Jimmy Carter: “The principle that justice should be done in public is a basic part of our legal tradition.”

This is a very wise and very courageous thing for President Obama to do. And in my opinion, is long overdue.

The aircraft carrying the 52 American hostages had cleared Iranian airspace on the first -- first leg of a journey home. And at every one of the 52 hostages was alive, was well and free.

We share a belief that the church was to no way be confused with a political community, no bound to any political system.

That our country for the first time in my lifetime has abandoned basic principles of human rights.