls until my knuckles bled. perhaps the most unbearable mental torture was not knowing when i would see my family again. sometimes whirring about my mother would keep me from sleeping for days at a time. it was eight months before they even let me call her and tell her i was alive. even then the phone call lasted about five minutes. >> that was sarah shourd describing iran, her imprisonment there. shane, as you go from your imprisonment in iran to the prison system in california, the about what you find, similarities and differences in the significance of the strike today. >> the conditions in the arabian prison are awful. we were at a p

snowden will probably end up in the murder capital of the word, venezuela, possibly tehran, iran wheree dancer girlfriend may not want to join him. there is poetic justice in the world nobody wants edward snowden. >> bill: his life is over. merkel and the french are all mad that snowden said the u.s. is eavesdropping on you and all of that we both know the colonel and i we are in this world. canada and all of that. we want to know everybody is doing. listening in on this. french aren't eaves drops on us. it's a show. it's politics. >> >> perform brotherhood not doing a good job. morsey, they want him out after a year. why? why the egyptians mad at morsey? >> well, because morsey screwed up everything he could screw up. this is really wonderful news. it's the best news out of the middle east in the last couple years, actually, because the muslim brotherhood in egypt, out of power so long thought they saw the chance to grab power forever. unlike the creepy islam islamsing of turkey wouldn't talk to the opposition. became bullies overnight and the people rejected him. the economy is in th

virtual world they look like half a billion people this gives a serious challenge to the regime in tehran how they account 500 million voices online coming from the same 72 million people? >> also the possibility of the over reaction. three people can sound like 10,000 people and that is a threat to use the dictators. so the problem is you have these three people and it now all of a sudden you have a real problem because they have friends there you have created a resistance movement that did not exist before. >> they can also use the new ways and online activity to hide. saw all the voices can benefit the movement that tried touse day outside. >> how important are the digital networking technologies? >> we argue in the book in the future the revolution of the easier to start the harder to finish that technology is very useful for forming weak ties online it is very good for organizing around the lowest common denominator to get the dictator out of power but when they can't do is create leaders overnight or create institutions that are not there in the challenge is technology increases exp

the crisis, the students lead their american hostages blindfolded out of the american embassy in tehranade them before photographers. for months leading up to the crisis, iran has been in political turmoil. the western supported shah of iran is ousted after the islamic revolution in february. >> at the time, barry rosen is a press attache with the u.s. embassy in ter rahn. >> we were in a very volatile situation for those nine months or so. and much of it came to a head when the shah was permitted into the united states for medical reasons. >> mobs of students are protesting outside the u.s. embassy. >> imagine a quarter million people chanting death to american. people knew that tensions were very high. >> on the morning of november 4, 1979, 10 months into the protests, rocky sickman, a 22-year-old marine security guard, gets a distress call that iranian students are storming the embassy grounds. >> over the gate came these individuals. i took off running back to the main embassy building. >> many of these students started to shake the main gate and to climb over or use cutters to cut

virtual world they look like half a billion people this gives a serious challenge to the regime in tehran how they account 500 il voices online coming from the same 72 million people? >> also the possibility of the over reaction. three people can sound like 10,000 people and that is a threat to use the dictators. so the problem is you have these three people and it now all of a sudden you have a real problem because they have friends there you have created a resistance movement that did not exist before. >> they can also use the new ways and online activity to hide. saw all the voices can benefit the movement that tried touse day outside. >> how important are the digital networking technologies? >> we argue in the book in the future the revolution of the easier to start the harder to finish that technology is very useful for forming weak ties online it is very good for organizing around the lowest common denominator to get the dictator out of power but when they can't do is create leaders overnight or create institutions that are not there in the challenge is technology increases expectat

strengthening these measures will help our diplomatic efforts to encourage tehran to become a responsible member of the international community and once and for all abandon its pursuit of nuclear weapons. again, i want to thank the gentleman from california, the gentleman from new york and the rest of the foreign affairs committee for their hard work on this issue, and i urge my colleagues to support this legislation. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia yields back. the gentleman from california reserves. the gentleman from minnesota is recognized. mr. ellison: can i inquire as to the time remaining? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from minnesota has 12 1/2 minutes remaining. the gentleman from new york has 6 1/2 minutes remaining. and the gentleman from california has five minutes remaining. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia is recognized for three minutes. mr. moran: i thank the gentleman from minnesota, my friend. mr. speaker, 29 prominent policy makers and experts who understand iran and international relations includes former ce

the way we did nothingle to avenge or even to truly get our people out of tehran after that act of war. and i love the leadership of ronald reagan but in 1983, he had a democratic caucus -- congress and poem who worked with him, when i blamed him for withdrawing from bay rut after the attack, that showed weakness. he said the democrats made clear he didn't have a whole lot of choice. but that gave a sign of weakness. u.s.s. cole, we basically did nothing. nobody paid as they should have. and if we're going to protect this nation, we have to take care of things at home. stop all the waste, fraud, and abuse, so that people who truly need help get it, and those who can work have the opportunity to work. not with some do-nothing government program, but with a real job where you make real money and you accomplish real things because one other thing obamacare is doing is a disaster to our american friends, i've been told by people, look, i used to work full-time at mcdonald's and now because of obamacare they cut me to part-time so now i don't have the benefits i had before and i have to go

where only regime blessed candidates could run for office and some sign that the merchant class in tehran is no longer satisfied with this government. good things to come. there was an attempt at a revolution in the obama administration sat on the sidelines. these are things we should be encouraging because they advance u.s. interests. egypt run by and accountable democracy would be good and iranian regime, government that was accountable to its people and not one that supports terrorism and tries to make her life hard for the u.s. would be great for world security. charles: maybe you could argue with iran that we kind of did some of the things you talk about, tried to stoke the animosity within the country, is it politically correct thinking about politics, can we say that we should nudge of little bit more? should we have the cia and these countries pushing buttons with in the nation's? things we did in the past to topple people, leaders we didn't like, can we go back to those tactics? >> we should be very careful what we do. the cia has basically gotten out of that business, pushed out

. >> congress could slap iran with tough new sanctions this week as tehran show no signs of slowing down the nuclear program. house voted on wednesday in a bill that seeks to squeeze the iran's oil exports slashing output by one million barrels day within one year. the bill is expected to pass easily but it won't become law right away because the senate has to pass its version of the legislation. >> kelly: keeping a focus on the nation's capital, president obama is looking to turn the spotlight away from the scandals and back to the economy. she actually heading to capitol hill this week to meet with democrats to discuss it. doug mckelway is live in washington. doug, it seems republicans are pushing back against accusations that are investigating the phony scandals? >> they are. president obama has used that phrase to suggest republicans are distracting the american people from the urgent business at hand to get the economy faster. here he is. >> with this endless parade of distractions and political posturing and phony scandals, washington has taken the eye off the ball. i'm here to say

we saw that in the green movement in tehran, we saw it in the original arab spring, so they're doingng that's counterproductive. it's going to make it very difficult to claim this is a different kind of non-coup coup, and it won't work. millions will find ways of getting out on the street. the military has to think seriously about how do they get these people to peacefully go back home. if there's a sing the challenge, how do we get them to peacefully go home. >> what was impressive to me was that when if the egyptian general came out. made his announcement, he surrounded himself with the leader from the main muslim university, a leader of the christians in egypt mohammed elbaradei. a secularist, and others, nobodiy the muslim brother, but gave himself a little cloak, support, if you will, from various interest groups. >> he has a broad base of support. >> the general? >> the general does it is reaching out to both religious thor and civilian authorities. it the problem was that morsi overreached, or at least the brotherhood overreached. they tried to move too fast, started xhanging