on the u.s. capitol. instead, for 187 minutes, between leaving the ellipse and telling the mob to go home, the 45th president of the united states first argued with secret service agents who refused to take him to the capitol. then after returning to the white house, sat in a small, private dining room off the oval office, transfixed by the violence he saw playing out on fox news. which showed the capitol under siege. trump learned just 11 minutes after returning that the protest had turned violent, but he did not make any calls to intervene. failing to reach out to the secretary of defense, the attorney general, or the department of homeland security. instead, he demanded a list of senators phone numbers, calling and encouraging them to delay or object to the certification of the electoral college count. while the president s official call log from the white house that afternoon is empty, trump placed at least two other calls that day. not to the military or the police but
Credibility with the iranian population given the travel ban and the decertification of that bill. The second thing they can do is put regime on notice, and put a regime notices that theyre cracking down. Like singling people out . Singling people out. Making sure that apps used to communicate in iran based in the u. S. , not shutting them down. Not shutting them down. What effect do you think that would have . As much as iranian leaders say they dont Pay Attention to what the u. S. Administration says or western europe, they absolutely do, because the people do. The people look to it. They look to it for moral support. So, i think putting people on notice to say, listen, the world is watching you has a huge effect. Is there a risk, that if the americans and this administration embrace these protests too much, that it kind of feeds the narrative that
youre hearing from Senior Leaders in iran that are starting to say this is westerndriven . Yes. Foreign enemies are using this opportunit
journal op-ed tuesday and this is part of what it said. i can defeat trump and the clinton doctrine and whether her name is on the ballot on not, her foreign policy is as to many of the democrats adhere to her doctrine to be the world s police and using tools to overthrow governments that we don t like, and wasting taxpayer dollars and causing destruction abroad and undermining america s security. and there are those who say, they don t want the russians to be america s police as well. and so what is your message to democratic voters who may see this, and maybe listening to you right now, and feel that it is mirroring president trump s isolationist foreign policy views. i think that american people are smarter than to buy into these crazy smear tactics and baseless accusations.
you re hearing from senior leaders in iran that are starting to say this is western-driven? yes. foreign enemies are using this opportunity, and so in doing so, you kind of get the nation to coalesce around the leadership. country and against the protesters? well, the u.s. has to walk a fine line. there are decades of mistrust between the u.s. and iran, the leader. the more president trump conducts diplomacy by tweets is putting sort of fuel to the fire. and it plays into the narrative in iran that, you know, the u.s. is against us. they want to overthrow of this government, like they ve been behind overthrowing other governments. right. so, i think you have to walk a fine line. have the more high ground. say we support the protests. we support the right for people to peacefully demonstrate. but we don t want to be seen as getting out in front of other governments to overthrow governments in the middle east. that hasn t worked. that s a formula for disaster. one of the thin
arch die says of north american, father thomas zan. thank you for being here with us. can you ever envision peace in the middle east for christian? i think we can. i think we can. because prior to for example in syria and iraq, prior to these wars the christian in those countries lived in peace with their muslim neighbors. that s a very important point, father. i would like to understand why this genocide and i think you agree it s a genocide, yes? yes. why now? we ve tried to overthrow governments, we meaning the west, the u.s., whatever, without thinking ahead to what the countries will look like after we remove the governments. we don t like this government or that government and we remove them for whatever reason. but we don t follow through with