or from tehran?eet you too. ♪ >> anthony: yes, hello. >> man: welcome to iran. >> anthony: thank you. >> man: welcome to isfahan. >> anthony: thank you so much. very beautiful. ♪ i'm guessing from the décor this is a former wrestlers' hangout? ♪ ♪ tucked deep in the labyrinth of isfahan's bazaar, the smell of something very, very good. this shop has been here doing the same thing for a hundred years. and based on the line, it must be doing it right. i've had beryani in india. i've had it in uzbekistan. but, there's no question who invented beryani. >> farrokh: no. no way. [ laughter ] >> anthony: beryani. maybe you know the word. though this doesn't look like any beryani i've ever had. minced lamb shoulder, onion, turmeric, cinnamon, mint, and of course, saffron. more valuable than gold by weight. this is delicious. >> farrokh: mmm! really good. >> anthony: isfahan today, the, one of the most visited areas by tourists? >> farrokh: yeah everybody you know, if you come to iran and you don't visit isfah

but i want to ask you about the breaking news on this $400 million cash payout to tehran. the administration is talking about it one way. secretary clinton obviously supports the iran deal. do you see any change in iran, how it's acting result of this iran deal? >> well, first of all, bret, the day began with a complete falsehood being tweeted out by the trump campaign. donald trump tried to suggest that hillary clinton was involved in this $400 million payment to iran. of course, independent fact checkers verified that happened -- that transaction took place a year after she departed. >> so she doesn't support that? >> i'm not saying that. >> why would you say she wasn't part of it? >> during the course of -- >> she supported the iran deal. >> she absolutely did. >> so the administration is saying that's part of this. >> actually, i think this was negotiated separately from the iran nuclear agreement that's what the white house explained today. this payment was the settlement that dates back to 1979 -- >> so she supports it in other words? >> i think that she -- that the

what is interesting is how $400 million secretly made its way to tehran. as a business reporter i can tell you if any company certainly has $400 million that secretly went away or went missing, there would be someone held accountable. i question how $400 million can effectively disappear from the ledger of the united states government. >> that was one of the most interesting parts of the story, getting that much cash is not easy. the us was working with central bank of switzerland and the netherlands, converted cash into euros, put on a plane and moved into tehran, not inconceivable that this could happen without people knowing about it. what is difficult is the white house said this is a normal transaction, nothing on the tour happened here but even still a won't answer, was the rest of this money paid in cash? was it shipped to iran, the remaining $1.3 billion? they won't answer and from the very start when the announcement was made in january the timing of this was did the money, were they waiting for cash to arrive and then let the americans leave the

sky news reporter dominique wymore has that story from tehran. reporter: at the corner of iran's national war center, this rarely seen by the outside world. where they bury the dead from what was so recently a secret war. the rams military involvement in syria. we were given unprecedented access to film the graves and posters celebrating the soldiers sacrifice and talk to mourners. one quietly spoken man showed us pictures of a friend who died in syria and what he said was a holy war. >>. [translated? i don't think there is a different country because defending islam has no borders. they have gone there to defend islam. reporter: hundreds of iranians are thought to have died fighting in syria along with allies from hezbollah, another shiite militia supporting the assad regime. iranian revolutionary guard fighters and special forces are engaged there. a friday prayer in tehran, a senior commander back from syria claimed iran is fighting the islamic state before it threatens them at home. iranians are getting the same message more and more, that th

but i want to ask you about the breaking news on this $400 million cash payout to tehran. the administration is talking about it one way. secretary clinton obviously supports the iran deal. do you see any change in iran, how it's acting result of this iran deal? >> well, first of all, bret, the day began with a complete falsehood being tweeted out by the trump campaign. donald trump tried to suggest that hillary clinton was involved in this $400 million payment to iran. of course, independent fact checkers verified that happened -- that transaction took place a year after she departed. >> so she doesn't support that? >> i'm not saying that. >> why would you say she wasn't part of it? >> during the course of -- >> she supported the iran deal. >> she absolutely did. >> so the administration is saying that's part of this. >> actually, i think this was negotiated separately from the iran nuclear agreement that's what the white house explained today. this payment was the settlement that dates back to 1979 -- >> so she supports it in other words? >> i think that she -- that the

there is a report that the united states paid 100 million to tehran for the release of a cargo plane. complicated story this morning as we say. liz: i'm elizabeth prann in for martha maccallum. the state department claims it was a separate settlement and had nothing to do with the return of americans. bill: donald trump's running mate jumping on this, addressing the report on the campaign trail late last night. >> the administration airlifted $400 million in cash to iran. you know, we cannot have four more years accommodating and apologizing to our enemies or aban dong our friends. america needs to be strong for the world to be safe and donald trump will lead point world stage from strength. liz: chief washington course end ijams rosen is in washington with more. reporter: the funds were drawn from european banks and placed on a cargo plane it was the first insmallment of $1.7 billion to ruin. the four prisoners freed. the obama administration says the payment traces back to an arms deal the u.s. signed with iran shortly before the fall of the shah in 1978-1979. u.s. officials say ira

this hero's welcome, so what transpired between that and now being in prison and then executed in tehran could have been facts that came to light, revelations recently that came up in e-mails. also there was the possibility that the iranian government continued to create a narrative that this person had a public persona of somebody who was coming back to the fold. however, in the background they never really trusted him again. >> so the timing of this, of his execution is very critical? right, i mean, this comes on the heels of the developments this week, the $400 million coming in cash on the plane to tehran, the day that the four americans were released and the optics of all that. >> and the optics, you have to remember the optics in tehran are that this government has made a deal with their longtime enemy, trading for cash the national security of iran. all the people that were released were accused of spying and treason on behalf of the united states. so they had traded cash for iranian national security and they needed now to restore their authority and restore the fact they're vigi

and tehran. as for hillary clinton, she's trying to stay on message talking about jobs and the economy. she visited a local business in denver to praise them for making their line of neckties here in the u.s. she also took the opportunity to swipe at donald trump for producing his line of ties in china. as for the $400 million payment to the iranian regime, clinton's former colleagues at the state department are essentially saying that's old news. >> there's very little news to this. we have been out from the day or the time that the implementation -- or the jcpoa was signed and implementation day and talked about all of these, all the elements, freeing of the detainees, obviously the agreement signing of the reaching implementation day but as well as, you know, resolving this claim. >> clinton is due to have a rally here at a denver area high school. we'll see if she decides to comment on this iran story. it would seem likely she's happy to defer to her colleagues at the white house and also at

look, the $400 million transfer to tehran is just the latest in a seven-year history of obama regime lies and deceits. the obamacare, keep your health care, benghazi, before, during and after, the e-mail cover-up by state and clinton about what happened in benghazi, and of course the isis is now on the ropes again. look, the responsibility to protect people in libya by killing gaddafi has left a terrible caricature of american's foreign policy, and the whopper of all, and he touched on it in his press conference, the existential threat of iran's nuke deal and the nuclear icbm research and development with north korea really isn't what it is. it's looney. >> by the way, we need jobs for jihadis and john kerry equates global warming as big a danger in the world as isis. i guess the thing that stands out to me is imagine a republican president -- imagine that on the same day that hostages are released, they have an unmarked cargo plane that they went to switzerland and other countries to pour in euros and francs and i assume dollars and other currencies, $400 million, and in the dark of

the administration would say there wasn't a banking system, a wire system, that was set up with tehran and that's how they had to move it and they point back to the bush administration that had to move money into iraq to support the early government in iraq. and did so in cash. however, the congress notification part is a big deal. and the timing of this, with the hostage release, obviously looks like it was a quid pro quo. >> many people saying it is suspect. they had reached a deal in january for this $1.7 billion that the iranians said they were owed as a result of an agreement made back in 1979. one of the complaints from one reporter there at the "wall street journal" that broke the story was that there had never been any kind of payment system developed or any kind of payment schedule developed, and so the was just this sort of 1.7 billion hanging out there. nobody knew how or when that money would be paid and those questions still exist. >> that's true. the most interesting part about this particular payment was that at the early part, when this deal was announces -- they talked

they say that president obama planned to pay tehran nearly $2 billion.o settle a dispute from the islamic revolution. >>> vice president, joe biden, will be honored in philadelphia tonight. the city council will present him with the atlas award for cancer research. coming up at noon, the new smart phone you can unlock by looking at it, and later a boy from new jersey fights back against bullies and the motivational message to the boy that picked on him at a park. i'm hillary clinton and i approved this message. who do you talk to for military advice right now? well, i watch the shows. i mean i really see a lot of great - you know, when you watch your show and all of the other shows... while donald trump watched tv, as secretary of state, hillary clinton negotiated a cease fire in gaza. a reduction in nuclear weapons... took on vladimir putin... and stood up against the trafficking of human beings. a steady leader in an unsteady world. with toothpaste or plain water.an their dentures and even though their dentures look clean, in reality they're not. if a

the payment came as washington was lifting international sanctions against tehran under the terms ofast year's nuclear deal. u.s. authorities said they also agreed to solve an arms deal dating back to the 1979 islamic relation with a financial the unorthodox shipment was a result of iran's isolation in the global banking system. >> it could have been done over wire transfers or any other method commonly used to transfer large sums of money. the disclosure of the cash yield has reignited republican criticism of the iranian nuclear agreement, one year after it was finalized. >> that money should never have gone to iran. it continued to fund their illegal and dangerous activities. mr. trump: how stupid are we? reporter: presidential candidate donald trump also lost little time jumping into the dispute, describing the pavement -- the payment as a disgrace. host: mass executions in iran this week. at these 20 sitting presidents were hanged, according to the government. they were accused of involvement in armed attacks between 2009 and 2011. iran is one of the world's top executives. last

but what we know now is that nicer -- there's no way this money could have got ton tehran without theis interesting but doesn't change the fact that sanctions were violated. today it's unlawful to france fer money from the united states to tehran and i want to understand how it's the case our department of treasury did that, who did it. who instructed them to do it and on what authority they took that action. >> i'm glad your asking these questions. i say, how does $400 million suddenly good missing? really. this is after all our money. money that belongs to the united states of america, and suddenly now they're able to move it to iran in an unmarked cargo plane, in foreign currency bills, and nobody questions that? think about it. if you're a business and money goes missing like that, somebody would be held accountable. >> that my aim in asking the questions i want to make sure the right people are held accountable for what took place here. it is inconceivable that somehow after 40 years of litigation, all of a sudden on this day, when hostages are released, we could put $400 million

they were sitting there on the plane waiting to leave, after years of captivity, waiting to leave tehranfor hours, while they were told that they were waiting for another plane to arrive. here is the pastor. >> everyone was ready to leave the country. they said, we are waiting for another plane, and until that plane doesn't come, we never let you go. >> how worried is the clinton campaign that somehow, this washes up on hillary clinton and her stewardship of foreign policy with barack obama and becomes a campaign issue? >> well, frankly, it's not something tmuch in the past wee sort of became a national issue. she has dismissed it as old news, saying this is something that was publicly announced and that she's very supportive of the nuclear deal and thinks that's the right approach and she'll be very touch in enforcing that deal. i think when you talk to clinton advisers privately, they say that this underscores how donald trump is really not fit to be commander in chief. and they point out several things that happen, which is that he essentially made up facts about this deal. there was

foreign military to operate from iran since world war ii and speed the convergence between moscow and tehran. common on thee situation. here is a look at his remarks. use oftart with russia's the iranian air base for syrian missions today. what is your general response to this decision by russia? do you find this concerning? are you worrying about it deepening russia military lines? mr. toner: we are still trying to assess what exactly they are doing, to the extent that they are doing it. fashion use in some iranian airbases. the defense department has spoken to that to some extent. but look. i guess i would say it is unfortunate but not surprising or unexpected. speaks to the continuation of a pattern we have seen of russia continuing to carry out airstrikes. directh iran's assistance. in fact, we have seen this continually, predominantly target moderate syrian operation forces. it is unfortunate. makes morenly difficult what was already a complex situation. it pushes us farther away from what we say we are trying to pursue, a credible nationwide hostilities and a political process in genev

here in tehran, stalin tells roosevelt, you guys go ahead with the d-day. we defeat hitler and with three months, within three months of hitler's defeat, the soviet union will declare war on japan. and help you, the americans, defeat this nation. so it's a very friendly kind of cordial meeting. the next time they get together, it's a little bit different. in february of 1945, the big three meet for a second time. it's known as the yalta conference. this is on the black sea. this time, things have changed because if you'll remember everywhere last class period, by the early part of 1945, the red army is driving deep into germany by now. they've already pushed the nazis out of their country all the way through poland and into germany and they are knocking on the door of berlin. the western allies, the americans, the british, well, we got slowed down a little bit along that way. what was that? >> battle of the bulge. >> battle bulge. that's going to slow us down in our race to get to berlin. they get there first. we talked about that last time. so what i'm get

. >>> senior officials with the justice department objected to sending $400 million to tehran, but theye overruled by the state department. the justice department insists it supported the administration's dealings with iran. the january payment coincided with the release of four american prisoners in iran. the white house denies it was ransom but repayment nor an arms deal that fell through in 1979. now back to "hannity." >>> i got up this morning and i pick up the papers and then i turn on the news and i see $400 million being shipped in cash, being shipped overnight to iran. $400 million. you know, we have a president who, frankly, is incompetent. >> that was gop presidential candidate donald trump at a rally earlier today talking about the hundreds of millions of dollars in cash that the administration sent to the number one state sponsor of terror, iran, earlier this year. here with reaction, author of "the greatest comeback," patrick j. buchanan. $400 million cash, cargo plane, no markings, let's see, francs and euros and dollars, what do you call that, pat? >> i would say, sean, t

did you make a mistake in sending arms to tehran?e course of the arms transfers, which involved the united states providing the arms to israel, and israel in effect selling the arms to representatives of iran, certain monies, which were received in the transaction between representatives of israel and representatives of iran were taken and made available to the forces in central america which are opposing the sandinista government there. >> there was an audible gasp in the room. cynical, jaded reporters who have seen and heard everything gasped out loud. >> there it was, smoking gun proof of the connection between these two programs and the fact that part of this administration was using the money from the sales of arms to iran to fund the contras. >> the shadowy figure we've been hearing about at the center of today's extraordinary revelations is oliver north. his facts, his public testimony is what the country is now waiting for. >> oliver north who worked in the west wing had this idea, well, since we're selling weapons to iran an

there are reports that tehran has sent positive signals about supporting joint action.lobal news, 24 hours a day, powered by 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am nejra cehic. this is bloomberg. francine. francine: emerging-market assets . expectation for u.s. interest rate hikes growth ahead of the speech from janet yellen. germany's second quarter growth coming in line at 0.4%. also supported euro area growth ahead of the brexit vote. let's welcome my guest host, margareta drzeniek-hanouz. she will be with us throughout the show today. thank you so much for joining us . what a pleasure to speak to you. gives a sense, there's so much focus on the fed. there's so much focus on whether interest rates will move this year, september or december. the general trend is we are ready to normalize? margareta: the trend is that we need to do something about this low term that's long-term low-interest rates. we do realize that there is change. the question is when? whether september or december or later. there is a lot of uncertainty with the u.s. election

iran, which the administration maintains was not ransom, even though the exchange coincided with tehran's release of those four american hostages. let's bring in senator tom cotton a member of the armed services committee and fierce critic of president obama's nuclear deal. senator, we've known since the formal announcement of the iran deal last january and release of million as settlement of a old arms deal. so why are you upset about this cash payment to iran this week? >> chris, good to be on with you this morning. at the time i had that 1.7 billion was a ransom itself, but the administration has consistently stonewalled congress and the american people. we don't know the cash payments, for instance. we don't know it was paid for laundered and used for terrorism or support of iran's allies, and we didn't know the department of injures opposed it. i think it's shocking to americans that the government was working likal drug cartel, stacking cash on pallets and flying it an airport. and the obama administration continuing to stonecall on this. people are wondering, you're on the cotton f

three freed americans departed from tehran january 17th farmer hostage told around trish regan earlier this month. >> you're going to be there for 20 minutes, but it took hours and hours. when i asked them why you don't let us go because the plane was fair, pilot was there. they said we are waiting for another plane until the plane doesn't come. we never let them go. lauren: there are reports that he will detain an american man accusing him of fact and against the national security interest. rabin shaking he has allegedly participated in the revolution of two dozen men the government. he suspected of collaborating a tv interview at the u.s. state department. she and he was a resident of san dio for 16 years before he disappeared in june after traveling to iran to visit his sick father. tree into a race to the white house and donald trump criticizing the obama administration's foreign policy at wisconsin town hall event hosted by sean hannity last night. >> we are not taking it to them that we have to take it to them. not too many people cared what i want to do. that was a terrible mess

to the state it insists the money was not a quid pro quo for the hostage release, explaining that tehran ultimately would have received the money, separate from the prisoner release. police in india say 3 people were killed in the same day - by kite string! investigators say all of the incidents involved a kite string is called manja - which uses a synthetic string that is coated with glass. two of the victims were children, who had their heads out of a sunroof when who was suffered a lethal cut to his neck while on a motorbike. officials in india are now moving to ban any sharp kite strings. the blue cut fire burning in southern california has now consumed more than 25-thousand acres. it broke out tuesday east of los angeles. the brush fire is only about four- percent contained. more than 82-thousand residents in san bernardino county have been ordered to evacuate. officials say weather and dry conditions are making the fire unpredictable. more than 15-hundred personel blaze. they are using 178 fire engines, ten air tankers and 17 helicopters. the nation's homeland security secretary to

there is no way this money could have gotten to tehran without the law having been broken.he fact that it was in cash, the way drug runners run deals and mafia run deals, it is interesting. but it doesn't change the fact that they were violated. >> reince priebus says the obama administration should drop the charade saying there's quote a price on the head of every american abroad. >> iran detained at least three americans since the money transfer. they plan to charge one of them with threatening its national security. the state department says it is looking in a it. abby, heather? >> lots of questions there. >> thank you, jackie. >> thanks. >> the state department defending its decision to release 15 more gitmo detainees saying quote very few return to terror. >> detainees have been vetted after what was a rigorous process. is it 100 percent full proof? are there zaire cases of it happening? there have been cases of it but very few. >> how many is very few? according to the pentagon of the nearly 700 detainees released 200 are brought back to the field. that is a raise of

. >> justice department efficiency objected to sending a place loaded with cash to tehran. their objections were overruled by the state department. >> the justice department raised objections. >> of course the justice department objected. it was illegal. >> 30 years ago this was something that would have launched congressional hearings, we would have had convictions, indictments. >> the regime laundered $400 million. >> if a private company had done this, this is called money laundering, the ceo would be in jail right now. >>> illinois congressman peter russ et goes on the record, sir. >> good evening, greta. >> is this transaction, the $400 million cash transaction, which people knew about in january, but gaining more publicity now, illegal? if it is, what are you going to do about it? >> i think it is illegal. the administration is tries to whitewash it saying everybody knew about it. no, nobody knew about it, this is clearly contemporaneous, that is cash for hostages, what it's an illustration is this desperate desire on the part of the obama administration to come up wi

the money was flown to tehran in january.freed from the country. the paper suggests the doj feared the timing would make it look like a ransom payment. but the agency has since come out and said it supported the administration's decision. the white house is also pushing back. >> let me be clear that the united states does not pay ransom. the only people that are making the suggestion are right wingers in iran who don't like the deal and republicans in the united states that don't like the deal. we acknowledged on january 17th there is all kinds of innuendo hurled by people who oppose engagement with iran. the money was a settlement with a failed arms deal made. and a new poll shows hillary clinton with a double-digit lead over trump. she got a post convention bounce and now has a 10-point advantage. both clinton and trump take a five-point dip to 44 and 45% respectively. 64% of respondents say clinton is qualified to serve as commander in chief and trump say the temperament to serve. now back to the show with the best testimo

did the obama administration pay ransom to tehran? retired lieutenant general mike flynn weighs in next. >>> plus president obama spoke about his isis strategy yesterday at the pentagon. dr. sebastian gorka is going to weigh in on that and much more as "hannity" continues. >>> and welcome back to "hannity." earlier this week, president obama once again found himself in the middle of a controversy. this time after "the wall street journal" reported that the obama administration secretly shipped $400 million to iran during this very same time that american hostages were being freed by tehran. yesterday president obama said there was an easy explanation for this whole situation. so take a look. >> this wasn't some nefarious deal. iran had pressed a claim before an international tribunal about them recovering money of theirs that we had frozen. the reason that we had to give them cash is precisely because we are so strict in maintaining sanctions, and we do not have a banking relationship with iran, that we couldn't send them a check. and

when you hear what's coming out of tehran right now, they say this is what we get from dealing with thecans. i'm still wondering what we get out of it. the administration say they basically stopped their nuclear program. but we really even have any evidence of that? >> first of all, we resolved an ongoing financial dispute dating back to before the shah in 1979, that was the cash on the cargo business, we did get that. we did get our americans back. we didn't get bob levinson back, and they nabbed two other americans. turning to the nuclear deal, we don't know exactly whether that's been successful or not. i don't know about whether they've been able to advance their nuclear weapons program. i don't know about that. but we'll find out as time goes on. but as to the money, the cash, and, you know, the one bad thing about giving cash to iran is that they are so quick to sort of hand it out to their buddies like hezbollah and to destabilize the region. and there's no way we can track that money. i don't know if we'll ever know that for sure. >> greta, it is a fact that iranian-funded men a

billions of dollars, the entire iran deal, and these $400 million essentially doing a round trip from tehran to terrorists in the region. >> is it your firm believe that the reason that the white house did not put this in to a treaty, to draft a treaty that spelled this deal out, is that basically to do an end run around congress? >> there is no question that this administration has both legally, and sometimes in violation of the law, circumvented congress, and particularly the senate, in their role. i don't serve in the senate but i respect the fact that treaties are supposed to go through the senate for confirmation. very clearly they tried to call it not that. what, what is going on between iraq and iran -- i'm sorry, iraq and iran where iran is using money to destabilize, if you will, sunnis in iraq, they're using money to bolster bashar assad who only last week used chemical weapons again in aleppo to kill his own people. all of that is being funded by a policy decision that the president really didn't have the authority to do. we had a lot of laws in place designed to limit iran and --

bush, coauthor of "going to tehran, why america must accept the islamic republic of iran."morning. help me out here. >> good morning. >> john kirby says the money was used as leverage. it was not ransom. what is the difference? >> there -- i think it is a distinction without a difference. i mean, there is -- of course, a narrative that it is ransom. that's the worst word you could put on it. but it seems to me that the administration is really ducking something so much more important, which is that in a lot of ways, this was a brilliant masterful feat of diplomacy. they peacefully resolved a crisis situation with a country within -- with which we have been essentially in a cold war, and sometimes a hot war, for 35 years. but because the iran is so vilified in american domestic politics, even the obama administration, even after making a deal with iran, seems very lreticent, very cautious abo about admitting any kind of normal transaction with the iranians. >> whether they admit it or not, couldn't this appear to a regular person, just like me, that they paid to make this ha

and the americans were waiting for wheels up tehran before they released this money to the iranians,this link is now being acknowledged by the administration which it was not just a few weeks ago. >> how did you get this story? i imagine you got some push back from the administration. >> it was -- honestly, when the initial announcement came out in january, like exactly when the americans released that they agreed to pay 1.7 billion at that time even there was a lot of interest why this was being announced at the same time that they were denying any links. it was really just the timing of the announcement of the cash transfer with the prisoner's release that led to us start digging around to see if there was any direct connection. >> of course now they have waited so long to do this, you know, why not come out with this right from the beginning. it's worse now that they lied. tried to hide it. you know, you uncovered it, and now here we are. >> it's confusing because the administration keeps saying there is nothing new here. we were transparent about this transaction from the very be

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he was reunited with his family having receivea hero's welme wh he returned to tehran in 2010. his story at the time was that he had been kidnapped by cia agents, but he resisted spilling the beans on iran's nuclear program. it soon became clear iranian authorities weren't buying his version of events. he disappeared, presumably imprisoned until this weekend's announcement. for giving america, what they called a great satan, vital and secret information. his execution ends what was a murky tale even by the standards of international espionage. he defected to the u.s. in 2009 with secrets about his country's nuclear program, but months later wanted to go home. >> he seems to have gotten cold feet. >> reporter: john is the senior vice prent for the center for strategic and international stories, all of which were about him going back and being with his family in iran. >> reporter: one of those stories claimed he had been kidnapped by the cia while on pilgrimage to mecca and tortured during eight months of captivity. then secretary of state hillary clinton said amiri was his own m

hase are reports tehran sent positive signals about joint action. financeh african minister has received a correspondence from a special police unit and is getting legal advice. that is according to a national treasury spokesperson. the comments came after reports he was to receive a warning statement about possible -- the rand fell to its lowest level against the dollar. global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 600 journalists and 20 countries. manus: glencore reported a drop. to $300 million. let's bring in our senior investment advisor. metals european mining team leader. let's start off with you. we can say, let's look at net income but this is about dividend and debt reduction. those are the numbers that stand out. guest: the surprise is they are talking about reinstating the dividend, possibly next year. the story we were talking about was they had scrapped the dividend. the other big story for today is how much progress they have been able to make cutting debt. you saw the unexpected deal coming out of australia to sell gold assets.

ransom after "the wall street journal" reported that they secretly arranged delivery of the cash to tehran on the same day that four american hostages were released. the white house says the money represented the first installment of a $1.7 billion settlement reached with iran to resolve a decades-old dispute over a failed arms deal. on the campaign trail, hillary clinton downplayed the controversy. >> the white house has addressed this, and i think actually this is kind of old news. it was first reported about seven or eight months ago as i recall. so far as i know, it had nothing to do with any kind of hostage swap or any other tit for tat. >> but donald trump warned that his opponent represents four more years of the same. >> we got our hostages back, and now we find out what we actually paid for the hostages, and it was in cash, which is terrible because that sets a terrible, terrible precedent. and it's just sickening. and you'll have four more years of obama if you elect hillary clinton. >> joining the panel this week, "wall street journal" columnist and deputy editor, dan henninger,

embassy in tehran. >> we were in a very volatile situation for those nine months or so.uch 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 america. people knew that tensions were very high. >> on the morning of november 4th, 1979, ten months into the protest, 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 the chain. >> sickman and another marine make it inside the building just as a group of students makes it through the gate. >> your adrenaline is pumping. but at the same time, you're trying to load your pistol. you're thinking, here is rocky sickman from missouri. this is where it's going to end. >> sickman says he and his colleagues are ready

tehran has never allowed a world power to use its basis.gests tehran and moscow are stepping up cooperation to support syrian president bashar al assad, one of their key allies in the region. >>> another fox news alert for you, reports now saying congress will get the fbi's report on the clinton e-mail server probe this afternoon. it comes as house republicans accuse the democratic nominee of perjury, alleging clinton lied to congress while under oath. the house gop sending a letter to the department of justice, laying out specifically where they believe fbi findings contradict clinton's testimony about her e-mail setup. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is live in washington with more. good afternoon, catherine. >> reporter: thank you, sandra. republicans released a video contrasting clinton's 2015 testimony with the fbi director's news conference in july where he recommended against criminal charges. on a private server used specifically for government business, there are clear discrepancies. >> there's only one server a

here in tehran, stalin tells roosevelt, you guys go ahead with the d-day. we defeat hitler and with three months, within three months of hitler's defeat, the soviet union will declare war on japan. and help you, the americans, defeat this nation. so it's a very friendly kind of cordial meeting. the next time they get together, it's a little bit different. in february of 1945, the big three meet for a second time. it's known as the yalta conference. this is on the black sea. this time, things have changed because if you'll remember everywhere last class period, by the early part of 1945, the red army is driving deep into germany by now. they've already pushed the nazis out of their country all the way through poland and into germany and they are knocking on the door of berlin. the western allies, the americans, the british, well, we got slowed down a little bit along that way. what was that? >> battle of the bulge. >> battle bulge. that's going to slow us down in our race to get to berlin. they get there first. we talked about that last time. so what i'm get

it took place at the same time american prison released by tehran. as james rosen reports... the obama administration continues to insist... it wasn't a ransom payment. secretary of state john kerry added his voice to the chorus of obama administration officials denying the u-s paid iran in exchange for american prisoners. kerry says: ".. the united states of america does not pay ransom and does negotiate ransoms with other countries and we're not doing that now. it's not our policy." the white house arranged for an million in hard foreign currency to be delivered to iran on or about the same day that the regime released five americans as part of a prisoner swap. the administration maintains the payment was part of a one-point seven billion dollar settlement over longstanding iranian claims to regime assets used for an arms deal back in the 19-70s. kerry says: "..it was a purchase, and when the revolution took place in iran that money was frozen. they had paid us in a bank account. it's iranian money." still - not everyone is buying the administration's story that the timing