State of the union. Protecting our kids from gun violence. What will he be able to accomplish in 2016 and what to make of his possible successors. Finally, a riddle. What do asteroids, ice ages and man have in common . Find out later in the show. First, heres my take. I want to tell you today about an experience i had recently. One that i think shed some light on a big trend that worries all of us, radicalization. Ill get to my tale in a moment, so bear with me. Thomas jefferson often argued that an educated public was crucial for the survival of selfgovernment. We live in which that education takes place through new platforms. Its the main mechanisms by which people receive and share fact, ideas and opinions. What if these new technologies encourage misinformation, rumors and lies. In a comprehensive new study analyzed posts made between 2010 and 2014, people mainly share information that confirms their prejudices paying little attention to facts as was written about in a recent article. The result is the proliferation of bias narratives fermented by mistrust and paranoia. False information with the hope of spreading it widely. As it happens, in recent weeks, i was the target of a trolling campaign and saw exactly how it works. It started when an obscure website published a post titled, cnn host fareed calls for rape of white women. In my private blog, i urged the use of american women as sex slaves to depopulate the white race. Disgusting. You would think the item could collapse of its own weightlessness. Wrong. Heres what happened next. Hundreds of people began linking to it and adding their comment which is are too vulgar or racist to repeat. A few far right wing websites printed it as fact. The levels of hysteria rose and people started demanding that i be fired, deported or killed. For a few days the digital intimidation veered into the real world. Some people called my house late one night and woke up and threatened my daughters who are 7 and 12. It would have taken a minute to see that the post was on fake news site. One that claims to be satirical but doesnt make that clear. None of this matter. The people spreading this story were not interested in the facts. They were interested in feeding prejudice and hysteria. The original story was cleverly written to provide conspiracy theorists with enough ammunition to ignore evidence. It claims that i took down the post after a few hours when i realized it received negative attention. When the occasional debunker would point out there was no evidence of the post anywhere, it made little difference. When confronted with evidence that the story was utterly false, it only convinced many there was a conspiracy and cover up. Elizabeth colbert recalled an experiment performed by two psychologist in 1970. They divided students into two groups based on their answer, high prejudice and low prejudice. Then the questions were asked again. The surveys revealed a striking pattern. By talking to one another, the bigoted students had become more bigoted and the tolerant, more tolerant. This Group Polarization is now taking place at hyper speed around the world. It is how radicalization happens. I love social media, but somehow we have to help create better mechanisms in it to distinguish between fact and falsehood. No matter how passionate people are, no matter how cleverly they can blog or tweet or troll, no matter how viral things get, lies are still lies. For more go to cnn fareed and read my Washington Post column this week, and lets get started. Saturday was a banner day for iran. It was a day that many of the islamic critics were certain would never come. The rogue nation or once rogue nation was found to have complied with its requirements under the nuclear deal. It took part in an extraordinary prisoner swap with america and then major financial sanctions against the country were lifted and billions of dollars of its assets released. Well unpack all the details in this hour. Lets start with cnn Nic Robertson who is live. One of the things that struck me is while America Media made a big deal of this story, the iranian media had not because it was reported that there were many hard liners in iran still opposed to the deal. Explain the politics of iran that allowed this to happen. Reporter its long been understood that the hard liners, those who sort of came to power through the revolution of wanting to maintain a firm control over the country and a lot of people have questioned whether or not the president who have been behind negotiating this deal were a power within the country were really strong voices within the country or merely a front put up by the iranian government to improve their standing of iran in the world to unfreeze those billions of dollars. We heard in the last few hours from the president some quite striking words. I believe go to the heart of that. He talked and appeared to have a message for the hard liners in his own country. He said would have believed that our own diplomats and politicians can negotiate for iran and come back on an equal footing with the rest of the world and negotiate a good deal for iran that diplomacy is good. Theres a win win situation. Its way for it. That appears from the president of iran to be a very clear message to the hard liners in his country and for the p population that its been achieved. There is positive benefit. Weve heard during the process of waiting for the International AtomicEnergy Agency to announce irans compliance from the iranian media. We heard leads there was going to be a Prisoner Exchange from a lawyer representing one of the american iranian detainees. The release held up according to the lawyer because the iranians werent sure, wanted to make sure that the assets that were being unfrozen were unfrozen and money was blowing before the Prisoner Exchange could happen. The diplomatic foot work here has been obscure to us a lot of the time but for the iranian president hes using it to bolster his moderate position in iran right now. Fareed. Thanks, nic. Terrific reporting as always. This deal would not have happened without my next guest. Wendy sherman was the United States lead negotiator on the deal. Shes senior fellow at harvard belford center. Thank y thanks for joining us. Thank you. Good to be here on a good day. There are critics that say lets start with the Prisoner Exchange that i know was a side negotiation that secretary kerry was having. That this is irans pattern. It takes hostages, should never have happen and then demands concessions of it. What do you say to people who argue that the iranian position has been one of doing things that they should not do even in the Nuclear Arena and then expecting concessions for undoing them. I think theres no question that iran has done things that all of us think are wrong. They detained american citizens completely unjustly. They built up a Nuclear Program that even the iaea said in the past had really been focused towards Nuclear Weapons. We know that they are destabilizing parts of the middle east. They sponsor state sponsorship of terrorism. Their human rights record is not good to say the least. All of these facts are facts. Its also true that not only the United States but the International Community has sanctioned iran repeatedly for all of these terrible actions. It has really harmed the iranian economy. Thats why as Nic Robertson reported you hear the president who is about to face parliamentary elections and council of expert elections talking about how this is good for the country because they need to write an economy that, quite frankly, is very deep in the hole. They have paid a price. A very big price for what they have done. What i think we should be focused on today are two very important things. One, american citizens are coming home, though we still have some more work to do in that area. Probably for Robert Levinson and his family. Hes been missing for so many years. We have a nuclear deal thats been implemented where iran has significantly reduced its program and must remain entirely peaceful forever. When you negotiated with these people, did you get the feeling when you were negotiating with them that a, they were trustworthy and when they would Say Something across the negotiating table, they stuck to it. Secondly, did they have the power to make the deals they were making as you went through this long process. As secretary kerry and president obama have said, this is not a deal about trust. This is a deal about verification. If my counter parts said something across the table, we needed to verify it. We needed to know it was fact there had been compliance. As you know there was an interim step called the joint plan of action. It ended up being in place for nearly two years and the iranian s complied with every step of that which added confidence they might comply with a comprehensive plan and all the provisions appear to have been implemented and the iaea will continue to monitor compliance. As to whether they had the power, there were times when they said things and hard liners since iran has hard liners did not back up where they were and they had to start again. They also watched in our country and the United States a very vigorous debate where there was not agreement and with our International Partners around the world there was not complete agreement about going ahead with this deal. This was a very complicated negotiation, not just in the room, but with parties in our own country and around the world. Stay with us. Up next, ill dig deeper into the sanctions with the prisoner swap. Well be back with more. Welcome. How you doin . Good how are you . So today youre gonna choose a mobile office. You can choose this Chevy Silverado which offers built in 4g lte wifi. Or you can choose this ford f150, which doesnt offer wifi. But to make up for it, we added a trailer, a satellite antenna, and dolores. Hey fellas Group Laughter what . So, which one do you want . 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The iranians have filled it with holes. This is now like the parrot from monty python. Its gone. They is pledged to never rebuild it an make sure we have year of inspections instead of soldiers patrolling. We make sure this is under lock and key tied down for a generation or more. Ythey were a couple of month away from making a bomb. Where are they now . Weeks away. That bomb has been completely drained of uranium. Bebe can rest assured they do not have the capability to build a bomb. Under this timeline, it would take a year to restart the facilities and have enough for one bomb. The underground facility that israeli bombs cant penetrate. Theyre not allowed to enrich uranium. Only about 500 centrifuges are left from the 20,000 they had. They put them under lock and key and camera in safe warehoused facilities. Any gas they had most of that has been shipped out of the country. They are years away from the capability of building a nuclear weapon. Brett, you were a skeptic from the start. Are you still a skeptic . Sure. The enthusiasm that joe shows for the deal is like the same that was made in 1994. Theres a couple of basic problems. One of them is the quality of intelligence. Intelligence must never be mistaken for intelligence. Time and time again were surprised by nuclear developmen developments, which ever way they go. John bolton was mocked in 2003. The facility was confirmed by professor hecker several years later. People should be muted in their confidence for things we have uncovered and things that we might not know about. Even as the iranians have leased their hostages, theyve taken the biggest hostage of all, and thats nuclear deal itself. Iran test fired two Ballistic Missiles in blatant violation of u. N. Security council resolutions. The administration said it would sanction iran for that. The iranians said well consider that a violation of the deal and the administration quietly removed the sanctions. Iran is going to use the threat of nuclear snap back to constantly tell the west if you sanction us for our behavior, the deal is off. Wendy, you heard Brett Stephens on this issue of missile testing. What do you think happened . We have about a minute. Im sorry to ask you to do this briefly. Sure. The administration said it will proceed with sanctions against iran and i expect that they will. It takes time to put the evidentiary material together. In that i think brett is entirely wrong. What about the more general point which is that the deal is one that the administration is going to want to preserve and wink at some smaller iranian violations. This is not an all or nothing response to iran. The way that the deal is written, there can be calibrated responses if iran doesnt do something major, but does something minor. Theres an entire dispute resolution mechanism and an ability for the United States to unilaterally slap back sanctions on and to go to the United Nations and get multilateral sanctions on without the ability of china, russia or anybody to veto that action. This can be done in small steps or all at once. We have a way to calibrate this and respond to the violations that occur. I trust that we will. Stay there everyone. Well be back with more news out of iran including a statement by the president of the United States, coming up at 10 45. Stay with us. D last tuesday. One second its there. Then, woosh, its gone. I swear i saw it swallow seven people. Seven. I just wish one of those people could have been mrs. Johnson. [dog bark] trust me, were dealing with a higher intelligence here. The allnew audi q7 is here. Starts with arthritisg pain and a choice. This is sheldon, take tylenol or take aleve,. The 1 recommended pain reliever by orthopedic doctors. 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Of course, as in india, the iranian parliament, they said 300 sanctions were made by iran. Has the power of the hard liners weakened . Are we looking at a different iran . I think its premature to say that. This deal wasnt signed by the iranians because of the geopolitics. It was because of sanctions and the drop in oil prices. It forced them to take this decision. Thats why some folks, people like Henry Kissinger are concerned. Maybe oil prices have come up a little bit. Are the iranians going to continue to adhere to the deal. Well see what happens. When you look at what it was that got rohani, the support. Is it publi