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Envoy for hostage affairs is a man named roger car stens. he led the swap that happened for griner s release. and he told my friend dana bash that he spoke with paul whelan the day after the swap. here he is. i said, paul, you have the commitment of this president, the president s focus, the secretary of state s focus. i m certainly focused. and we re going to bring you home. and i said, keep the faith, we re coming to get you. now, the troubling part about that for you, i know, is that your brother was not mentioned. do you think the government is doing all it can to get mark back? i certainly hope so. we expect so. i m disappointed. i can t hide that. i m disappointed that they don t say his name. they haven t said his name yet. ....
Hours of monday morning. iran s authorities hanged a man. according to news agencies, he was convicted of waging war against god, the accusation against him is that he killed, stabbed to death, two members of iran s security forces and wounded several others. but the devil is in the details here. the allegation is that this incident took place on november 17th, meaning he went from being an accused man to being a hanged man in under a month. that s why activists and rights groups are saying he is victim to a sham trial. and that really the only purpose behind his execution is to intimidate, is to scare other protesters and provide iran with yet another tool of repression. and there is concern more executions could be coming. he could the second protester killed since the start of this popular uprising in september. ....
States doesn t believe, as director burns said, that he s got some serious medical issue that is going to take him out of the picture. no, no, certainly not. but i do find it interesting what you re saying. you re not buying into any of those theories, and i don t want to repeat them all. but, to you, it does seem fair that he does look tired, and the word puffy. because it does feel accurate. some of those picture where s people go into other theories, he seems puffy. absolutely. there are times where i think his rhetoric gets ahead of him. and i think that s a sign of fatigue. he really wants to be a person who is in control, very carefully modulated. and there have been occasions when his rhetoric has gotten a little out in front. and i think that s just a sign of fatigue, which is understandable given the stress that the man is under with the catastrophic blunder he made by ....