executed his own flesh and blood, his uncle yang. iran is getting closer to making the bomb and there is now word that the american it is holding has been hostage for nearly 7 years, he may have been working for the cia. in iraq, ten years too the day of the capture of saddam hussein. but let's start with robert levinson. i want to discuss the operation and then a.p.'s decision to run the story. eric, the administration is saying this was unsanctioned that this was a rogue group of analysts who sent him in to do spy missions and he didn't have the authority to do it. do you think the cia just giving itself from plausible deny ability. >> jay carney said he didn't think that leave -- that levinson was not working for the government when he went over to iran in 2007. i'm not sure anyone knows that.