than the humvees in afghanistan. then he continued, evid% x0p the guys making all these rules never played the game of baseball. there it is from 1970. martha: i don't know. bill: play on! martha: i agree. all right, so there's a dangerous situation that is unfolding on the international space station right now. what crews are doing to try to fix this problem. and right now the wife ofside abedinny, the american pastor who is jailed in iran, is testifying at a house hearing. she's been a guest here many times in "america's newsroom," we'll tell you what she is pleading for today. >> my 7-year-old and my 5-year-old cry themselves to sleep every single night for the last 444 days. and knowing that unless we get said out quickly, he might serve the eight years, or he might not even survive the prison sentence.
regime that's sponsoring genocide in syria. they should have demanded the pastor be released up front as a sign of good faith to show they actually mean they're going to start changing their society. you don't change these societies' behaviors where religious freedom is the canary in the coal mine by just coming to the table. you have to demand good faith up front. will: the new leader, rouhani, he's said to be a moderate in public, and as a result, you believe christians are in a worse environment now in iran than they have in some time. explain that. >> bill, it's not only my belief, it's what's been happening. protestants especially in the last six months since rouhani -- the so-called moderate who's simply just another tool of the supreme council there -- has basically been imprisoning more christians. abedini himself has gone to the more violent prison and has been tortured. and you have prisoners like husseini, haqqani, porteo,
abedini is the tip of the iceberg. and rouhani is dancing -- the farce news agency had a cartoon that showed he was breaking down the walls of sanctions, and basically we were bending at our knees in america. and all the while we're simply doing nothing. the president says nothing about pastor abedini. religious freedom is suffering, and our fuzzy rells from america are weakening our position in the world and in the region. meanwhile, iran fuels a genocide in syria that we're saying nothing about, and i can tell you the plight of religious freedom is suffering, and they need to release pastor abedini to show some good faith. bill: we'll see if this wife can get her way and cause action because of it. thank you. out of arizona, back with us today. ♪ ♪ martha: all right. good news story for you now. this christmas there is hope in the battle against a disease that takes the life of a child every minute. malaria is one of the most deadly diseases for children
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