Jimmy Carter: “Without immediate action, we are at genuine risk of civil conflict and losing our precious democracy.”

I watched him on television. I thought what he said was absolutely ridiculous. There's no rational or logic to what he had to say.

Well, the agreement is not supposed to help the Cuban dictators and it doesn't. But the agreement does it helps both the Cuban people and the American people in the long-term.

I think that sends a clear signal to Maliki that we won't be there indefinitely and my hope is that they'll be a commitment by the world community including the controversial nations of Syria and Iran.

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.