americans were moved from tehran s notorious eivin prison to a hotel guarded by iranian officials earlier today. cnn s 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, let s hope so because he was desperate. and you re 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 didn t 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
bret: i m bret baier. this is america s newsroom. 55 people killed and expected to rise as rescue crews comb through the rubble of neighborhoods. the sheer scale of the devastation there. they turned a tropical paradise into what is called an apocalypse. officials are scrambling to find shelter for thousands left homeless. dana: putting more stress on fire crews who have been working around the clock, bret. this happened quickly. the devastation on day two here i m afraid what people will end up finding. they have so many people still missing. bret: the most amazing thing. some of the video that started coming out a couple days ago are the people jumping into the ocean to avoid the flames. the devastation is unbelievable. now federal authorities are trying to get as much as they can to these people who have lost everything. dana: one more point on this. will cain spent a lot of time there as a child and throughout his adult life and he has been giving us some inform
alliance, and it s good for sweden and turkey and all of nato and the baltic region. but the big topic of discussion at this high stakes summit is the war in ukraine. ukraine wants a path to nato membership, but the u.s. and other countries are reluctant to do so while the war is still raging. looking at this is josh letterman, and also joining us, jim townsend, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for nato. and a former deputy assistant second of defense. how did this happen? well, josé, according to the countries that are involved in this, nato and the u.s., and of course, turkey, they were able to move past long-standing concerns that turkey had about arms exports and terrorism within sweden and finland, the country that joined nato back in april. but behind the scenes there was a lot of wrangling by the turkish government trying to extract concessions on key issues, including trying to get the u.s. to sell f-16s to turkey, and we started to hear from presiden
that s coming up. also, i have a break you how, with everything we have been through and everything we ve learned should deal with a proven liar and now someone liable for defamation and sexual abuse, donald trump. how do we deal with him? how do we cover interviews and town halls? we re not against interviews. i have a breakdown on that later. what donald trump said on his live and lengthy appearance on cnn last night is our top story. we ll get to that later. the top story tonight is the tapes. george santos back in washington voting on an unemployment fraud bill, which is wild considering that is part of what he s been indicted for. santos arraigned on 13 separate federal charges wire fraud, money laundering, abusing public funds. doj claiming santos spent money he claimed was for his campaign but he basically grifted, pocketing it according to the filing for personal expenses, luxury designer clothing, credit card payments for his own personal use. these charges come
warships. alexandria hoff has more. alex. alexandria: the reaction is more muted than the visit from nancy pelosi last summer. this dynamic does shift day-by-day and yesterday an aircraft along with three vessels were spotted near taiwan. china foreign ministry told reporters the u.s. was coniving with taiwan and the ministry said china will take firm and forceful measure to safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity. these are threats chalked up to china simply deploying intimidation tactics. republican congressman michael mccaul, who led the delegation, said this overnight. working together and this is why we are here today, sir, in person, to tell you we are friends of taiwan. we support taiwan. and united we will protect taiwan from the communist chinese party. alexandria: once again the taiwanese president will meet with the delegation tomorrow, following the wednesday meeting in california that sparked the chinese warnings, the group of lawmakers is to