Breaking news this morning. Five americans are on a plane, one step closer to their freedom after being wrongfully detained for years in iran. We are live in qatar which is their first stop and where they are expected to touchdown any moment. In georgia, a hearing a under way for one of Donald Trumps codefendants where one of the defendants is asking his case to be moved from a State Court Into Federal court, and will it fail like mark meadows did. And how, a irs agent is saying that his rights were failed. With kate bolduan and sara sidner, im john berman and this is cnn news central. Five prisoners in iran wrongfully detained are expected to arrive in qatar by jet. And talking ging about siamak , emad sharghi, morad tahbaz and two other Unidentified Americans will be headed to america. And now 6 billion will be available to iran for humanitarian reason, and five iranian held prisoners will be released as well. Becky anderson is in doha, and what is the very latest that you are hearing from here, and what are these next steps . Well, within the hour, the flights, the Qatar Airline flight carrying five american citizens, and siamaks wife will be on the plane and land in an airport in doha and processed here and greeted by The Americans who have been part of this in direct negotiation and then headed home free at last, and what a feeling that must be after what has been years long incarceration, wrongfully detained in iran for so long. Sigh Siamak Namazi has been wrongfully in prison on charges that he colluded with a hostile government and charges america and americans are saying that these charges are untrue. In the air, they have cleared iranian air space, and they are due here within the hour. Qatar, the Mediation Country here working tirelessly behind the scenes for the last 18 months and eight rounds of talks we are told by the sources who are familiar the situation here sorted the logistics and the qatari ambassador took The Americans to the airport just about an hour and a half ago, and boarded the plane with them, and also organizing for the 6 billion worth of iranian assets that are being transferred from a south korean bank via switzerland to doha banks here. That cash is going to be available to the iranian authorities to spend on humanitarian goods. That is the story and the very latest here, and bottom line, we should see that Qatar Airways plane arriving at this airport on the tarmac behind me within the hour. Kate . It is great to have you there, becky. Natasha, we had john kirby from the white house on, and he said when they land in qatar, that is going to be the moment they have a sense, and to get the first eyes and first conversations with all five of The Americans when they land there. Kirby also saying that this is a great day for everyone to see this happening. Talk to me about the months and months of negotiations of how this came about . Yes, kate, it played out over six or seven month, and the administration has been pursuing a deal to get these americans released since coming into office, and the contours of the deal took shape about seven months ago and importantly the u. S. Officials never actually spoke to the iranian officials facetoface. The u. S. And iran dont have diplomatic relations, and everything with regard to the negotiations was taking place through intermediaries and the qataris were an important part of having the american Prisoners Released in teheran, and the iranian prisoners held in the u. S. , and the 6 billion in fund also being released which is a key part of the deal as well. That is the part of the negotiation that has sparked a lot of the backlash by republicans who have criticized administration for releasing the funds which are iranian funds for iran to use for humanitarian purposes. The administration is pushing back, and saying, look, this is not going to fundamentally change our relationship with iran. They said that iran is an adversary and statesponsor of ter terrorism, but when we are bringing americans home, we will seize it, and that is what we are doing here. The Biden Administration is going to issue new sanctions from iran, and target the ministry of intelligence and iranian president mahmou d adenazad. And expect more, natasha. Thank you. Sara . Yes, and we have seen many, many case where is The Americans have been detain and then eventually released, and so is christiane, i wanted to know how they got released in some ways . Yes, and i spoke to the one who has been held the longest, see sighamak namazi, and when i asked about the charges put against him, he said, we have all been charged being connected to a hostile government, and he said that we are all american, and i dont know how you make that up, and he said that the only reason they were taken and The Americans before them is because they were americans, and that is it. Just because they are americans. They are taken and used as pawns in this political and horrible game between the United States and iran that has lasted since 1979. There were the hostages taken at the very beginning of the revolution, and siamak has been held six times as long as those, and that all it is, iran to get back its own money, which it is, and that is the way they do it. And individuals pay the price. I wanted to talk to you about namazi, because you have this incredible interview that could have put him in quite a bit of danger, because he was speaking out to someone who would broadcast this across the world, and listen to a little bit of the conversation. Honestly, the other hostages and i desperately need President Biden to finally hear us out, and hear our cry to help and bring us home. I suppose desperate times call for desperate measures, and so this is a desperate measure. I am clearly nervous. I mean, he Sounds Extremelier in voushgs and he sounds frightened and he does not sound well as he is sitting in this notoriously dangerous prison. Do you think that conversation may have moved needle some . I do. I think that somebody who is in prison without being free, and without having all that is available to us standing right here with us right now takes that decision to put his life at risk to make a desperate plea to his President Biden and to everybody including iranian government who is responsible for holding him to please get this sorted, i think that it is a huge, huge, huge step of courage. Yes, he was nervous, and he did even get emotional in the interview s. He spoke on behalf of himself, and emad sharghi and morad tahbaz, and two others who had been there for much, much less time, a saying that they deserved to be treated as human be beings, and they have not done anything wrong, and we havent so much as jaywalked. It is because we are american citizens, and we are pawns in this game. I will say that he talked to me about, and he would not go into a lot of detail, but a he is under the iranian guard, but of the indignities that he and the others faced and certainly himself in the twoplus years, solitary confinement, and being fed like a dog through the underneath of the prison door, et cetera, and you know, he took this step. I hope that it did rattle some cages everywhere including in the u. S. Administration to finally get serious about these negotiations. We know that the Family Members have been coming on all over the world to get people to listen, but you have talked about them being used as pawns, and you have reported on this many times before, and should there be concern of making the deal, and 6 billion, and it is going to be a separate thing, and the United States will only release for humanitarian reason, but they are getting some prisoners as well, but is that problematic . It is problematic, because hostages are used instead of policy. And President Biden went into a similar deal with russia with whom the United States is in a proxy war with right now to get out brittney griner, and our colleague Evan Gershkovich in there. And we have the most terrible regime in moscow there, and previous president s, President Trump dealt with the iranians get there, and left siamak behind. So, in the end, if they can come up with some antihostagetaking plan and the whole world can be on the same side, and every country has an issue, and they have gone into the deal in the end, and including brits and many allies, including u. S. It is not just this administration, but it is administration after administration, and americans being used as pawns. Donald trump says it is his decision to try to overturn the 2020 election results, and remember that everything that he says now can be used in court. Hunter biden is suing the irs saying that the agents illegally released his Tax Information. That is a new twist in that standoff. 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Only pay for what you need. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Liberty. Happening at this moment in georgia, a formal hearing for Jeffrey Clark who is looking to get his election subversion charges out of state and into federal court. The lawyer for clark is making same arguments of mark meadow, and a lawyer for donald trump is inside. Katelyn polantz just stepped outside of the court. What are you seeing . Well, Jeffrey Clark, himself, he is not here, and so he is not going to be testifying today, john. We did not expect him to necessarily, because he has already submitted a sworn statement to the court about what he was doing after the election saying it is part of his job, and he was not doing anything on Donald Trumps behalf personally, but this is a important hearing, because we went through this with mark med dose and that was rejected and moving up to the Appeals Court about whether he could move his case, and that was politics and the role of the white house, but this is a bigger question today, and one that may be harder for judge jones, a federal judge here in Northern District of georgia, and the question is whether the state prosecutors can look into what the Justice Department was doing at the time after the election. Jeffrey clark was serving as the head of the Civil Division of the Justice Department, and a pretty prominent role in that entity and that agency, but he was in touch with donald trump, himself, and something that he was not authorized to do in that position and he also wanted to send on the Justice Department letterhead, a letter to the State Of Georgia the give them cover to look into the Election Fraud when the Justice Department knew that there was not a reason for them to look into this, and that there was not widespread fraud, and that the federal government knew that, and they were telling Jeffrey Clark not to do this, and not to do this, and his attorney Harry Mcdougal and one of the things that he was saying is that the draft letter that he prepare on behalf of the Justice Department that was never sent, and that it never left the office at the Justice Department, and if that can be part of the states case against him is a big question, because kit have implications for donald trump himself, and his attorneys are here to see how the proceedings are going, and it is come down to how much protection Jeffrey Clark and people like him may get because they were serving as federal officials after the 2020 election with the things they were doing, and now accused of being crimes in the State Of Georgia. And Katelyn Polantz from almost realtime updates from inside of that courtroom. Keep us posted. Thank you. Kate. And did donald trump just complicate matters for all of the defendants . The most senior lawyers in your own administration and on the campaign told you that after you had lost more than 60 legal challenges that it was over. Why did you ignore them and decide to listen to a new o outside group . Because i did not respect them. Were you calling the shots, mr. President , ultimately . As to whether or not i thought that it was rigged . Surement it was my decision, but i listened to some people. Some people said that. Joining us now is cnn legal analyst, elie, on that, do you think that the comments from donald trump in this new interview with Kristen Welker are going to be a problem in court . Well, it is helpful for prosecutor, because he said, this is my intent here to try to reverse the election, and i was calling the shots. Jack smith wont have any problem to establishing that, but it is nice to have him looking into the camera saying that, but this is the overall defense, and he is going to argue, i am telling you that there is no evidence, and others are saying, that there is evidence, and so i made the decision to press forward and useful piece of evidence for the prosecutors on the whole. And for Jeffrey Clark not to go to court today, and if we split screen this with the last request from mark meadows, and mark med dose testifying, and took the risky move for testifying, and it did not work out for him, and why would he not want to testify . Well, mark meadows is exhibit a of why Jeffrey Clark is not testifying. He is a lawyer, and he has his own lawyers, and they told him, you dont want to be anywhere near the courthouse or in the State Of Georgia. Now, if you are making the motion where he says, i want to take my case out of state court and over to the federal court, you have to prove that he was doing his job. So he could take the stand, but also, he could submit a written affidavit, and so what he is going to do by his attorney is saying that affidavit is the strength of his testimony. And what evidence does he have to have to have his case moved from state to federal . It is some untrod territory here, and he has a weakened case, because he is a doj official, and i didnt have the same job, but i have a good familiarity of what you are supposed to do there. And what he did is to draft a letter from the department of justice and to the State Of Georgia saying that we have found fraud, and this is a fraud, and this is opposite that you are supposed to investigate with good faith, and reveal the findings of that investigation, and so i am not seeing that what he did is within the scope as a doj official. And what we are hearing from Katelyn Polantz from the courthouse who is ip side of the court as we are hearing is that it actually never left the office or the Justice Department, and so why should state prosecutors be able to look into something that never left the office. Do you see how is this different if at all from mark meadows in terms of the actual jobs and roles of the federal government . Well, it is interesting argument from Jeffrey Clark, if i drafted it and going to save it on my computer if we found some fraud, that is one thing, and the fact is that Jeffrey Clark wanted to get this letter sent out of the buildings, the superiors of doj said no way, and the same judge here as in the case of