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Now tehran is insisting they remove a piece of this. nic robertson is standing by with the latest. nic, what are things looking like from your vantage point this morning? >> reporter: yeah, jessica, look, this is the ship right here. there are british patrol, naval patrol investigators are here. they insist they are released. the ship is full of dye rain this. >> the ship wasnt on its way to syria. they see this as essentially written at the request of the united states holding tight to the maxi...

Is tense, and somehow the president feels like he use this as some type of peace agreement, we dont know if thats what the administration is thinking, if this is part of a plan, or if it is based on an asusumption that they can do this and the politics of the region have shifted and nobody can really do anything about it. tensions were already high in the region after president trump pulled the u.s. out of the iran nuclear deal, now tehran is taking steps to deal with the economic problems tha...

The details on this story, eric? >> reporter: hello, jenna. dont let him in. the heartfelt plea from one of the americans held hostage in iran about irans new ambassador to the united nations. 52 americans and our country held hostage by those student militants who seized our embassy. now tehran wants to send a translator hoe the iranian opposition was a member of that militant group to the united states as its new u.n. representative. we found him. his name is hamid labi. he is on linked in and...

They closed all ice skating rinks. now tehrans long suffering skaters are back in business gliding along the ice at the newly opened rink. one of the aims besides general recreation, i suppose, is to allow irans athletes to practice for the upcoming olympic and asian games. dont expect to see iran take part in ice dancing competitions. despite what weve seen, some things are still not allowed. men and women are not allowed on the ice together. the correct answer to our gps challenge question was...

Administrations inability and even the bush administration tried engagement in 2003 that they were going to turn over a new page. maybe the president believed that barack obama, the noble peace prize and all of this stuff would somehow be used to charm the iranians to change course. even the president now understands that there are fundamental divisions between washington and tehran. >> gregg: it would appear that tehran has been proceeding with their nuclear program and we heard a lot of threat...

Security council. theyre supporting terrorist organizations in yemen, iran syria, afghanistan. we cant trust them. >> and then this morning we have this tweet from the supreme leader of iran making fun of president obama. theyre taunting the u.s. i want your take on that. the bottom line question that i have to get your take on is is this deal a done deal? can congress actually have an impact here? stay with us on that. a lot to talk about with you this morning. first, lets dig into the showdown...