Years in the making. Five americans wrongfully detained in iran are now on a plane and its just taken off from tehran on their way to freedom. Were there headed just next, details on all this and the deal that was made that led to their release. Also this hour, one of Donald Trumps codefendants heads to court. Jeffrey clark, the former Justice Department official, now arguing why his case should move out of georgia and into federal court. A sheriffs deputy ambushed and killed. A reward now offered to help find the suspect as a clue emerges they hope will lead to an arrest. Im john berman with sara sidner and kate bolduan. This is cnn news central. Just moments ago, a qatari jet carrying Five Americans imprisoned in iran took off from tehran and is tet to arrive in doha, qatar. Three have all been imprisoned for more than five years. The identities of two other americans in the deal have not yet been released. Its all part of a complex u. S. iran deal involving the release of 6 billion
the evidence and made the ultimate decision about charging hunter biden. a lot of the controversy here relates to failure to distinguish between special counsel and lawyers, but we will clear that up today. america needs to understand the only political interference play is coming from donald trump and my republican colleagues. we will listen carefully to the testimony, and i thank you you, mr. chairman. i would like to remind the members of the public that section 6103 makes taxpayer information confidential except in certain circumstances. one of those exceptions is the process the ways and means committee used to receive testimony from these whistle-blowers and report transcripts to default house of representatives to make that information public. they ve gone above and beyond to submit information to congress in accordance with the law, and we are grateful to them for that. the witnesses can only justify to the tax information that has already been released through
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congressman, is there anything more incriminating of joe biden than that encrypted message that he has with the chinese business partner? it definitely says a lot right there. that is very disturbing. that is why it is so important that the american people get this information. it is so important that the house ways and means committee voted today to allow this information to be public. because of statutory authorities under something that they call 6103, we were the only ones able to have the information from the irs whistleblowers. in order for that information to be made public we had to vote to make it public. that s why we did it. so that the public can see this information and here it and the facts can continue to lead to further progress. the three countries that are referred to china, romania and one other country, ukraine. it was $17 million. of that $17 million you have
trump is a unique is individual in the presidency, a person with hundreds of different, you know, corporate identities that he can hide behind, move money in between so it is a unique set of circumstances for sure, but president trump could have answered one of these two questions if he had simply done what he said he would do, and that is he himself release his tax returns. remember, going all the way back to 2015 he kept saying over and over again, he ll release his returns and we ve been waiting all this time. we still would have had to seek under section 6103 of the tax code information about whether the irs was properly auditing those returns, but he could have resolved the big question that the republicans seem to have such a big difficulty with, that is the release of the tax returns themselves. he promised to do it. we need that information now because of the questions that have arisen around whether or not the irs did its job. i worry more about the president that says we have