Americans were moved from tehrans Notorious Eivin Prison to a hotel guarded by iranian officials earlier today. Cnns Christiane Amanpour was first to break the story. She also spoke with one of the Iranian American detainees in an unprecedented interview from the prison back in march. She joins us now. Christiane, Siamak Namazi took a huge risk talking to you, but it does seem his message has been heard. Reporter well, lets hope so because he was desperate. And youre absolutely right. He told me desperate times, you know, mean you have to take desperate measures. And it was an extraordinary thing for somebody to be able to take a phone call out of eivin. He had been in nearly eight years, so he had some privileges like the ability to use a phone. But never had this been allowed to the press, and he didnt get permission. He just did it. But it just goes to show how desperate they were and how they absolutely wanted to get their message in front and center of the Biden Administration to
Investigation goes from here. Hi, david. Hi, gillian and sandra. Safe bet this investigation is now prolonged for at least the next several months now that david weiss is Special Counsel. All that talk about whether or not david weiss requested Special Counsel Status from Attorney General garland, talk about the plea deal in delaware, throw all of that out the window now that he is Special Counsel. And saying david weiss asked for the status, the trumpappointed u. S. Attorney investigating the president s son for several years will continue. Attorney general Merrick Garland decided to give him special County Status after Plea Deal Negotiations fell through. In a new Court Filing Shows during the july 26, 2023, hearing, the defendant pled not guilty. Since that time they have engaged in further negotiations but are at impasse. The government believes it will not resolve short of a trial. I am committed to making as much of his report public as possible, consistent with legal requirement
and suspicious network of companies used to enrich the biden family by more than $10 million. this comes as the g.o.p. presses the fbi for a document that supposedly details a whistleblower s claim that then vice president biden sold his influence for money a document that no one has seen as of yet. the fbi, however, is now responding correspondent david spunt starts us off tonight from the justice department. good evening, david. good evening, bret. we know right now that republicans are calling this judgment day for president biden and his family using bank records. they say they are taking their investigation all the way to the oval office. this committee is investigating president biden and his family s shady business deals that capitalize on joe biden s public office and risked our country s national security. house oversight committee chairman james comer went page by page through new evidence that he says shows the biden family and associates made more than $10 m
million fentanyl pills found in the border town of tijuana known to be used by cartels as a manufacturing ground for counterfeit tablets. also this week a texas grandmother and 7-year-old granddaughter were killed in a car crash that involved human smugglers. dana: terror watch listen counters are on track to outpace last year s record as democrats continue to turn a blind eye to the crisis. bill: all 15 democratic members of the house homeland security committee boycotting that field hearing at the border. democratic senator mark kelly questioning the wisdom of that move. what would you say to democrats who didn t go to that hearing? i think it is always beneficial to go and visit a place and do it with your republican colleagues. you will get a better result. get more relevant questions from both sides. it affects the entire country. this has an impact on all 50 states. dana: president biden now reenacting some of his predecessor s border policies. the left wing h
In the faulkner focus. House republicans need 218 votes to proceed with an Impeachment Inquiry. There are 222 republicans in the house chamber. We know of at least five of them holding out. Here is what has happened with the biden family to get us to this point. Three separate gopled committees are investigating allegations that hunter biden leveraged his fathers government positions to secure big money foreign Business Deals. The key question, did president benefit . If so, by how much . Here is former arkansas governor mike huckabee. They need to continue the methodical and Ongoing Investigation of these phony companies that the biden family created. The foreign money they got. But the inquiry is one thing. They should definitely conduct it. What they need to be careful about is going ahead with a full blown Impeachment Vote because once they do that, it goes to the senate and it dies in less than five minutes. Now you have empowered biden. Harris top Oversight Democrat jamie raskin