how long had your brother been the bureau chief at "the washington post" at that point last august? >> about 18 months since he had joined the post. before that he had been a freelancer there for many years. since about 2007 full time. >> and he is an american born -- is he american born? >> yes. we were both born here right in san francisco. he grew up here. moved over there in 2007. he had been going back and forth a little bit before that. >> did he have a dual citizenship in iran? yeah my dad was born in iran he moved here in 1959. the iranians consider us both iranian citizens they don't recognize our american citizenship even though that's where we were born. >> which is what they have done to amir heck mattie, he was hekmati. the fact that he was here hostile to the government. your brother has been charged. do you know what he was charged with. >> found out four charges. first charge was espionage. second one collaboration with hostile powers. third one was circulating propaganda. fourth one was collecting and disseminating information. >> do you know the condition of your br

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the "washington post" should always -- here is the "washington post".after the clintons, we just throw that away? >> of course not. >> the "new york times" reported on the claims. let's throw that away. no harold. >> no then you tie them to mcdonnell and menendez. that's not fair. >> what did i say? what i said was -- >> i think it's unfair to draw those kind of comparisons. >> you can keep saying it all you want to or you can let me tell you what i actually said or we'll get the tape. what i said was if you look at all of the information that we have, at this point of the story, and compare to all the information we had in bob menendez's case in new jersey that we have right now at the beginning of that, or bob mays' story years ago in congress who got thrown in jail for putting something on the house floor because he went golfing in scotland, or if you look at let's say bookb mcdonnell who got a rolex watch and a couple of other things and his big offense was he held a reception in the virginia governor's mansion for a diet supplement and he's going t

stories appeared yesterday in "the new york times" and then "the washington post." "new york times" says the nbc's internal investigation expanded to include a half dozen new examples of exaggerations, including when he was in egypt's tahrir square. he was there, but apparently he said he was on a balcony and in another instance he said he was down there looking somebody in the eye. "the washington post" then says there are 11 instances of exaggerations. nbc now looking at it. now, this followed a briefing for a top-level nbc officials, including steve burke, who runs the place for comcast. what does it say that these stories were leaked from within nbc? >> howie, absolutely you and i have done this so long that i have no doubt, those stories are not out unless nbc wants them out. that's a given. the only question is to what end are they doing it? i can't think of any good end for brian williams with those stories being leaked. and, by the way, if you have all of these instances, how in the heck do you bring back -- remember i was like the night it happened i said i

joining us now, michael fletcher reporter for "the washington post." he has lived in baltimore for more than 30 years and wrote about living in that city for "the washington post." i want to get both of your reactions to the positive turn that baltimore took today. i promised the audience at the beginning of the program that i was going to show a lot of that imagery. that was in the expectation that we wouldn't be rolling through all of this live coverage necessarily, of what is going on. but each of you, please your reactions to how this city has turned the corner today. >> well to me really since yesterday it's been the baltimore i know and the city that i've chosen to live in you know if i choose to live elsewhere. what we saw on monday i think it was -- it was something that sort of spun out of control. but the baltimore i'm seeing now is kind of the city the more positive city of neighborhoods where people come together. but that said i don't know that we're out of the woods. i think there's a lot of concern about where this investigation is going

this is a quote from the "washington post." it reads, "fbi experts systemically testified to the near certainty of matches of crime scene hairs to defendants backing their claims by citing incomplete or misleading statistics drawn from their casework. in reality, there is no accepted research on how often hair from different people may appear the same." jonathan gilli a,am former fbi

the author of 12 number one national non-fiction best sellers and an associate editor at the washington post where he's been on staff for 43 years. he's bob woodward. this is overheard. [applause] >> i guess we can't fire him now. >> indianapolis we can't fire him now. [laughter] the might i win an emmy. >> being on the supreme court was an improbable dream e dream. >> it's hard work. >> there's no freedom and it's journalist that is provide that information. >> a window rolls down, saying, hey! he goes to 11:00. [laughter] >> bob woodward, welcome. >> thank you,. >> nice to have you here. >> nice to be here. >> let's start with syria, if you don't mind. today, the president gave a speech to the u.n. general assembly. sounded like it could have been given by george w. bush or maybe john mccain. maybe too conservative. but two weeks ago you gave a speaker e speech after the am herself college and questioned whether the president is two enough. is he tough enough now? >> we'll see, when i did the first book on obama's about his afghan war decision making when i interviewed him, stepped through

so fox news channel, "new york times" and "the washington post"? running with this guy's thesis and an arrangement they made with him in advance of the book being published? we reached out to the news outlets to get information, they told us they stand behind the agreements. they told us there was no payments involved or no financial aspect. they said they were taken material from the book to further their own reporting on the clintons, but it is strange or at least striking, given this particular author's history with inaccurately reporting things in the past, but reporting them in a way that is appealingly exclam tory, and he gets stuff in print and the outlets have to correct him later. while "new york times" and "the washington post" seem to be working with the author, there's an effort on the other side to -- to undercut the author's credibility, i guess we could say? to promote this guy's past? to put this guy in context? it's headed up by a media watch dog on the left called media matters. we have more on that fight next. stay with us. wish

would you see in the press so many times that you don't see in washington post. nd how these people live with themselves writing these stories. not to mention the fact that a paper like the post today that is so critical that is more successful. people start over time recognizing you contrast the washington post, maybe we should subscribe. they are going downhill, and ideological. >> host: next call from robert in cape coral, fla.. you are on with ronald kessler. >> guest: thanks to c-span. -- nice to get topics delivered. i was in college during the nixon administration and very unaware perhaps the first attack on the constitution. i should like to comment on that for a little bit and then come back to the present where i hear obama being called the worst attack on the constitution we ever had. >> guest: my reference to the constitution, retired special prosecutor, over him but a special prosecutor, he instructed money in order to cover up what nixon didn't want so all these activities, not to mention an actual break-in at democratic headquarters. all these thing

first, let's talk about these new allegations that have surfaced overnight in "the washington post." the idea that there was this prisoner in the back of the van with freddie gray who believes that gray was trying to injure himself. >> john, this impression he gets from riding six blocks, six blocks between where he was picked up, at the tail end of this ride, to the police station, and where he is taken to jail, this is the length of time they're together. and it's hard to know where he gets this impression that he was trying to harm himself. he can't see him. there's a metal divider between the two men. and we should also mention that this prisoner is still in jail, when he was interviewed by police investigators, according to this document, obtained by "the washington post." so there's a lot of added questions here, really, and it really just adds to the picture that, you know, what the state attorney's office will have to deal with here is a very complicated case. a lot of people made some judgments based on the few seconds of video that we've been showing, and certainly the publ

host: reid wilson of "the washington post." what is the cell that the obama administration estimate -- has to make to a congressman like him? yes guest: we have seen a different tact. he referred to china a number of times when he was talking in this roundtable a month ago. roofs who are largely going to be supportive of the trade bill is this anyway. last week though, he sat down with a large group of supporters organizing for america, a political winning an outgrowth of its 2008 in 2012 campaign. he talked about how important this was for american workers and how good it was going to be, and by the way, he criticized a number of his opponents on the left, the people who are supposed to be his closest let allies -- allies, like msnbc or lisbeth worn, and he said the arguments were dishonest and not telling the truth about what was going on. it was a very different pitch to a little obvious been to a business obvious. he does not need any more support from them because he has got all he is going to get. on the other hand though

tell us about jason and how did he start working with the washington post?> he went to iran ten years ago. he is now both dual american and iranian citizenship. that was not the case in the past. he was born and raised here in the united states and in the san francisco area. and he was interested in the iranian heritage and went there to learn about it and decided to stay and started doing reporting and we retained him as a correspondent in 2012. >> his stories as i looked through them is lifestyle pieces and did an interesting story about baseball. why do you think he was targeted and arrested? >> mostly he wrote about lifestyle and culture in iran and reflect the daily life in that country. we have no idea why he was targeted. it is a complete mystery to us. there is of course a lot of speculation as to the reasons, but the truth is that we don't know. and that's one of the things that makes it so concerning. we have had no access to him and the iranian judicial system is not forth coming and not presented any evidence yet. we are left to speculate. >> tel

"the washington post" calls the spying allegations absurd. and he has been held in tie ran for more than eight months. >>> we are still working right now to learn why a maryland police chief is stepping down this morning. the delmarva daily times reports that the princess ann chief scott keller has decided to retire. princess ann county is where eight people died of carbon monoxide poisoning less than a week ago and keller has led the department for the past eight years. city officials are not commenting. >>> in a few hours the d.c. mayor will face questions over her spending plans for the district. she's testifying at a budget oversight hearing. and bowser is calling for the sales tax and parking tax increases. her plan cuts higher education spending as well. the plan includes more money for homeless services, school modernization and the streetcar program. >>> caught on camera, man holes explode. one after the other. after the other. what caused the metal covers to fly high up into the air? >>> and new developments in the case of a maryland

. >>> and a "washington post" reporter sits in a tehran jail for nine months and waits four months for a judge to hear his case. now he's charged with espionage. what's the paper doing about it this morning? we'll talk about it live in the cnn newsroom. good morning, i'm carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. for hillary clinton the question never seemed to be if she would run, but when. that answer came sunday. >> everyday americans need a champion and i want to be that champion. so you can do more than just get by. you can get ahead. and stay ahead. because when families are strong, america is strong. >> now fising the first full day of her new campaign she is on the road and in the flesh. even surprising motorists at a gas station in pennsylvania. it was a pit stop on the 1,000 mile drive to her first event in iowa. later today, senator marco rubio tries to wrestle away the political spotlight with his own announcement. he will become the third republican to formally join the race and what is sure to be a jam packed gop field. we're covering both candidates and their impa

i will read you a bit of a washington post op ed.ed why is baltimore celebrating the beating of a child. she writes the celebration of graham reflects the belief that black youth are problematic and criminal and out of control and the video supports the idea that black fathers are absent. >> as i said there are many women's voices they have all been saying beating our children will not stop the police from killing them. tracy ellis ross this is so complicated for me and i have so many feelings and so so many of us there were black women who are one generations removed from that that don't see that as mom of the year and -- >> but the idea that black mothers can save their children i mean because we often here black athletes say they think their mother was keeping them from trouble. and she just played into that stereotype. >> well it's also part of a legacy right? there are men who are buried who were beat and there are men in prison who were beat. freddy gray his mom might have beat him, too. there is no evidence to say beating my k

i was running the boston herald for three years and then "the washington post" for 15 years as an investigative reporter. >> host: why did you leave? >> guest: i left to right books. my second book i was still on leave from the post, he was the world's preeminent and we talked about this back and forth and eventually he invited me to a birthday party in spain along with brooke shields and sean connery and i thought hey, this is really fun. there is also a party and this was used. but give us an opportunity to go in depth and my wife who is also at "the washington post", she had been assistant as we know, the one that came up with this term, she not only supported my idea of this but actually encouraged it and that was just tremendous because it was so big to leave a steady job and go out into the free enterprise world where you never know how a book is going to do. i have done 20 books now and i have never looked back. [inaudible question] >> guest: it is a conservative website that i was therefore chief washington correspondent and what i did was go interview everyone from george bush and romn

i was running the boston herald for three years and then "the washington post" for 15 years as an investigative reporter. >> host: why did you leave? >> guest: i left to right books. my second book i was still on leave from the post, he was the world's preeminent and we talked about this back and forth and eventually he invited me to a birthday party in spain along with brooke shields and sean connery and i thought hey, this is really fun. there is also a party and this was used. but give us an opportunity to go in depth and my wife who is also at "the washington post", she had been assistant as we know, the one that came up with this term, she not only supported my idea of this but actually encouraged it and that was just tremendous because it was so big to leave a steady job and go out into the free enterprise world where you never know how a book is going to do. i have done 20 books now and i have never looked back. [inaudible question] >> guest: it is a conservative website that i was therefore chief washington correspondent and what i did was go interview everyone from george bush and romn

the executive editor of "the washington post" marty barren has called the charges absurd and mardy joins. thank you for being here although i wish it wasn't under these circumstances. >> thanks for your continued interest in this subject. >> we heard about the charge this is week. you called them absurd. tell us why they're so absurd. tell us your so confident they can be proven false. >> well they are absurd. there's been no evidence actually provided by the iranian government that he engaged in espionage or did anything other than actually report on what was happening in that country. in fact most of his coverage focused on the culture and daily life of people in iran. he's been a reporter for us since 20150 12 and been in iran for ten years. you can assume during that time the iranian government probably monitored everything he did and yet he's been accredited as a journalist for a long time. and yet the revolutionary court has provided zero evidence of anything tantamount to espionage or anything even close to it. >> what then do you think are the motivations of the iranians here? >>

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even the "washington post" said it was a conservative line. the fact is day in and day out he is doing a magnificent job of telling both sides. so what was the question again? >> guest: i felt he was misunderstood they did and he was actually crucial in changing the culture in the fbi to make it prevention. he was being briefed by the director on the investigation of the possible prosecutions and they said wait a minute that's fine but i want to know what you are doing to stop the next plot so he created a whole new infrastructure that has made the state and not to mention the no child left behind act which is very dear to me because i couldn't read in the fourth grade. i had been taught with a method where you sort of basically guess the words. but when my mother remarried i was in the fourth grade and sure enough i learned to read and that's one thing that george bush pushed and that's one of the reasons i did a book on him. >> host: use of the most important thing has been the strengthening of the fbi intelligence community. i think this is

richard, your thoughts on the "washington post" report tonight?hance to read the report. one thing that report mentions was the prisoner was on the other side of the metal partitioner. so a lot 06 things can sound like banging on a a metal wall. if you can't see it it's hard to believe it. >> not only that but they also report that police said that mr. grey gray did ask for medical help. the case remains very much open to debate. . however, do you believe there's been a rush to judgment already against the cops? >> i think they have aggravated things by not speaking out and making some definitive statements. i think the violence and anger is rising because there isn't a statement like we're investigating our officers and specifically we're going to get back to you with this statement. i think in the the absence of that r poor leadership by the mayor, then these matters have risen to a fever pitch. that's part of the problem. >> the cops are saying they believe believe the mayor threw them under the bus. is it true? >> i don't think the mayor threw

we have no idea who gave this to "the washington post" or what their interests are in having done so. "the post" has published this within the last half hour. we watch the streets of baltimore tonight. fresh dough, yup. garlic parmesan seasoning, yup. all twisted up. garlic nantz. twisted up in knot. garlic knots. hm. garlic nantz, no way! yeah! introducing garlic nantz! made with fresh, never frozen dough get a large 2 topping pizza for just $10, and try garlic knots for a limited time, online only price of $4. better ingredients. better pizza. papajohns.com >>> things seem to be changing on the ground tonight on the streets of baltimore. baltimore had its first-ever or first in this incident curfew last night 10:00 p.m. to 5:00 a.m. mostly without incident. baltimore's due to be looking at that curfew again -- i'm just trying to see what we're looking at there. baltimore is looking to be starting that curfew again in 12 minutes. as you can see, there is a lot of media but also a lot of folks out on the street tonight still in baltimore as we get close to the curfew. that's -- >> no

the dishonesty, and the washington post. i don't understand how these people live with them sells writing dishonest stories not to mention the fact that a paper like the post today is going to be more successful. people will start over time recognizing you can actually trust the washington post. we should subscribe and look up website. it was opposed to some other examples where they're going down hill. it is so ideological. >> host: next call from robert kincaid coral, fla.. >> caller: thank you very much and thanks to c-span very enjoyable to get topics delivered end of thank you, mr. kessler. i was in college during the nixon administration. i was struck when you said it was the first attack on the constitution. i would like to comment on that for a little bit and then come back to the present where i hear obama being called the worst attack on the constitution we have ever had. >> guest: my reference to the constitution and nixon, a special prosecutor people over him who would not appoint a new special prosecutor, to lie

so fox news channel, okay, and the "new york times" and "the washington post"? with this guy's thesis in an arrangement that that he made with him in advance of the book being published? we reached out to the news outlets to get information, they told us they stand behind the agreements. they told us there was no payment involved, no financial aspect to any agreement. they both said essentially they were taking material from the book to further their own independent reporting on the clintons, but it is strange or at least striking given this particular author's history with inaccurately reporting things in the past, but reporting them in a way that is appealingly exclammer to and exciting enough to the political press that he sometimes gets past the standards of real news outlets and gets his stuff in print and then those outlets have to correct him later. while "new york times" and "the washington post" seem to be working with the author, there's an effort on the other side to -- to undercut the author's credibility, i guess we could say? to promote this guy's

this is a witness account in "the washington post." the prisoner believed gray was intentionally trying to injury himself. this is important to note the prisoner was separated by gray from a metal partition. he could not see gray. gray's family doesn't believe it. they strongly deny the claim that gray tried to injury himself. they said we disagree with any implication that freddie gray se vrk vered his own spinal cord. mr. gray was arrested without force or incident. they are protesting that. they with hearing indirectly from the baltimore police officers under investigation. someone close to one of the officers involved in the arrest sat down with don lemon. >> what did he say happened? >> he believes that whatever happened to mr. gray happened before he was transported. >> according to your loved one, what took so long to get medical help? >> they don't know. they have not discussed that. we didn't ask what took so long. i think the officers that chased him and handcuffed him and had him on the ground and he said he was hurting, i t

joining us is robert costa, national political reporter for "the washington post."hank you for being here tonight. let's just pick um on cruz because publicly ted cruz is more sort of the face of the anti-gay movement than just about any of the other presidential candidates. he goes to this event in new york city, he says he has no problem if his daughter is gay. do we know where the real ted cruz is on this? >> i think ted cruz wants to be the leader on the right, wants to be the hard liner fighting the cultural war but he's a lawyer, a constitutional scholar, he knows as well as anyone if the supreme court rules, as it's expected to perhaps, to legalize gay marriage, he recognizes he can fight religious freedom, even if he doesn't make marriage a central battle. >> what happens if the supreme court ruling, expectation is this is going to legalize it in all 50 states. what becomes the default republican position on that? are we going to have a year and a half of now we need a constitutional amendment, we've got to overturn what the supreme court did? or does the re

at last we know the charges he faces, the washington post here in the united states deem ludicrous.clear negotiations continue. let's go straight to correspondent frederik pleitgen live in tehran this morning. good morning, fred. >> reporter: good morning, john. so much going on in u.s. iranian relations. especially the part of yemen. the iranians are saying the ships in the area by no means want to go to the yemeni coast. they are there fighting piracy. they say iranians are doing that under international regulations. they have criticized the operation going on over yemen. especially the saudi involvement. they accused the saudis of genocide. the interesting thing of the rhetoric of tehran, when we talk about the expansion here they see it as stabilizing the region. i was at national armed forces day parade a couple of days ago in tehran. rouhani said this was a stabilizing factor for the country. they see that for the influence in iran and lebanon and influence in syria. it is heavily criticized by countries around the world. to them that is all something they say stabilizes the r

"the washington post" calls the spying allegations absurd. he has been held in tie ran for over -- tehran for over eight months. >>> the war in afghanistan may be officially over but 9,800 troops are still serving there. last week, 22-year-old army specialist john dawson was killed. he was the first to die since the war was officially declared over in december. last month president obama announced troop levels would not decrease this year as planned. that was not welcome news for families who already lost loved ones to war. >>> knowing what we have been through and what he went over there for, i wouldn't say it was right to say it was over for another family that might go through this. >> more than 2,300 americans have given their lives in the war in afghanistan. the president says the goal is to have only embassy security in place in afghanistan by the end of 2016. >>> there is new video of a black man killed by a white sheriff's deputy in oklahoma. and a warning you may want to look away or just mute your tv for now. you cannot see what hap

they got off the streets before that explosive "the washington post" report came out that "the washingtoneport that suggests that 25-year-old freddie gray self inflicted those deadly injuries on himself in the police van. that is something that will hit this community today. it is a notion that he self inflicted these injuries that will be extremely controversial. let me if you give me a couple of seconds, we have an alternative theory to that that i think fox news viewers might appreciate. just listen to this. despite "the washington post" report that a prison indicated that gray may have done self inflicted damage to himself in the van by thrashing around, i believe this theory is absolutely false. a much more credible explanation is that he had a seizure. it is well-known fact that seizures can occur in asthmatic patients under stress. please note that seizures are involuntary acts of uncontrollable muscle activity and can result in spinal cord injury. as a physician and a big fan of fox news, investigated. >> who is that from? >> a doctor who asked me for today, a prominent surgeon as

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"the washington post" reports a prisoner who rode in the van with freddie gray told investigators he could hear gray quote banging against the walls of the van. the prisoner believed gray was intentionally trying to injury himself. i'll say that again. the prisoner according to "the washington post" said freddie gray seemed to be intentionally trying to injury himself. it is important to note the prisoner was separated from gray with a metal partition and could not see gray. this comes after a search warrant application. gray's family denies that gray was trying to injury himself. they said we disagree with any implication that freddie gray severed his spinal cord. again, just because a prisoner inside the van says he believes gray was trying to injury himself doesn't explain what happened to gray before the van. this will be discussed no doubt. we are hearing from the baltimore police officers who are under investigation at this time. a family member of the officer involved in the arrest sat down with cnn's don lemon, she says to give his side of the story. >> what did he say happen

[applause] i want to stipulate because "the washington post" and i don't always agree. they are not always my best friend, but i am here to pay a compliment to the washington post for doing a great job. it would be a great disservice to the country of we lose our newspapers that do investigative reporting. the reporting on civil asset forfeiture is changing minds. it's changing minds in congress and even the last couple of months, we are talking about it and i know senator leahy was there in the judiciary talking about civil asset forfeiture. the stories are what get me. one person has a nice home in philadelphia. his teenage son sells $40 worth of illegal drugs and what do they do must wreck they evict the family from the house barricade house and take the house without a conviction. it's insane. too often, this is a grandma any inner-city is the only stabilizing force in the family's grandson is selling marijuana and they take the house. we have to do something about this. to my mind, it is fully un-american the government could ever take your property without a convi

please look at the share price of chipotle, an editorial to the washington post calls the company's move to get rid of all genetically modified foods, quote, a gimmick that is hard to swallow. the post said to police feeding into fear mongering not based on scientific fact. bring in scott shellady in chicago. why are we bringing in scott shellady from chicago who looks like the loss 100 pounds. you are a farmer, i think. you know what you are talking about here. what is this with a genetically modified foods? should we be scared? >> we shouldn't be scared. we should be thankful. a lot of genetically modified foods are modified to withstand floods and have been modified to be more fruitful and plentiful. there's a lot of sustainability introduced in those modifications that don't make the headlines. is a soft targets attacking imaginations in the hopes -- is not the right thing to do and there's probably a lot of nutrient and medication that goes into the beef and pork they serve but that doesn't hit the headline. we don't talk about the plants and fruits and vegetables. stuart: i am shoc

beat channel on the washington post.viewers want to bookmark that and come back to it. we are shuffling some of the usual political alliances. what is an example of that? guest: 22 years ago, nafta passed. when it did, 102 democrats in the house of representatives foot for nafta. a few more voted against it. 102, that is a significant number. 130 republicans voted for it as well. of those 102 democrats who voted in favor, a significant portion were from southern states or border states. those states do a lot of manufacturing. they wanted to get goods to canada and mexico as fast as possible. border states are the states that do the most trade with canada and mexico so they were in favor of it as well. a significant number of those are held by republicans. after the waves of 2010 and 2014, we have seen free-trade democrats losing. they have been replaced by urban democrats in the northeast and on the west coast. people who are a lot more liberal. the party has shifted left since nafta passed. that means the democrats who

be a priority the american marine amir hekmati and secondly the american journalist, from the "washington post." you know iran should turn those over if they expect to be accepted in the international community and if they want the u.s. congress to approve this nuclear deal with the united states and iran. >> okay. good points there. let's switch gears and i want to talk about hillary clinton because there are now these allegations, i know you're familiar with it from this book by a former bush aide independent newspaper investigations that the clinton family foundation failed to document foreign donations, accepted donations from people tied to a russian ukraine yan mining company and here's the clinton campaign's response. no one has produced a shred of evidence that hillary clinton ever took action as secretary of state to support the interests of donors to the clinton foundation. do you see any there, there? >> no i don't. i think it's part of the witchhunt that the clintons always attract.

dan balz, the chief correspondent of the washington post. so what is the vision that hillary clinton wants to lay out? >> based on everything we know about hillary clinton's life and life story she's going to talk a lot about middle class middle class income security economic mobility income inequality but not in a hard-edged way. we know that that was the focus certainly of the eight clinton years when her husband was president. everything she said in the run-up over the last 18 months as she has gotten ready to become a formal candidate points in that direction. so i think that's part of it. and i think the secretary is she has always had a more muscular foreign policy than some others in the democratic party. i think that is one of the questions given all of the turmoil in the middle east and elsewhere how she will address that. >> is there a difference now i guess eight years later than the hill rae that was running against barack obama and perhaps a different strategy where at that time maybe she had different goals in mind of establish

"washington post" reporter danielle paquette who wrote the story joins us now. >> stewart: in your piece there is a startling line and i am just going read it, it says the united states is the only advanced economy in the world with rising maternal mortality rates. what is going on in this country as opposed to other advanced economies that is causing this problem? >> well often this problem confounds a lot in the medical community. there is not one thing dragging the problem. experts, i have spoke to tell me that some parts of the country there is -- there are gaps in health insurance coverage especially in the south. for example in mississippi, one of the highest maternal mortality rates that the state did not expand medicaid or something like 100,000 people who don't have access to any healthcare, and many of them are women, you have in mississippi 160 doctors, 100,000 residents, that drives part of this problem. >> stewart: one of the disinteresting things in your piece is that the problems are described as preventable. so what is stopping people from preventing them? >> well some do

the "washington post" called the charges "ludicrous." white house press secretary josh earnest agreed. >> these charges are absurd, should be immediately dismissed and jason should be freed immediately so he can return home to his family. >> reporter: rezaian, who is an american citizen, moved to iran in 2007 and became the "post's" tehran bureau chief in 2012. in a statement, "washington post" editor martin baron says "it's despicable to assert that jason's work amounted to espionage or otherwise posed any threat to iranian national security." he's being held in a notoriously brutal prison and spent nearly five months in solitary confinement according to his brother, ali, who spoke to cbs news' chip reid last week. >> jason in the first 45 days in prison lost almost 50 pounds. at that time he was being actively interrogated six days a week. at this point we know he's had multiple infections. they have been not treated for long periods of time. >> rezaian's mother mary who lives in turkey has made several public pleas for his release. >>

i hold "the washington post" to a high standard. what do you think? "thwashington post" to a higher standard too. >> it did in that maybe air that and the tenor of that make a joke of it. . >> that is true. there is the old-guard mainstream media to look down its nose in a sovereign contempt and disdain and there is an elitist notion within the beltway that if we haven't heard of you, don't matter. you find a lot of things like that in the mainstream media. >> the one thing i'll give the mainstream media its due is they did have a thing to do with the chipotle thing. did she need to be recognized or not recognized so i thought the whole thing was a big deal over nothing. i've gone in to many ponderosa's so not to be noticed. >> but you're robbing the ponderrosa. >> don't let people on to that. >> but there's a disproportionate number, too, and i understand that but i remember this in the past, i remember barack obama versus mitt romney or john mccain versus barack obama. you know the drill. this is a familiar drill. >> yeah. well, first of all, i'll do

, i used to work for "washington post." he got my job after i left for "new york times." he is very good friend of mine and dedicated reporter who really loves his job and he has been in prison since july 22nd. this is of course a very distressing situation not only for me but especially for his family. i spoke to his brother the other day. these people are incredibly worried. this is stain on the image iran is trying to portray, a image of more stablizing force in the region. jenna: i will get into it more with a "washington post" editor later on in the program. do you feel concerned for your safety because of your work that some day you might end up in jail in iran? >> i myself like jason i'm very convinced i'm not a spy. and i'm trying to do my work which also involves gathering information and talking to people. if anybody in the iranian system disagrees with that they know to find me because my address and office are we cell known in tehran. jenna: sounds like you're not concerned? >> not very concerned. jenna: good to

the "washington post" calls them ludicrous.rly nine months after jason was locked up in tehran's notorious prison his attorney she has finally discussed his case with him for the first time. she told the "washington post," she learned iran is charging him with espionage, and three other serious crimes including collaborating with hostile governments. for example, she said the indictment claimed he wrote to president obama. the state department says iran should drop the charges immediately. >> these charges are as we said in the past patently absurd he should be freed so he can return to his family. >> reporter: and the "washington post" is calling the charges baseless. the executive wrote: hard line iranian media have been reporting on the charges over the past few weeks, one newspaper printed a front page article with the headline uncoding jason. and a news agency accused him of selling economic and industrial information about iran to its enemies. and also linked him to an iranian human rights advocate living in new york. >>