Flint Lawmaker Says $400 Million To Iran Was Not A Ransom Payment

There are new questions about the release of Flint native Amir Hekmati from an Iranian jail, after a report that the U.S. secretly organized an airlift of $400 million to Iran very same day.

But Flint Congressman Dan Kildee, who fought for the release of Amir Hekmati, says he believes government officials who say the $400-million loaded onto a plane was part of a separate negotiation over a failed arms deal.

Kildee says he does not believe it was a ransom.