American Prisoners Released from iran and almost home. The lead starts right now. A nightmare almost over. For Five Americans who spent years behind bars in brutal iranian prisons. One was a father locked up when he was tried to visit his jailed son. Coming up, inside of the negotiations to get The Americans released which some critics are calling Hostage Diplom diplomacy. Plus annoyed on the bench. A judge expressing irritation with Jeffrey Clark who trump almost appointed as Attorney General and who didnt bother showing up for todays hearing. And cnn undercover. Looking into what the Mercenary Wagner group is up to in africa. After Yevgeny Prigozhin was killed on suspicious circumstances. Welcome to the lead, the jake tapper. We start with Five Americans who the u. S. Has been wrongfully detained in iran headed home. We saw them for the first time today stepping off a plane in qatar after leaving iran. They are back on a plane headed to the United States. Theyre expected to arrive at
On their way to the u. S. Right now five americans held hostage in iran are free after the Biden Administration unfreezes 6 billion of iranian oil money, but the u. S. Is imposing new sanctions on iranian agencies and officials with connections to another detained american. We have details. Hunter biden now suing the irs. The president s son says agents illegally released his personal information. He claims the agency failed to protect his private records. Plus, a former Department Of Justice official and donald trump ally asking a federal judge to move his Georgia Election subversion case to federal court. How the judge is now reacting. We are following thinks major developing stories and more coming in here to cnn news central. Here in a few hours five americans who were wrongfully detained in iran will be back on u. S. Soil for the first time in years. Their plane in the air as we speak. It left from qatar a bit ago and President Biden has spoken to each of their families, families
resign? that s stupid. of course, i think all of the people i disagree with should quit their jobs and be replaced with people of love. that s not the way the world works. it is not a reasonable request, until the secretary of defense resigns i m going to block all of his requests, and coming from a person that exonerated donald trump for extorting zelenskyy for withhelding lethal aid. they with held lethal aid until and unless zelenskyy would release false smears against joe biden s son and then he voted to exonerate president trump for this. so spare me the new solidarity with the ukrainians and with the free world because this man s record is exactly the opposite. i yield the floor. okay. the senator did a great job
tied with his democratic challenger. another new poll shows iowa congressman steve king in an overwhelmingly trump district up by a single point against his democratic opponent. we ll be talking about him and his white nationalism later in the show. all of that and more is why they re trying so hard to whip their base into a frenzy. as brian shats tweeted today, we close on health care and corruption and they can close with whatever toxic racist stew they want. senator brian schatz joins us now. what do you make of this strange, desperate, gross closing argument from the republican party? i think you hit it exactly on the head? it s strange, it s desperate, it s toxic, it s awful. what it shows is that the republicans realize that all of their actual ideas, both in terms of what they want to do in the future, in terms of cutting social security, medicare and medicaid, and in terms of what they ve done over the last two years in terms of the largest
on the left. they think an english justice system is somehow racist. senator brian shats of hawaii not a genius tweeted this quote do you know anyone who says an grow american heritage in a sentence? for the chief law enforcement officer to use a dog whistle like that is appalling. it s pretty funny, senator shats probably doesn t know it but the hawaiian state flag has a union jack in it clearly racist we do know someone who used the phrase anglo american which should be a crime he did it anyway and used it in a sentence it was 2006, barack obama actually praising habeas corpus as a key part of anglo american legal system. apparently that was a dog whistle to his fellow white supremacists. too many dumb people on tuition. we re going to end tonight s program with congratulations to one of our favorite people. key member of our team on this kelly mcnally senior booker in this program and beloved in the building. responsible for a lot of the people. she got engaged in past weekend to ra