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#Iran: Ransom. Richard Goldberg is a senior advisor at FDD. From 2019-2020, Richard served as the Director for Countering Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction for the White House National Security Council. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1

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🗓️ 11 August 2023

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#Iran: Ransom. Richard Goldberg is a senior advisor at FDD. From 2019-2020, Richard served as the Director for Countering Iranian Weapons of Mass Destruction for the White House National Security Council. Malcolm Hoenlein @Conf_of_pres @mhoenlein1
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/10/us/politics/iran-us-prisoner-swap.html

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0:00.0

This is CBS Eye on the World with John Batchler.

0:10.0

Here's John Batchler.

0:12.0

I'm John Batchler with Malcolm Home Line Conference of Presidents,

0:15.2

Major American Tour of Organizations, and we welcome Rich Goldberg as the foundation

0:20.1

for the defensive democracy to help us understand a headline in the New York Times in these

0:23.9

last hours.

0:24.9

U.S. reaches deal with Iran to free Americans for jailed Iranians and funds.

0:31.2

Subhead five American detainees will eventually be allowed to leave Iran in exchange for

0:35.2

Tehran gaining access to six billion dollars for humanitarian purposes and the United States

0:42.1

freeing several jailed Iranians.

0:44.6

Rich, that's a lot of detail.

0:46.8

Do you like the six billion is that accurate?

0:48.8

Good evening to you.

0:50.4

Good evening, John.

0:51.4

Six billion.

0:52.4

That's a lot of money for five U.S. hostages that have been wrongfully detained.

0:57.5

That is more than one billion dollars per American hostage.

1:01.6

Quite the price tag we have now established for the dictators of the world who might

1:05.5

nap an American.

1:08.0

We know there's seven billion dollars that has been under negotiation trapped in South

1:12.0

Korea.

1:13.0

We're seeing these reports as you're reading them of six billion going to be transferred

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