Five American freed by Iran en route to U.S.

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 18 September 2023

⏱️ 80 minutes

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First, inside the negotiations to release several American prisoners held in Iran. As part of the deal, the US unfroze $6 billion in Iranian funds. Plus, Jeffrey Clark, whom Trump almost appointed as attorney general, irritated a judge by not showing up for a hearing. Also, while bargaining tasks continue between Ford, General Motors, Stellantis, and the United Auto Workers (UAW) union, the UAW say they may announce additional international walkouts soon. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	American prisoners released from Iran and almost home.
0:07.6	The lead starts right now.
0:10.2	A nightmare almost over for five Americans who spent years behind bars in brutal Iranian
0:16.1	prisons.
0:17.1	One was a father, locked up when he was just trying to visit his jailed son.
0:20.9	Coming up, we're going to go inside the negotiations to get these Americans released, which some
0:25.4	critics are calling hostage diplomacy.
0:28.9	Anoyed on the bench, a judge in the Georgia election subversion case expressing irritation
0:34.2	today, with Jeffrey Clark, whom Trump almost appointed Attorney General to push states
0:39.2	to flip their results and who didn't bother showing effort today's hearing, and CNN undercover
0:46.0	looking into what the mercenary Wagner group is up to in Africa, even after its warlord
0:52.2	leader, the Afghani pregozion was killed under suspicious circumstances.
1:01.5	Welcome to the lead on Jake Tapper.
1:02.8	We're going to start our world lead with five Americans, whom the U.S. says have been
1:06.8	wrongfully detained in Iran, the longest for almost eight years, headed home.
1:11.1	We saw them for the first time today, stepping off a plane and cutter after leaving Iran,
1:15.6	right now the five are back on a plane, headed to the United States.
1:20.3	We'll expect it to arrive at a military installation outside DC around 3 a.m. Eastern tonight,
1:26.0	this tomorrow morning, according to the family of one of the released Americans.
1:29.5	Tomorrow marks the end of a year's long nightmare for these five Americans and their families,
1:34.4	51-year-old CMAC Namasi, who was detained in 2015, 59-year-old Ahmad Shargi, who was detained
1:40.8	in 2018, 69-year-old Murad Tabaz, also detained in 2018, all three of them facing unsubstantiated
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