one of the five americans released from prison last weekend is now home in the united states. matthew trif thick was greeted by his mother. she was in tehran as a student but arrested and held for 40 days. he was released separately from the prisoner swap which freed four other americans. one of that group chose to remain in iran. the other three are recovering at usa military hospitl in germany. >> reporter: after being held 545 days inside iran, tonight all smiles as jason rezaia is finally reunited with his family. his brother ollie spoke with jason shortly after he left tehran. >> he seemed in good spirits. he's together. he can't wait to get out there, see people, meet people. but right now he's got to focus on getting himself better. >> reporter: rezaian, former marine amir hekmati, and pastor saeed abedini are now at the u.s. military hospital in landstuhl germany after going medical checks after their ordeal. >> they never gave in and they never gave up. at long last, they can stand tall and breathe deep the fresh air of freedom. >> reporter: today amir hekmati also reunited with his family. and congressman dan kildee who worked tirelessly for his release. >> re-entering into the world as a free person will take more than just a deep breath. it will take a little bit of help. >> reporter: in exchange for the american prisoners' freedom the u.s. pardoned or commuted the sentences of an iranian and six dual citizens of the u.s. and iran. in iran, headlines of celebration. on the same day the americans left iran, the nation shed decades of sanctions as the iran nuclear deal took effect. iran's president praised his nation's perseverance. >> translator: today is a historic day, an exceptional day. >> reporter: but behind the scenes it took 14 months of secret diplomacy between washington and tehran to free the prisoners, which the u.s. insists was separate from the nuclear deal. in november secretary of state john kerry and iran's foreign minister zarif reached agreement on a prisoner swap, only to have it rejected back in tehran. >> there were fits and starts. sometimes it came together, then it would fam apart again. >> reporter: as the deal was coming together once again iran detained ten u.s. sailors picked up in their waters. but the prisoner swap in potential jeopardy again the crisis was quickly averted and they were let go within 24 hours, keeping the prisoner swap alive. another nail-biting moment as they prepared to leave. iranian authorities tried to prevent rezaian's wife and mother from getting on the plane. >> the iranians, as they have done all along, continue to manipulate them, continued to try to mess them and prevented them from leaving for some period of time. >> reporter: both rezaian's wife and mother were eventually allowed to ney out of iran with him. officials are still working to get iranian-american businessman released and fbi agent robert levenson who disappeared on an island in march 2007. the u.s. says as part of the agreement iran has promised to seek information about levenson's whereabouts. cnn, washington. so it does the release of the prisoners mean relations will continue to improve between the u.s. and iran? analyst michael of the hudson institute does not think so. he says hard liners in iran still hold sway. >> i still believe all decisions are still being made by the supreme leader and the supreme leader and his revolutionary guard are not big fans of this iran deal. i hope that the moderates actually win. but when you look at what happened just yesterday with 99% of reformist candidates disqualified from running in february's election, you have to look at things like that, too. those are tangible things happening on the ground in iran that we have to pay attention to. >> michael pregent there with the hudson institute. we'll hear more from michael next hour. will the families of four former captives being reunited with them another american remains unaccounted for in iran and robert levinsolevinson's loved continue to wait. >> span two presidential administrations and president obama has had seven years to get him home and he just promised yesterday that he was going to be doing everything he could. secretary kerry said the same thing. and i worry that after things like this, after the nuclear deal last summer, after this, i don't understand what they're going to be doing? we haven't heard from them since the initial call. and we would like to speak with them and find out what are they doing to get my dad home now? what are the next steps? because we're just lost here. we're desperate and we've just -- it's been going on for so long. >> i think it's obvious the iranian government knows exactly where he is. it takes more than just cooperation to find him because honestly don't know where exactly he is but the iranians certainly do. >> levinson, former fbi agent and cia contractor went missing in iran in 2007. the iranians have denied any knowledge of his fate. iraqi authorities searching a baghdad neighborhood for three missing american contractors. iraqi security official says gunmen kidnapped the men from a brothel in the dora neighborhood on friday. investigators are trying to determine if the men were lured to the brothel. a u.s. senator says the kidnapping may not be a coincidence following the u.s. prisoner swap with iran. >> iran does dominate many that are very large and influential in baghdad. and we just paid a huge price to get back hostages from iran. and iran still has at least two more americans held hostage. maybe more. we have taught iran's leaders and the world a very bad lesson, that there's a price on the heads of americans to be held hostage. even if they weren't taken hostage by iran-backed militias it's a more dangerous world for all americans around the world. >> iraqi security forces also set up a checkpoint in baghdad as part of the search. two of the contractors are iraqi-american, the third is an egyptian-american. to politics. donald trump is looking to build his support from evangelical christians. republican front-runner enjoys a healthy leader in new hampshire where he campaigned on monday but he's in a tight race with his rival ted cruz in iowa. cruz has considerable support from the religious right. here's how trump has addressed religion in the past. >> i'm a protestant. i'm very prud of it. presbyterian to be exact. i'm very proud of it. when we go to church and when i drink my little wine, which is about the only wine i drink and have my little cracker, i guess that's a form of asking for forgiveness. and i do that as often as possible because i feel cleansed. most importantly, i brought my bible. i'm a good christian. okay? remember that. the bible means a lot to me but i don't want to get into specifics. that's my second favorite book of all time. you know what my first is? the bible! god will be very proud of me. the bible is special. i have great relationship with god. i have great relationship with the evangelicals. we love the evangelicals. >> on monday trump spoke to 10,000 christian students. randi kaye reports despite some misgivings many of the students were receptive to mr. trump. >> in my general, by the way -- >> reporter: donald trump once again courting evangelical voters. this time at liberty university. attendance for students was mandatory, even for those not supporting trump. like c.j. wilson who doesn't buy all trump's talk about faith. >> if you're not showing fruits i honestly don't want a president like that. if you're proclaiming and you're not living it, it's kind of like -- i don't like that. >> would you vote for donald trump if he's the nominee? >> i wouldn't. >> reporter: trump, a self-proclaimed protestant likes to say he has a great relationship with evangelicals and that may be true. the most recent polling from fox news shows trump leading among evangelicals nationally with 28%. but when trump tried to quote scripture, which he never does publicly, he the stumbled. >> two corinthians 3:17, that's the whole ball game. where the spirit of the lord, right? where the spor wririt of the lo, there is liberty. >> reporter: trump said two corinthians corinthians. many christian conservatives here are already bothered that trump has said he doesn't ask for forgiveness from god. >> i'm going to vote for the person who believes the same things as i do and has the same moral standards. and so that's definitely going to be a big deciding factor. >> does that sound like donald trump for you? >> it doesn't. i can't necessarily say that donald trump has the type of faith that i would put my vote for. >> reporter: these two sisters disagree. they like that trump is pro life though he was once pro-choice. >> he has changed. and he has been faithful since 2011. that is enough for me. god is about change. >> reporter: trump again called the bible his favorite book and promised if he's elected it will be okay to say merry christmas again instead of the politically correct happy holidays. >> if i'm president you're going to see merry christmas in department stores, believe me. >> reporter: all reasons many here are willing to give trump a chance. this student prefers ben carson, but -- >> talking about their faith. i absolutely love to have a godly man in office. but at this point, i see the wave of trump, and the country getting behind him and i would like someone that can beat hillary clinton or bernie sanders, so i feel like that's his guy so i'm 100% behind donald trump. >> reporter: this student favors carson, too, but says trump has his vote if he can protect christianity as promised. >> i don't know. i don't know what his daily walk is with the lord. if he allows the country to continue with religious freedom, that's a huge thing. i will vote for a president who allows me to practice my faith. >> reporter: in fact, even some who don't believe his values line up with theirs are willing to forgive him. >> we're all sinners. who are we to judge him? >> reporter: randi kaye, cnn, lynchbu lynchburg, virginia. to the democratic side now. the focus was on electability. bernie sanders campaigned in birmingham, alabama, in a bid to win more support from african-american voters. he underscored some poll numbers much like donald trump who had been beating trump by 15 points. the tightened race with hillary clinton. secretary clinton was in iowa emphasizing achievable agenda and extensive experience. >> when i was in the senate of course i had to work with republicans. i think every piece of legislation just about that i ever introduced had a republican cosponsor. and i know how important it is to build the relationships that are required to find that common ground. and i intend to do that every single day. because we have problems that we can only solve if we work together. we've got to get out of the partisanship into states manship. >> for more on this, joined by dave jacobsen, campaign consu consulta consultant, communications. dave, thanks for coming in. >> sure. thanks for having me. >> we're down to the business end of the season. if you like the start of the business end of the season. starting to see real differences now between hillary clinton and bernie sanders on things like health care. we're moving to iowa, recent polls 3% of potential democrat voters identify themselves as socialists. that would seem to give bernie sanders a pretty big edge in iowa. >> i think he was driving the debate last night. i think that's because bernie sanders is really tapping into people's frustration and their anxiety over the status quo, the dysfunction in washington. they're looking for political revolution which is precisely what he's talking about. they're looking for something new. they want an overhaul of the broken bitter politics in washington. they want big changes, revolutionary changes. that's what he's talking about. that's why he's surging in iowa. >> poll numbers. surging with whites, with white voters. people who are maybe more than $100,000 a year. he's not surging with minorities. especially african-americans which is why he was in alabama today to prove it. he doesn't get those minorities onside, how does he move forward? >> there's no pathway forward. ultimately iowa and new hampshire are do or die states for bnernie sanders. hillary on the other hand, she can still survive if he wins both of them because she's got the southern sort of border. she's got south carolina. other southern states with large african-american populations who really support her campaign. on the other hand, you've got latinos in nevada and western states who are also supporting her. big leads in south carolina and in nevada. she's in a position to be successful in the long haul. the question is can bernie win those two front states, iowa and new hampshire, and propel his campaign forward and appeal to those other constituencies. >> this is the thing. if he wins iowa and new hampshire, and everyone is looking at the poll, well, you know, secretary clinton has the african-american vote. but doesn't that change the dynamic in any way? doesn't he have momentum, bernie sanders, winner, clinton is a loser, everyone is saying. oh, my gosh, this is 2008 all over again. so things change. >> no, of course. we are in the momentum business. right? if bernie sanders does win those two states that's why i say -- like right now he has to base with african-americans or hardly in any or with latinos. she's dominating with those constituencies. if he wins those two first states that can propel him forward and missounmomentum and electricity that he needs. >> how did hillary clinton manage to get herself into exactly the same position that she was in, you know, back in 2008, only last time it was barack obama and not bernie sanders? >> well, i think the dynamics are very similar. bernie sanders represents revolution, overhaul, changing the status quo. he's the change guy, right? eight years ago that was barack obama. hillary clinton was more of the same. eight years of president bush. look, we've got 230 go back to the clinton years when my husband was in the white house. that obviously didn't work. so and it's not working this time around. more of the same message isn't appealing to the iowa voters or in new hampshire. she's got to figure out something to break through. he's working. >> he's the 70-year-old, 72-year-old change guy? >> i guess so. this is a consistent message. you've seen it throughout his career. he's just pretty authentic. >> authentic guy. >> that's the issue. >> thanks for coming? >> thanks for having me. members of britain's parliament had an open debate about whether u.s. presidential candidate donald trump should be banned from the uk. response to an online petition calling for his ban which was launched after trump proposed a travel ban on muslims entering the united states. british lawmakers described his remarks as crazy, most some banning trump would be against free speech. >> his comments regarding muslims are wrong. his policy to close borders, if he is elected as president, is bonkers. and if he met one or two of my constituents in one of the many excellent pubs in my constituency, then they they may well tell him that he the a wazook. >> while i think this man is crazy, while i think this man has no valid points to make, i will not be the one to silence his voice. >> last month british prime minister david cameron said he was not in favor of any ban on mr. trump calling it unnecessary. a short break here on "cnn newsroom." when we come back china is out with the latest report on the health of the economy. we'll check the numbers and see how markets are reacting. protesters in the u.s. state of michigan calling for the governor's arrest. we'll have the latest on the lead poison water crisis. stay with us. you're watching cnn. t...to help sense danger before7 was engiyou do. . because when you live to innovate, you innovate to live. the all-new audi q7. a higher form of intelligence has arrived. the cold truth is, if a cold keeps you up at night... you can't work from home the next day. 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because the economy has been so prosperous that the government feels they are providing them with a certain level of growth that they've come to expect. so what this raises, whether the number is really 6.9%, whether it's closer to 4% as some economists have estimated, it raises the question, can the communist party control this, what, president xi ping going to cat, it's trans sitioning from manufacturing exports, low-cost exports. that's what fueled the growth for so many years. now transitioning to a consumption based economy. consumers makinging more money, spending more money, retail that sort of thing. can the communist party as they're planning to do, you know, ride this train, you know, drive the boat, if you will, to the way that they want it to be and they want 6 1/2% growth for the next five years. can they do it? that's really the unknown right now, john. >> yeah, it's a long way down from the 8% that they used to be a few years ago. will, thank you. so, let's go to hong kong. andr andrew, what else are we looking at right now? >> well, as will points out, john, there is several different measures, unofficial measures which independent economists and banks look at now, freight volume, electricity. some have the gdp growth around 4 1/2%. really the best way to judge what's happening in china really is not what the leadership in beijing says but what it does. is beijing pulling out all stops to try to lift this economy? and the answer is no. yes, they have cut interest rates. yes, they are making it easier for banks to land money to people. but have they gone nuclear in the economic sense even though they cut interest rates to zero, throwing money at people, that they are taking several measures which they can take to try and get things moving. so there's no sense of panic there. and interesting watching the reaction to these numbers in the markets because this was the number that everyone had been focusing on for some time. if you think about what had been happening in the lead-up. stock markets wobbling globally, the yuan being devaled with no prior warning. a lot of people saying this was signs that beijing was panicking. see how the markets are reacting today, there you have it. the hang seng index is up 1% the shanghai market is up. the key markets are all actually up today. and that is what really -- the investment community is making of this. so do you -- are we in for a hard landsing? at this stage very much unlikely. >> andrew, thank you. appreciate the analysis. thanks for being with us. and will ripley, also in beijing. thank you to you both. we have another story in china. authorities have confirmed one of the missing hong kong book sellers is actually in the mainland. lee ball pictured on these posters went messing on december 30th, one of five to have mysteriously disappeared according to a letter written to the hong kong government. lee said he traveled to china to help with investigations. hong kong police have requested a meeting with lee. news of lee's whereabouts came after his colleague appeared on chinese state television sunday apparently confessing to hit and run accident from 2003. break here. when we come back, top player in the men's tennis is responding to allegations of wide spread match fixing. we'll hear have novak djokovic and this controversy. academy awards are facing fresh criticism. why that has prompted a boycott. still to come. hey! this is lloyd. to prove to you that the better choice for him is aleve. he's agreed to give it up. ok, but i have 30 acres to cover by sundown. we'll be with him all day as he goes back to taking tylenol. yeah, i was ok, but after lunch my knee started hurting again so... more pills. yep... another pill stop. can i get my aleve back yet? 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>> i haven't had the debrief yet. i don't know the answer to that. they're being evaluated at the hospital at lands stul and then they will return and we'll have the full story. >> there are a lot of suggest n suggestions after the iranians, according to the u.s. security council, illegally tested ballistic missiles. the u.s. was ready to impose fresh sanctions to iran but you delayed that out of fear that it would jeopardize the release of americans. is that true? >> i think it's fair to say that we wanted to respect the sensitivity of everything that we were doing. but we made it clear we were going to do it. we made it clear weeks ago. we notified congress and made it clear this was going to happen. we also made it clear at the time. >> we violated a u.n. security council resolution by testing the ballistic missiles. the obama administration said they will be penalized, sanctioned for that, but you delayed that until the americans were released. >> the president always has the prerogative to choose the timing of what he does but he made it clear he would enforce those sanctions and he did. >> john kerry there speaking with wolf blitzer. we go to the u.s. state of michigan where they're calling for the -- of rick sniyder. it's a key rallying cry for democratic presidential candidates. >> and when the children of majority black flint, michigan, have been drinking and lead poi than a year, making sure all of americans have clean air and water isn't just a health issue, it's a civil rights issue. >> governor snyder, republican, says political finger pointing is a distraction to those who are working to solve the crisis. he has called in t national guard to help deliver clean water to the city's 100,000 residents. according to the reuters news agency he is still getting paid. fifa us spended him in october and banned him for eight years over ethics violations. fifa official tells reuters that blater's bonuses have stopped but will continue to receive his salary until a new president is elected next month. one of tennis' biggest stars are down playing allegation of wide spread match fixing in the sport. novak dock jik said he heard rumors of a possible wrong doing going ones in years past and indirectly approached to throw a match for $2000 in 2007 but he says he didn't think there was a problem at the sport's highest levels. the bbc and buzzfeed say they obtained secret file which accuse a number of top players for throwing matches for payments. djokovic calls the report speculation, governing bodies reject the claims denying suppressing any such evidence. let's bring in cnn digital producer live in melbourne this hour. ravi, we had this news conference with djokovic. let's hear what he said about throwing a match with that bribe of $200,000. let's listen. >> there's no room for any match fixing or corruption in a sport. i was not approached directly. i was approached through people that were working with me at this time. of course we -- we threw it away right away. i mean, made me feel terrible. somebody may call it an opportunity. i call it -- for me, that's an act of unsportsmanship, crime in sport, honestly. >> so, ravi, what has been the reaction there to those statements from djokovic? >> well, john, he's talked about it in the past being approached indirectly as you said. it was within the tennis world. but they really came to the floor yesterday after that damning report and there was more reaction today. i spoke to chris yesterday who was really the figure head not only for the men's tour but the various governing bodies. he said, yes, it was a tough day for tennis yesterday. but he also wanted to reiterate the fact that tennis has had nothing to hide and there was never ever any suppression of evidence which the report seemed to indicate. so he wanted to make that very, very clear. >> everyone is talking about trying to play down these allegations, that there's nothing to hide. but this is the start of the australian open. and it seems to be looking at all the news reports it's one of the main stories which is getting a lot of attention right now. so how are these allegations overshadowing the start of the season? >> john, they certainly have. there's no question about it because yesterday, for instance, we had serena williams playing on center court around lunch hour in melbourne. and serena had such a great season last year winning three of the four majors in tennis but nobody was focused on the match. we were all talking about this match fixing story. it really rumbled on throughout the day. the results came through but all the players are being asked about it. we heard from novak and maria sharapova was asked. roger federer was asked. day one certainly was not about the tennis at the australian open. it was about this story. >> ravi, thank you for the update there on a beautiful day in melbourne. enjoy the tennis. and first of all, details about exactly what's happening about these allegations. learning new details about the great lengths mexican prison authorities went to capture guzman after escaping from prison last year. according to journalist working for them guzman is guarded by dogs, trained to detect his scent. the dogs are always accompanied by their handlers. in addition, there are fixed cameras, no blind spots. you may recall guzman escaped from a blind spot in his bathroom. and prison floors have been re-enforce with steel rods. stop him from digging his way out. still to come here, two big names in hollywood are skipping the oscars this year to boycott over diversity. when emergency room doctors choose an otc pain reliever for their patients muscle, back and joint pain. the medicine in advil is their #1 choice. nothing is stronger on tough pain than advil. relief doesn't get any better than this. advil. 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"credit karma. give yourself some credit." two big names in hollywood are boycotting the acad the my awards of because of lack of diversity among the nominees. jada pinkett smith posted it on facebook. >> begging for acknowledgement, even asking diminish egg dignity. diminishes power. and we are a dignified peopled. r. and we are powerful and let's not forget it. so let's let the academy do that with all grace and love and let's do us differently. >> in a separate message filmmaker spike lee said he would skip the show as well. some of what he said. how is it possible for the second consecutive year all 20 contenders under the acting category are white? let's not even get into the other branches. 41 actors in two years and no flavor at all. we can't act? hollywood, they say they love a sequel and now they got a sequel to last year's all white oscars. now even whiter than white oscars. spike lee asked the question, how can it happen two years in a row. >> how can it happen? because the governing body doesn't represent what whootd is striving to be. look at the movies that were number one. you've got "star wars," multiethnic cast. the movie that knocked "star wars" out of the top spot "ride along ii" can ice cube and kevin hart. color sells. if they're not racist or if they're not prejudice, if they're good businessmen you would think diversity should be selling and it should be being awarded at the academy awards and it's not. >> if there's anything this town los, it's money. >> it's built on money. and today of all days, mlk day, for spike lee to come out and say that he's boycotting it and jada pinkett smith to say that she is, take eight step further, it feels like the big house. it feels like blacks can serve us. we can present awards at the show, we can even entertain you. oh, yeah, we can have chris rock, no disrespect to chris. >> jokes, sing a song, dance. >> do a dance, you know, play a little violin. >> yeah. >> but you don't get to sit at the table. what we're asking for is an opportunity to sit at the table. the biggest slap in the face i believe is with "straight out of the compton." >> this is amazing. when you look at the nominations for this movie. go on. >> the only people nominated are the two white screenwriters. >> the two white guys that wrote it. >> what is insidious is the academy has ten movies and only nominated eight. you leave compton out when you have the ability to add two more. i don't know any of the academy award voters personally so i'm not going to call them racist. what i will say is they vote their prejudices when they're allowed to do it on a bool lot. it's 90% white old men. they're not going to have the same touchstones as a younger generation. so "bridge of spies" which is the cold war and feeds into what they grew up with is very different than "beast of no nation" and "child of soldier." >> a statement came out from the president of the academy. she says, this is a difficult but important conversation and it's time for big changes. in the coming days and weeks we will conduct a review of ur membership recruitment in order to bring out much-needed diversity in our 2016 class and beyond. what do you make of that? >> she's an african-american woman but she's an elected official. she governs the entire academy. it's like president obama saying i'm going to try and do all of these things but then you have a congress on either side that really doesn't want to help support you. i believe it should be term limits. i don't believe that if you did a movie in the '60s an '70s you should stillvoter for life. maybe you cycle out every six years but there should be a way for new blood and new vision. >> quickly. out of time. does this boycott mean anything or would it mean more if tom hanks and denzel washington and halle berry and julia roberts and people stopwatching at home? if those guys don't turn up and people turn off their televisions would the rating bs abysmal, would that mean more? >> if white hollywood wanted to show more that not having enough black people on the screen, yeah, don't come. let angelina jolie and all of her adopted black children not show up, let tom cruise and the other actors not show up. >> thanks for coming? 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"hotel california" certified platinum 16 times, frey's performance and songwriting skills helped send the eagles to soaring heights commercially. ♪ i've got a peaceful easy feeling ♪ ♪ i know you won't let me down ♪ because i'm already standing on the ground ♪ >> reporter: frey got his break as part of a back up band for rock star linda ronstadt. >> while touring are linda don and i told her we wanted to start our own band. she more than anyone else helped us put together the eagles. [ applause ] >> reporter: on the day frey died linda ronstadt remembered her friend and his talent when she spoke to anderson cooper. >> i remember mostly in that way, you know, the days before he was really well-known he was just going on raw courage and nerve and talent and plenty of talent. >> reporter: the eagles were formed in 1971 and would amass a collection of greatest hits that became america's best-selling album of the 20th century selling more copies than the beatles or michael jackson. frey's loss is immeasurable to his family, industry, and faps. everyone from stevie nicks to presidential candidate mike huckabee are paying tribute and, of course, his wing man don henley who sent a statement saying in part, he was funny, bull headed, generous, deeply talented, and driven. he loved his wife and kids more than anything. frksz rey and his band mates lived a rock 'n roll lifestyle for years excess was the norm but when it came to work, frey never missed a beat. >> he was a perfectionist. there was zero room for error with him. there was everything needed to be exactly where it should be. musically and technically, really is where i'm speaking from, technically, everything had to be right on point. >> reporter: eric scott did sound for four years on an eagles world tour. he now works at a sound designer for cnn. for scott, frey has meant so much more than just his music. >> you have a very personal story, don't you, about glenn frey. >> i do. . had it not been for glenn and the eagles i would have never met my wife. judy and i met on the eagles smep had done makeup for them on the rolling stones cover shoot and was hired on the spot gi glenn and i had been working on the tour. and that's where we met. >> reporter: to the scots and fans everywhere, losing frey was a shock. one consolation, his music lives on. ♪ so very long ago doesn't really seem ♪ >> sara is with me now in the studio. a lot of people say one of the reasons why the band was successful, perfectionist and that was all glenn frey. >> you know, the people who work we'd him when they talk about him, they're like, he liked to have fun, a jokester. but when it came down to the technicalities of what was being done and how everything sounded and how everything was performed, he wanted it to be perfect. not once but every single time. >> and it is a big loss and yet another big name gone of course after david bowie. you will be back next hour. we ran out of time for this hour. you will be back next hour. thank you. i'm john vause. there's a more enjoyable way to get your fiber. try phillips' fiber good gummies plus energy support. it's a new fiber supplement that helps support regularity and includes b vitamins to help convert food to energy. mmmmm, these are good! nice work, phillips! the tasty side of fiber, from phillips'. i tabut with my back paines, i couldn't sleep and get up in time. then i found aleve pm. aleve pm is the only one to combine a safe sleep aid plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. i'm back. aleve pm for a better am. this is "cnn newsroom" live from los angeles. ahead this hour, americans held captive by iran reyou noited with families. now the story behind iran's last-minute moves that nearly caused the deal to cocollapse. two corinthians. donald trump fumbles a scripture reference but will the bible flub have any affect on his courtship of evangelicals? and good-bye to another music legend. first david bowie and now the eagles glenn frey. thanks for staying with us. i'm john vause. another hour of "newsroom l.a." starts now. we begin with the first homecoming of the first of five americans released from prison in iran. matthew trevithick has arrived back in boston, went to tehran as a student but arrested and held for 40 days. trevithick's release was not part of the prisoner swap which freed four other americans. one of that group chose to stay in iran. the other three are recovering at a u.s. military hospital in germany. chief u.s. security correspondent jim sciutto has more on the prisoners' release and their homecoming. >> reporter: after a four-hour flight from tehran to geneva these were the american prisoners' first moments of freedom and first family reunions. jason rezaian, "washington post" journalist, freed after a year and a half jailed in iran. amir hekmati, former u.s. marine, freed after more than four years behind bars including a death ensentence. american pastor saeed abedini released after more than three years in jail. release had to pass one final unexpected obstacle, just before takeoff, iranian authorities tried to block jason's wife and mother from joining him onboard. i spoke today with rezaian's brother ali. >> the iranians threw up a roadblock at that point. what happened? >> the iranians have they have done all along continued to what i my late them and prevented her for leaving for some period of time but thanks to the swiss and the americans she came with him as well. >> reporter: rezaian, abedini, and hekmati are undergoing physical and psychological medical checks in a u.s. military hospital in landstuhl, germany, congressman who long advocated for hekmati's release joined the release. >> i carry it with me. i wear it almost all the time, this button that says" free amir." i guess i can flip it around and just have it say "amir free." >> reporter: surprise announcement came on the same day as the u.s. and iran announced the completion of the nuclear agreement which crucially brought an end to all economic sanctions against iran for its nuclear activities. >> you have said -- >> reporter: earlier in an interview with wolf in "the situation room" secretary of state john kerry denied the hostage's freedom depended on sanctions relief. >> no one really believes it's a coincidence on the day of the nuclear deal goes forward finally the americans are released from iran. >> well, it became convenient. it was not linked. >> reporter: events this weekend bring a fundamental change not just to relations between iran and u.s. but in iran's relationship with the world. ra iran now has access to $50 billion in frozen assets. it can sell its oil and gas freely on world markets, and western companies including american firms can now do business with iran for the first time in years. there are still two americans held by iran, an iranian-american businessman, and also robert levinson, former fbi employee who disappeared in 2007. i spoke with his family today and they said it is nonsense that iran does not know his whereabouts or his condition. jim sciutto, cnn, washington. the prisoner swap between the u.s. and ran is not without critics. many argue dangerous precedent where hostile regimes can detain americans on trumped mp charges and use them as bargaining chips with the united states. former adviser to general david petraeus. michael, i guess the events of the last week, prisoners being released, u.s. sailors released in 24 hours. nuclear deal implemented. the white house says it's a sign that diplomacy worked. what's wrong with this picture? >> all of those things sound great if you don't know what actually happened. we talk about the sailors being released, we don't talk about them being put on their knees and hands behind their heads and detained for 24 hours. when it comes to the hostages we need to know that we actually received our five innocent hostages back and released seven criminals. now, a lot of people don't know that the sanctions these seven iranians were actually convicted for are actually still in place. meaning they're not supposed to procure sensitive items or procure materials for a weaponized nuclear program yet they were still released. implementation day, day after implementation day we end up putting sanction on iran for ballistics missile testing. there's a lot to see in the last 72 hours based on what happened on implementation day. >> but do you at least acknowledge that these two countries are talking? i guess you can talk about who has the upper hand and how it's working. diplomacy better than confrontation? >> i believe that relationships have been established. i believe that zarif and kerry have a good relationship. i believe we're able to reach out to rat ro hani but i still believe all decisions made by the supreme leader and the supreme leader and his revolutionary guard are not big fans of this iran deal. i hope that the moderates actually win. but when you look at what happened just yesterday with 99% of reformist candidates disqualified from running in february's election, you have to look at things like that, too. those are tangible things happening on the ground in iran that we have to pay attention to. >> yeah, i guess looking forward here, let's say, you know, hypothetical situation. let's say the two other americans, the other u.s. citizens arrested, let's say if they're released the iranians keep to their point, keep to their side of the agreement on the nuclear deal, would you change your position and then say, hey, it looks like this might just be working? >> of course. i'm not married to my assessment. just indicators and warnings guy. i've been looking at iran for a long time. we know the actors that were bad seven years ago got a paycheck yesterday. mohammed, commander of the besiege that put down the 2009 revolution with bullets, he got a paycheck yesterday. sullemani, terrorist general, got a paycheck yesterday. these are things that you start to look at. i'm not married to this assessment. if this works out i will be the first one to say it worked out. i can tell you right now if the president asked the american intelligence community to provide him evidence that iran is already cheating they would be able to. that's how much we know iran and that's how much we know this regime. >> very, very quickly, you seem to have the impression contrary to what i guess a lot of people are saying right now that the moderates have the upper hand. you believe it's the hard liners still calling the shots. >> the hard liners are able to say look what we did, look what we got. the reformers didn't get this. they still had to ask permission. you look at the reformist candidates disqualified yesterday from running in february's elections in iran and that's an indicator as to who has the upper hand. we want this to be a moderating events if iran's navy would have simply assisted our navy, then we would have seen video of them reaching out hands and giving them water botings and fixing engines. that would have been a better pr move. if we would have got our five hostages back yesterday without conditions that would have been a moderating event. we're just not seeing those things yet. again today, the day after we just put sanctions on iran for ballistic missile testing iran has already come back and said, this is propaganda move by a hostile government in the u.s. and we will accelerate our missile programs. so we're looking for moderated events. we're just not seeing them yet. it does take time. >> michael, good to speak with you. thank you for that. >> thanks. cnn's wolf blitzer sat down with u.s. secretary of state john kerry and asked him to explain why the u.s. took a diplomatic approach to iran despite the continued tension and hostility. >> the alternative is far more dangerous for our country and for the region. it is imperative as a matter of fundamental principles of diplomacy, of multi-lateral relations and, frankly, of wielding to great power of potentially going to war that you exhaust all the diplomatic possibilities before you ask young men and women, americans and others, perhaps to put their lives on the line. that's fundamental, wolf. the president has been courageous and steadfast in making it clear that he would pursue diplomacy first. >> has the iranian mindset changed, have they abandoned their ambition to have a nuclear bomb? >> the supreme leader agreed in the iran agreement, it is firmly embraced within the agreement that iran will never seek a nuclear weapon. and they have embraced a set of verification measures which give us the ability, i mean, as long as the agreement is in existence, to be able to access sites that are questionable and to be able to enforce those through the iaea. so we have lost nothing here. we have gained. >> have they made nuclear ambition? >> they say they have. >> do you believe it? >> that's why we have verification in this agreement. >> do you believe that they have abandoned that nuclear ambition? >> it is to be proven by the process going forward around the verification of this agreement. as president obama has said, it's not built on trust. i've said that. hundreds of times. this is not built on trust, bofbof wolf. this is built on a meticulously negotiated set of requirements. >> if the u.s. intelligence community or anybody else has suspicions that something is going on that you don't know about, you notify the iranians, you want to inspect that facility. how many days do they have to potentially clean it up? >> well, there's a 24 of hour period before they have to -- >> 24-hour period? >> before they have to respond to the request for access. there's then a period of days, 21, 14 days initially, and then it's reported to the joint commission which is us, germany, france, brit taain, china, russ we would decide whether or not we want to take action, go to the u.n. security council. our belief is that is the kind of accountability that is going to allow us to continue to move forward with the -- with the implementation of this agreement. donald trump is wrapping up his push for the evangelical vote with two weeks to go before the iowa caucuses. the republican front-runner is trying to chip away with rival ted cruz' base. dana bash reports on trump's speech to thousands of christian students. >> we're going of have some fun. right? >> reporter: appearing at virnl's liberty university is a rite of passage for gop presidential candidates. even donald trump who drew a big crowd beyond students required to attend. >> i want a general where we knock the hell of out them. >> reporter: he stumbled a bit quoting scripture. >> i hear this is a major theme, right? two corinthians, 3:17. that's the whole ball game. where the spirit of the lord, right, where the spirit of the lord is, there is liberty. >> reporter: it's second corinthians, not two. a moment showing sharp contrast with ted cruz who comfortably leads bible verses into speeches. >> how can you know that i will follow through on the promises on the first day of office and every day afterwards? as the scripture has said, you shall know them by their fruits. >> reporter: but so far polls show evangelicals like trump despite him not talking the talk of a typical republican trying to reach them. >> it seems donald has a lot of nervous nernl. >> reporter: still a big part of the cruz/trump escalating war is a personality and character contest. >> he's a nasty guy. nobody liksz him. nobody in i don't think likes him. nobody likes him anywhere once they get to know him. he's a very -- he's got an edge that's not good. >> reporter: today cruz responded to being called nasty with a classically cruz pop culture reference. ♪ nasty boys >> reporter: cruz is no longer laughing trump off. he is now following jeb bush's lead, questioning trump's conservative credentials. >> ronald reagan was a voice of consistency. and i'm pretty sure that ronald reagan didn't write checks and support democratic politicians. >> reporter: and at cruz super pac released this new tv ad trying to paint trump as a hypocrite by playing truch in his own words praising cruz. >> but he really is a special -- >> reporter: as for trump his campaign clearly knows they have some image softening to go. going up on new hampshire radio with a testimonial from his daughter ivankivanka. >> when i was a young girl my father donald trump always 20to me i could do anything i set my mind to if i coupled vision and determination and hard work. >> trump didn't just call cruz nasty. he went after him in a twitter tirade for taking money from wall street and much, much more. but that was all over the weekend. come monday, here in new hampshire and earlier in virginia, not one word about cruz. perhaps because trump has been getting some blowback from conservative talk radio hosts who have a lot of influence with republican voters, warning trump not to go too far and alienating cruz voters who may also be potential trump voters. dana bash, cnn, concord, new hampshire. joining us now, john thomas, republican consultant, thanks for being with us. okay. let's get into this. can trump, who clearly has credibility issues when it comes to the bible and religion. not his -- can he actually out maneuver ted cruz here, somebody who for evangelicals is the real deal when it comes to his faith. >> he is. ted cruz' father was a pastor. you're not going to out religion ted cruz but you can force ted cruz to defend his religion. and every second that ted cruz is not attacking donald trump on his turf is a good thing for donald trump. so donald trump trying to talk talk and i got to give trump credit although he clearly not a natural in that environment, he did classic trumpisms which is take political correctness and throw it out the window. we're going to say merry christmas in every department store. i don't know how -- what the president has to do about that. but that's what that base does want to hear and he did it well. >> you remarked on the reaction from the crowd. they knew this was pandering but -- >> look, that's right, and a broader statement about the gop electorate who like trump, they don't think he's a purist. nobody says i like trump because he's a purist. they like him because he's angry and he says it like it is. they don't care what he said before. >> dana was reporting that trump was trying to stay away from commenting on ted cruz but he can't help himself. in the last couple of hours he tweeted out this. i don't think ted cruz can even run for president until he can assure republican voters that being born in canada is not a problem. doubt! okay. if oh we let's read into the details here. clearly he has moved from the i'm the big hearted guy who ask just worried about ted and now he's saying, listen, there's a problem here. what's going on with trump, why the change in strategy? >> whether or not truch thinks there's a problem he saw the media was biting and it's really tight in iowa. too close to call. so he has to lob everything he's got at ted cruz and that was the one thing that seemed to be sticking. and so you've got to push it. >> okay. trump calling cruz really nasty. i mean rg that's something coming from probably the nastiest guy in the field. >> that's just like when he says you're a deviant. almost comical. >> it is. but if we -- dana reported on this as well. rush limbaugh, big voice, popular talk back radio show. when he starts calling trump out, that is not a good idea. does trump head down a road where there are big potential problems for him? >> there is. but trump has been teflon because he's running not just against the democrats but he's running against establishment figures. and rush limbaugh, while he has a big audience, he is establishment gop. >> okay. two weeks to go. business end of the season. >> every day is a week in politics at this point. anything can happen for the next two weeks. stay tuned, john. it's going to be exciting. >> we'll have you back. still to come, financial markets are reacting. the economy in china is still growing but not nearly as fast as it once was. live in beijing and hong kong with the latest. plus, remember this guy? 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>> well, absolutely. they did come in as a government said they would. and can we trust these headline numbers? if you take a strong poll of economists and watches around the world the answer would be a resounding no. but look at the markets, john. that is a positive reaction to these numbers. i've been reading a lot of instant reaction from the economists both in china, hong kong indeed in ore this countries. and the overwhelming line coming out is, this is china stabilizing. at least for the last six months. so this is a good sign. because you remember there has been big sell-offs globally on partly at least fears that china is heading for a hard landing that the black box that is the chinese economy is in actually much worse shape than everyone thought. but looking at these numbers and listening to the response it's not talking abouthandings. in fact, i spoke to china's richest man, the biggest commercial property company in china, he's got his finger on the pulse as well. and i asked him whether he thought china was in for a hard landing or potentially hard landing. listen to what he had to say. >> translator: i do not only the use the word not but stress absolutely not. in fact, there will not be a hard landing at all for china's economy. the main reason is there is a fast demand for the service industry in china. >> this is what we're seeing, john. this transition of the chinese economy away from manufacturing, away from exports and heville investment into more consumer led growth, that is under way. it's going to take a long time. it's going to be a very, very rocky ride as we've seen from the falling grdp numbers but it is happening. it's too early to say this is the worse it's going to get. a lot of banks including the imf now says that growth will be weaker again this year. but right now the fear of china falling off a cliff is receding. >> yeah, i guess it's all about whether they can turn around, make that move from the export driven economy to this consumption driven model. really good guess speaking to china's richest man. thank you for that. giving us very valuable insight. still to come, aussie open under way in melbourne but allegations of match fixing is causing a shadow over the first tennis major of the year. itswhen you're engineeredct to literally to drive circles around the competition. thanks for staying with us, everybody. just coming up to 10:28 on a monday night in los angeles. i'm jop vaushn vause with the headlines. the first of the americans released from last weekend is home in the united states. student matthew trevithick arrived in boston monday. he was held for 40 days in iran. his release was separate from the prisoner swap which freed four other americans. iraqi authorities are searching a baghdad neighborhood for three missing american contractors. iraqi security official says gunmen kidnaped a men from a brothel on friday. investigators are trying to determine if the men were lured to the brothel. belgian man with suspected ties to the terror attacks in paris last november arrested in morocco. he met with the alleged ring leader, french law enforcement also say he traveled to syria with one of the paris suicide bombers in 2013. china's economy still growing but at the weakest rate in 25 years. gdp for 2015 game in at 6.9%. pretty much in line with government expectations. certainly over the slowing chinese economy has been a key factor in plunging financial markets all around the world. leyton hewitt will play the first match of the 20th and final appearance at the australian open about 90 minutes from now. he announced he would retire after this tournament. that and everything else in tennis is being overshadowed by explosive allegations of wide spread match fixing at the highest level. bbc and buzzfeed news say they sooed secret files accusing several top rank players rf throwing matches in exchange for payment but the governing bodies deny suppressing any evidence of wrong doing. the top men's player novak djokovic has weighed in and said he was indirectly approached to throw a match for $200,000 back in 2007 but djokovic still insisted it was not a match fixing problem within the sport's upper echelon. let's bring you in live from melbourne this hour. ravi, andy murray just finished a news conference. what's he saying about these allegations and match fixing? >> john, he felt that, first of all, he wants more education, so when younger players are coming up, if they are approached in these situations, he wants to let them know where they can go, where they should be going to get more guidance. that's number one. he also said that he has never been approached and of course after novak djokovic said she was many people were wondering was murray ever approached. he confirmed he had not been. number three, transparency. that's one of the buzz words over the last couple of days. he just wants more transparency. what is going on, who is being investigated. how many matches are involved in these type of situations. and i spoke with the head of the atp who has been really the figure head the last couple of days for the governing bodies, asked him that question of transparency. what can we say about that. he said it's very difficult because you have to go very sensitive. there are libel issues. you can't name names. it's a bit of a really tightrope for the tour in that respect. >> in general, ravi, this is a big question now everyone is being asked about match fixing, approached, taking payment, what the involvement has been. how much of these reports from the bbc and buzzbuzzfeed, how m is this over shad deing the start of the aussie open? >> it's overshadowing play a lot, john, because every press conference they're getting these questions. in fact, probably get the first couple of questions soften things up talking about the match but in the meat of the press conference they're being asked about match fixing, asking for the reports. so yesterday all the big names in our sport in tennis were talking about this. roger federer, djokovic, maria sharapova, serena williams, today and later hearing from raf fell nadal. even today there had been very, very long matches, dramatic stuff on the court but it's still match fixing which is dominating a little bit. not as much as yesterday but still the bulk of it today. >> yeah, this story will go on for a while. ravi, thank you. reporting live from melbourne. staying with theal investigations of match fixing with tennis. from melbourne we head to new york, a reporter from buzzfeed news. he spent more than a year analyzing the tennis results and betting. john, your story in a minute and research you did because you spent a lot of time on this. do you think it's fair to put this information out there, raise suspicions and just kind of leave it hanging without naming names? essentially putting every player right now under a cloud? >> the reason we didn't name names is because we were really interested in putting kind of the onus on the tennis authorities to actually do something about match fixing in tennis. and we thought it was more powerful to say there are 70 players flagged to them that have not been sanctioned and also that there are these top level, this group of 16 who have been flagged multiple times and haven't faced any sanctions. we feel like those things are more important than naming one person in particular and kind of tarring them with the match fixing brush. >> let's get to your data analysis. let's get to your numbers here. you ran a million computer simulations per player and with that you reached this point that 23 first round match necessary professional tournaments manipulated or out right fixed every year? how did you get to that number? >> that's not my number. that's from another academic study, i should note. the number we came up with is the 15 players who have suspicious movements in their prematches and that results in them losing far more often than would be expected. so in our analysis what we did was we took these prematch odds and simulated them a million times to see how many matches that you should have lost and it turned out some of the players lost way more than they should have in those circumstances. >> okay. so when you look at your analysis of these tennis matches and the betting, you say basically raises red flags here. specifically to do with some players. but you say it is inconclusive because, what, betting patterns alone are not proof. >> that's exactly right. and you know, you have to do more investigation. i think investigatorers in 2008 proved that by showing you have to look at the individual players and what's going on in their relationships. so they looked at the phones of the player, they looked at who they were texting and the communication before the match. and those types of things are what you need in order to prove that match fixing is going on. the betting patterns alone send a strong signal. and that's what's tiu seems to be ignoring. >> but doesn't that get back to what tennis officials have been saying over the past 24 hours, they investigate when they have suspicion and think say they have been investigating but they'll take action when they have evidence. do you not buy that? >> well, we don't think they're investigating as much as they say they are, i guess. we've spoken to a number of people who have said that they've given information to the authorities, and then they've never followed up with it for information that would be vital in terms of doing more analysis and figuring out if the match was actually thrown. so if you're not going back to the bookmakers and you're not asking for specifics about the matches, then how are you able to do that investigating? that's kind of what we're highlighting in our piece. >> very quickly. how difficult is it to prove corruption here especially if you investigators can't getting access to phone and computer records? >> so they can get access to phone and computer records under their corruption policy. so if the players don't give it they're allowed to sanction them for not giving it to them. i think they need to be more vigilant about get that information. >> john, it is a great read. it's a fascinating data analysis the way you pit ut it all toget. i recommend to everybody to head over to buzzfeed to read your piece. >> thank you. still to come here on "cnn newsroom" this viral video is at the center of a lawsuit. after the break find out why the uber passenger is now taking his driver to court. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ if yand you're talking toevere rheumyour rheumatologiste me, about a biologic... this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain and protect my joints from further damage. this is humira giving me new perspective. doctors have been prescribing humira for ten years. humira works for many adults. it targets and helps to block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to ra symptoms. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers, including lymphoma, have happened, as have blood, liver, and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure. before treatment, get tested for tb. tell your doctor if you've been to areas where certain fungal infections are common, and if you've had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have flu-like symptoms or sores. don't start humira if you have an infection. talk to your doctor and visit humira.com this is humira at work i filed my taxes online with h&r block for $9.99. na na na? 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>> interesting. there has been a reported case from the california appellate courts indicating it does apply to videos as well. and again, all of this is ground in individual rights to control how their communications are disseminated but one of the thorny legal issues here is whether this is a confidential communication, because people who are just out in public, they can be recorded when they have no expectation of privacy. here it's a little bit -- >> gray area. >> certainly a gray area. >> when you sue someone for millions of dollars you normally go after deep pockets. i'm guessing the uber driver doesn't have millions of dollars. >> may not have that. certainly plaintiffs counsel better be coming up with a theory to implicate uber obviously. >> they've got it. >> yes. they're just launching their new helicopter products. i think they've got some money to throw around. and the other thing that's very interesting, you have to keep in mind the context here, there's also a pending case in criminal court. and the more that the waters can be muddied as the result of this civil conflict, the more that he might use that to his advantage. >> okay. look at this. the days after this story broke, golden made aer have public apology. let's look at this. >> i've seen the video a couple of times. and it's not me in the video. you know, it's not me. and it was hard to watch. i'm ashamed. what's taken me so long to talk to anybody is because i've been scared. i lost my job. i don't have a lot of resources behind me, you know. so i was -- i just didn't know what to do. this has been -- it's been overwhelming. and at the end of the day, i messed up. i crossed the line. right? >> at the end of the day i messed up, i crossed the line. what's the relevance of this case? >> words that may return to haunt him. and as i like to remind people, the right to remain silent only works if you choose to exercise it. so generally it's wise to shut up and let your lawyer do the talking. and i think that's one of the key learnings that we can take away from this. and that is, it doesn't necessarily make great sense for the client, heim or herself, ge out there and make those statements. that's why you want a professional mouthpiece. >> is he going to win anything? what are his chances? >> i think he actually has some decent chances if the court aligns with the idea that what happened in the back of that cab really did meet the definition for having a legitimate expectation of privacy. >> okay. >> i think he's god some good argument there's. court of public opinion is going to see it differently. >> don't tweet me. tweet you. >> i don't make the law. just reporting it. >> thank you. we'll take a short break here. when we come back, sad news when we come back. the music world losing another legend, the life and career of glenn frey, co-founder of the glenn frey, co-founder of the legendary eagles. aren't moving in the right direction, it can be a burden. but what if you could wake up to lower blood sugar? 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>> i do. had it not been for glenn and the eagles, i would have never met my wife. we met on the eagles -- she had done makeup for them on the rolling stones cover shoot, and then wasúkj&4d on the spot by glenn, and i had been working on the tour, and that's where we met. >> to the scotts and8/uc fans everywhere, losing frey was a shock. the one consolation, his music lives on. ♪ so very long ago doesn't really seem so long ♪ >> we are joined now. when i heard this news a few hours ago, i was like, not another one. david bowie, just a week or so ago, 69. another natalie cole. i guess we're at the point3m whe all these legends of value that we grew up with, they've reached that point. >> it's hard. when you consider the age, 67 -- >> it's not old. >> exactly. >> in today's world, that's not old. >> but he was not in great health. >> these were hard core rock and roll stars and they lived that kind of lifestyle for a long time, and some of them changed and started doing less excess. but there was a lot going on there, and i think if you look back at some of the lives of sort of the things they got into and did, it's hard on your body, but these are people who have left a mark that is unerasable. the music is out there forever. new generations are picking it up. i couldn't help myself. i went next door to ameba. that's the largest independent -- legendary. the largest independent shop that sells vinyl, and everything else. and i picked this up, and it was -- they have a message on one of them saying rip, glenn frey. this is one of their signature songs. >> i think for many people, maybe i'm wrong, it was a sound track of a part of growing up. you know, of sort of that easy listening, maybe going to a bar on a sunday afternoon or just hanging out and chilling. >> yeah. it wasn't bang your head music. it wasn't the kind of music that made you get up and jump around and dance. it was kind of a southern california style music, and people associate it because hotel california, but did you know that only one of the members of the eagles was actually from california? 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>> it's incredibly important. i think what needs to be remembered is this deal makes the region and united states safer. it was always about preventing iran from achieving nuclear weapons capability. it does that, and we have a verification regime in place to make sure it does that in coming years. it's very, very important. >> what about the latest sanctions slapped on some iranian individuals and companies shortly after the prisoners left the iranian air space in this is about the ballistic missile test they did. the response today from iran has been pom bbombastic. the defense minister saying there goes america showing its true faith. >> we have been candid about the fact that we're going to continue to hold iran accountable for their other activities. the iran deal was separate. we have long maintained tools at our disposal to deal with the other things in the region. whether it's state sponsorship of terrorists, or this ballistic missile program. we said before that we were going to hold them accountable for that program. and we're holding them to account for it. >> let me ask you the wider picture. obviously many people are looking at this as if it's more than just a nuclear deal. that it could herald better relations in other fields. is that the sense from the state department? how are you looking at this? >> we're looking at it pragmatically from a perspective of making sure that iran does not get a nuclear weapon. a nuclear bomb. we believe that all the problems in the middle east are only made worse if you're dealing with an iran with that capability. that said, if the iran deal negotiations were to lead to a change, a productive change in behavior by iran and the region, that's a good thing. that's a benefit, and certainly we would hope to see that. we haven't seen at large, any such change in conduct. they just conducted ballistic missile tests in the fall. we know that they continue to support terrorist networks. there hasn't been any main change in tehran, if it were to come to pass, if that were the result, we think that would be a good thing. >> you say there has been no other changes. there have been some public diplomatic results over the past 24, 48 hours and the past week. the prisoner swap, and also the quick resolution of the sailor situation in the persian gulf. this is a direct result of a person to person contact. >> right. there's no question about that. i was remiss in mentioning that in the last answer. there's no question that the iran deal opened up communication through secretary kerry and the foreign minister to get to other things in the region. not just the sailors, getting them home safe and sound after less than 24 hours. obviously getting the freed americans who were unjustly detained, getting them back home. but also in the syria political process. iran is at the table in the international syria support group. they've been in these discussions. we want them to be in the discussions. in the secretary's conversations, he's indicated their commitment to stay at the work and to try to get a political solution in syria. there are channels now that are opened up because of the iran deal that we didn't have before. as the secretary said, if our sailors, those ten sailors had been take an year ago, they would still be in iran. we would not be able to get them out because we wouldn't have a direct way to communicate with the iranian authorities to negotiate that release. >> thank you for joining us on this day. >> my pleasure. and now for the first reaction here on cnn from inside iran. influential iranian economist who is a former advisor to the previous reform president, and he's close to the government. he joins me now by phone from tehran. welcome to the program. let me start by asking you, what is the feeling in iran today now that these sanctions have been released? >> obviously everybody is happy and everybody is optimistic about the future, because a big thing was the move of the economy at the moment, and the feel, generally speaking, that we are having a new year in the country about the economy, about the international relationships, and so on. >> well, let me ask you. both sides are saying that this is just a nuclear deal. as you know, the supreme leader of iran, says there's no other close relations with the united states. it's just this deal. and in the united states, they're saying this is just very pragmatic. do you think behind the scenes there is a desire to open up further? >> if you look at the whole general situation in the whole region, you can see that the -- between two colors in iraq and afghanistan and syria is going day by day. we are going to have some common ground, some mutual interest between two countries, and all of these, the base on these, i cannot believe that the only -- nuclear deal. they are cooperating, actually, above their security situation in the whole region. and this is only the talks between two countries. >> let me ask you about many in iran hope. this is suddenly going to a whole lot more revenue and that people will immediately start to see an improvement in their situation. do you think that things are going to move that fast? >> the main problems in the economy oft4ñ iran are still ine seam. for example, lack of good investment. lack of productivity, and the most important thing in my opinion, is corruption, which is in the country. but we are hopeful about the future and it seems that we can have at least three to five to six person economy grows. the next coming iranian year, which is the first after six or seven years. >> thank you for joining me tonight from tehran. now, after a break, one family's euphoria after this global victory for diplomacy. one speaks to me about his brother, "the washington post" journalist who's been released after 545 days in an iranian prison. free at long last. next. the biggest challenge for business today is not competition, it's protecting customer trust. every day you read headlines about governments and businesses being hacked, emails compromised, and intellectual property being stolen. that is cyber-crime, and it affects each and every one of us. microsoft created the digital crimes unit to investigate and fight cyber crime. we use the microsoft cloud to visualize information, so we can track down the criminals. using our advanced analytics tools, analysis that used to take days to run, we can now see in real time. and we're building what we learn back into the cloud to make people and organizations safer. when it comes to the cloud, trust and security are paramount. our passion is making life tougher for cyber criminals, and making it safer for you and your customers. welcome back to the program. 545 days behind bars. now he's out and undergoing medical checkup at a u.s. air base in germany. jas jason. today i spoke to his brother, alley, at the air base about his health. >> welcome to the program. >> thank you for having me on. >> this must be a fantastic day. 18 months later and shocked nerves on all sides. >> you know, just coming down to the last minute. this is amazing. jason has been held four times as long as any other reporter ever in iran. we never could have thought this would have happened for such a long time. with all the other things going on, finally it happened. finally jason is on his way home. we're grateful. >> how does he feel? how is he holding up? what's his physical condition? because he does have diabetes, and i know the family was all very concerned about how he was being treated, how he was being medicated and fed in prison. >> you know, right now jason is going through that process of working with the doctors here to make sure that he gets what he needs. i think they're working him up. he's only been here about 12 hours. i'm hoping i can see him soon and get that information for you. but right now a lot of it is just about his emotional and psychological help and making sure he's ready to be successful when he comes back into the world. he's been locked away for 18 months without information about what's going on in the world, without information about what's really happening, and he just really has been isolated. >> what about your mother? i've interviewed her. she has been so stoic. she's been there throughout much of his ordeal. she tried to go to the courtroom each time she heard he might be taken to court. how much access did she have to him during trials and prison, and how is she holding up? >> she's back here with us in the housing. i think she's just exhausted, because none of them have been sleeping very much. she's trying to take care of her right now. during the trial process, my mom had really no access to him. she wasn't allowed at the trial or into the courts. she was able to meet with the judge but not with jason. she was able to meet with jason almost weekly for the last three or four months. so they could have a meeting with jason and my mom on tuesdays. so that was good, and i think that helped jason keep on going through the summer and get through all this stuff as they were really causing him lots of problems and abusing their own judicial system such that they weren't following their rules and jason was in limbo for months and months. >> was he physically abused? >> you know, jason and i haven't spoken about that. he has in the past always said he was not physically harmed, but we haven't spoken anymore 7ltát that sinc out. >> can you tell me what precisely he thinks caused him to be arrested? i mean, the official charges include espionage and he was sentenced, right? details. it was all so cloak and dagger. >> we know what the charges were. we don't know what he was convicted of or what the purported sentence was, but honestly, i haven't spoken to him about it to say is there a single trigger? at this point, it's the same conjecture i would have had a couple days ago. i'm sure he has some opinions about that, but i don't have any more information. >> all right. well, we congratulate you and your family. send our best to jason and your mother and his wife. we're glad this story has a happy ending. >> i appreciate it. thanks for having me on. >> a happy ending for a family and several others. there could also be new cooperation between iran and the u.s. on flighting global terror. how will this all affect syria where the u.s. and iran are on opposite sides? after the break, we look at the struggle in france. atika schubert has an exclusive report. then, woosh, it's gone. i swear i saw it swallow seven people. seven. i just wish one of those people could have been mrs. johnson. 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[ speaking foreign language ]>á [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: at first her mother put it up to teenage rebel yan. when her daughter called her an infidel, she called the national hot line to alert authorities. >> i felt really bad. i was feeling guilty. our first reaction is to feel guilty as a mom. he try to find out why our child has changed. we think of what we could have done to prevent this from happening. we were always fighting with each other. >> she says the program has allowed a way for her to reconnect with her family and still maintain her faith far from the toxic ideology of isis. >> i made the decision not to get a new phone. it's better this way. i need to learn how to think by myself. without a phone and internet, there's no one to tell me what to do anymore. for now, i don't feel like going back on social media. i'm afraid that one day i'll feel lonely and i'll fall into the trap again. i received loads of messages from them. i was constantly in touch with them. my phone, it was like my baby. >> reporter: what advice do you have for other girls like you and how to not fall into those same traps? >> translator: you should always be careful on the internet. don't go there. don't speak with them. don't take any risk. for those who are already radicalized, please open your eyes to reality. don't go to syria. it's suicide. it's death. >> reporter: there are some days when she's confident. she still fears relapse. she won't touch a computer with internet access. it's a daily struggle. especially for a girl so young. cnn, paris. >> an amazing story, and tomorrow on this program, more of atika's exclusive report. she meets a young woman lured to isis and locked away in one of their jails. how she escaped and what she does to save other vulnerable muslims. that's it for us tonight. you can now always listen to our pod cast and see us online at amanpour.com, and you can follow me on facebook and twitter. we leave you with a first. the first flower to ever bloom in space courtesy of scott kelley who we also interviewed from space last month. thanks for watching and good-bye from london. ♪ ♪ it was always just a hobby. something you did for fun. until the day it became something much more. and that is why you invest. the best returns aren't just measured in dollars. ♪ the gillette mach 3 turbo still feels better after 10 shaves than a disposable on it's first. mach 3 blades have twice the coatings. for a closer shave with zero redness. get an incredible experience shave after shave after shave. gillette. the best a man can get. >> this is "cnn newsroom." we want to welcome our viewers joining us from the united states right now. and, of course, welcome back our international viewers. i'm errol barnett. >> i'm rosemary church. it's time to update you on the stories we've been watching this hour. moroccan authorities have arrested a man for suspected ties to the deadly attacks in paris last november. french and moroccan authorities say he knew the terrorists well. french law enforcement officials say he traveled with one of the bombers in 2013. >> this information just into