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Months ago from news reports. been a regular prison, so not a state security prison which was also a good sign, the lack of diplomatic representation makes it very difficult for us to have any level of communication with him, and the difference in the legal system obviously compounds the problems that we are having trying to understand and navigate through the iranian system. >> jon: take this opportunity now to speak to the government, what would you say to them about his imprisonment? >> we have made an outreach before and would ask for some humanitarian gesture here to take them home. he is...

Smart attorney general. someone who understands the law, someone who understands politics, someone who understands washington. i have absolute confidence that attorney general is going to do this in a way that puts full transparency on the process and deals with the political games and the democrats may want to play with it. >> jon: 's of senator lindsey graham is holding this thing up in the senate because he says he wants another special counsel appointed to look into things like the clinton email server. would you like to see another special counsel >> sandra: ? >> i would like to see an in...

If so how do we make it safe for the rest of the world and smaller airlines operate? once they do that, it could be a couple of weeks. they could be back in this guy. >> sandra: mike boyd, thank you for your expertise on the matter, appreciate it. >> jon: meantime, u.s. coalition forces in syria and a fierce battle to free the last isa stronghold. we are live in the middle east with breaking developments. >> sandra: plus, a u.s. navy vet sentenced to ten years in prison in iran accused of insulting. but our u.s. tensions at play? 's lawyer will join us next.

>> is another point without airline. they said the maintenance people looked it over. maybe their maintenance people aren't particularly qualified either. we can't rule out the fact that as has been made by president trump that may be these airplanes are too sophisticated for some airlines. >> sandra: i know one of the questions they were exploring here in "the wall street journal" went really in depth into this investigation as to the development of this particular plane, the 737 max series on his questions about whether or not the company itself, boeing had too much oversight of its own comp...

>> jon: the u.s. navy veteran has been sentenced to ten years in prison in iran. he is accused of insulting the ayatollah while he was visiting his girlfriend in july of last year. he has 22 days to appeal the sentence. the lawyer for michael white, he joins us now. what do you know about the reasons for his conviction? >> we don't know a lot. i'm sure many of you are viewers know that we don't have diplomatic representation, the swiss handle that for us and we were informed there were two hearings on may 6th -- march 6th and march 9th and he was sentenced to two years and ten years for one ch...