Patrick Bet-David (Host)

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So that's Hugh Hewitt.

Now, this is an interview with Reuters on Wednesday that this is a different interview.

In an Oval Office interview with Reuters, he said that while Reza Pahlavi seems like a nice guy, Trump wasn't sure the Iranian population would accept the crown prince as the country's leader.

The conversation happened moments after Trump appeared to pump the brakes on an American military intervention, something the president has been threatening for weeks.

as the Islamic regime has brutally cracked down on widespread protests.

He seems very nice, but I don't know how he'd play within his own country, the president said of Pahlavi, and we really aren't up to that point yet.

I don't know whether or not his country would accept his leadership, and certainly if they would, that would be fine with me.

Trump said it was possible that the government of Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, could fall amid the demonstrations.

Though added, in truth, anti-regime can fall.

Whether or not it falls or not,

Whether or not it falls or not, it's going to be an interesting period of time.

Trump added Pahlavi was born in Tehran, the son of the U.S.-backed Shah Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, who Iranians overthrew.

The 65-year-old Pahlavi, who lives in D.C.

suburbs, has played a very vocal role in the protests from abroad, but on the ground, there appears to be a little organized support for the country to again be ruled by the monarchy.

So that's what...

Are you joking or are you being serious?

I fully agree with you there.

There's your Princeton professor for you.