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
Breaking news this morning. Five americans are on a plane, one step closer to their freedom after being wrongfully detained for years in iran. We are live in qatar which is their first stop and where they are expected to touchdown any moment. In georgia, a hearing a under way for one of Donald Trumps codefendants where one of the defendants is asking his case to be moved from a State Court Into Federal court, and will it fail like mark meadows did. And how, a irs agent is saying that his rights were failed. With kate bolduan and sara sidner, im john berman and this is cnn news central. Five prisoners in iran wrongfully detained are expected to arrive in qatar by jet. And talking ging about siamak , emad sharghi, morad tahbaz and two other Unidentified Americans will be headed to america. And now 6 billion will be available to iran for humanitarian reason, and five iranian held prisoners will be released as well. Becky anderson is in doha, and what is the very latest that you are hearin
the music for how they re going to do this legally based on fraudulent claims about voters and a theory of law that s just untrue, according to the constitution. we see it in the negotiations with clark, who was introduced at the request of trump, which surprised me by congressman perry, because i assumed it was a straight, would you do me a favor, mr. president? i d like to be the attorney general. i realize we re short on time, but the way i would sum this sup i think not only does eastman need a lawyer, but the lawyer, harry mcdougal, who does represent jeffrey clark, he should probably look at who he could point to, because i think that s where this is going. you have him, clark, implemented in various elements, almost weaving back and forth between trump s direct overtures to the secretary of state, which was taped, and trying to get this moving so that before
mcdougal is the kind of lawyer who would potentially be a fact witness for this committee because he was connected to that effort. the lawsuit that he signed onto contains really whacky stuff about hugo chavez and dominion machines. that s the person that went into this deposition with jeffrey clark to advise him on how to handle it and that s part of the reason i think investigators have signaled they re very unhappy with the way this afternoon went. so that s the way that jeffrey clark shows respect for congress, he takes a sidney powell associate with him to congress. what are democrats going to do about this? what is bennie thompson, the committee chair going to do? they talk a good game, but will there be any action against these defiant trumpists? the simplest step is vote in the committee and vote on the house floor to hold him in