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
society will operate. how the government should operate to root that out. imagine in normal times, a headline like russian attacks against the u.s. continue. that would obviously require an amazingly rapid and forceful response. here, i don t know that we exactly have the game plan about what to do. finally, we have a report coming up, an extensive one on puerto rico. but i know of all the jobs you ve had, you speak so affectionately about the time you spent in and around your colleagues at the pentagon. tell our viewers what the pentagon can do, if they are freed up to do it with the natural disaster like this? i was in the pentagon in the fall of 2012 when superstorm sandy hit new york and secretary pin et ta and the entire military leadership sprung into action to deploy resources. because nobody can do logistics, nobody can deliver air drops of
i was in the pentagon in the fall of 2012 when superstorm sandy hit new york and secretary pin et ta and the entire military leadership sprung into action to deploy resources. because nobody can do logistics, nobody can deliver air drops of fuel and of supplies, nobody can conduct an amphibious landing lie the u.s. department of defense. we have the people, and the resources. i spoke to mitch landrieu, who was in washington talking about the lessons learned from katrina. if you get 48 hours or 72 hours behind a storm, it is very hard to catch up. you re basically looking at cascading problems, one on top of the other on top of the other. right now it appears the problem du jour is they don t have drivers, because they can t get to work because there s no gas in their tanks because the gas tanks have no electricity. but if the military is deployed, if they re deployed rapidly, i believe the humanitarian
humanitarian crisis. thank you for that. i write a whole chapter about syria in my book hard choices, and i call it a wicked problem because it is. and in the book, i obviously write about what is now publicly known. i recommended that we do more in the very beginning to support moderate opposition. because i believed at the time that they would be overwhelmed by as sad s military force and that they would open up the door to extremists coming in. i worked with general petraeus, then at the cia secretary pin net ta, then at dod. we made a presentation about how we thought that kind of vetting and training and equipment equipping could go. and it would not be a big operation by the united states but it would show whose side we were on and it would begin i hoped to tip the balance. that hasn t happened until recently but now we are involved in doing more on behalf of that.
pipeline which starts in alberta, imagine going right and left, and obviously the environmental concerns. and just to be clear, and perhaps we don t even know the answer to this yet, it s just a done deal in terms of an out and out service of this document, the administration from the state department really taking the lead on this, or is this a, quote, unquote, delay? the nation has made it clear they don t necessarily object to the pipeline, they object to the timeline in which they ve been forced to make a decision. they said given more time, this is something that potentially could be approved. but the bottom line is that there have been they feel they ve been forced to make a decision in an unrealistic time period and they re not going to do it because of the potential fallout. now, brooke, it s not necessarily done because congress still has proposed other work-arnounds and republicans in congress could still play different cards and try to force a decision in oth