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
did you ever see them talk about it, hear them talk about it? was no. i don t have knowledge of that. though i d assume it. you would assume it. so it s enough to be sitting in a meal at lake como with your new ukrainian friends and your dad happens to call, let s put him on speaker. i think that s that s enough. that s the second most powerful man in the world. it s just how the world works. so it s assumptions, it s how the world works. but again, just looking for evidence because we re talking about impeachment here. i don t see any evidence of any crime. and frankly, that is how the world works in washington, d.c. and if you guys are going to launch an effort to try to reform washington so people who are powerful can t have their wives and children and husbands and others traffic on that relationship, you know, i ll be first in line to help you out. but it doesn t seem like you re trying to do that. it seems like you re just trying
reform washington so we don t have this sad conversation next year and the year after about we have another mass shooting. we have another white nationalist attack and we re doing nothing about it. it s time for americans to take back the democracy. and that has to come from the outside. i give you credit. you re putting your money where your mouth is and you re in the arena. like teddy roosevelt, it s better to be in the arena than standing outside it, mouthing slogans. thank you for that. tom steyer, thank you for coming on the program. thank you, chris. up next, one thing democrats need to learn from the other side. you have to beat the other side. the way you have to do it is get tough and play some hardball. i like that word. you re watching hardball. -i m sorry? -what teach here isn t telling you is that snapshot rewards safe drivers with discounts on car insurance. -what? -or maybe he didn t know.
washington. but democrats also need a positive economic agenda, a positive economic agenda and a set of proposals that reform agenda around the corruption to define the problem. if you can have an economic agenda and a way to reform washington, we ll do very well. there are some big debates in our party about what it looks like, but that will be the strong message against republicans and then a reason to vote for democrats. why will it be different? the book is out now. y yes, we still can. great read. thanks for being here. thank you so much. john? five minutes before the hour here. the president could end the policy of separating children from their parents at the border with a phone call. has he done it yet? here s a hint. no. we ll be right back. is one of the counties that you don t think about very much. it s really not very important. i was in the stone ages
investigation. there s a lot of things so far he has not been asked. i hope he doesn t because april 26th, i ll be sitting down with james comey. but we ll see what s left on the table by the time we get there. dana: it is interesting for somebody who spent that much time in washington and survived in washington, you think of somebody like rex tillerson, right? he s not a creature of d.c. comes to d.c., doesn t like it. doesn t really try to basically get engrained into the system. and then you have james comey, who is pretty much doing the opposite of winning friends and influencing people. he is like losing friends and annoying people along the way. right. you know, what s interesting, the perspective of how he s written his book and how he talked about it. it seems like he is trying to sell books to 50% of the country, and he s not effectively selling that 50% even because his explanation about the clinton investigation have not have, what i have