Tommy Vitor

Um, on Saturday, the Supreme leader called the original protesters grievances legitimate, but he also said, quote, writers must be put in their place, which is ominous.

However, president possession said he wants his interior minister to meet with protesters.

He wants them to hear them out.

Um, and on Monday, the government announced that they would give most citizens a monthly payment equivalent to like seven bucks.

So I don't know how far that'll go, but it doesn't seem like much.

Trump has commented on the situation several times.

Last Thursday, he posted on social media that if Iran, quote, violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue, end quote.

He repeated that threat on Sunday in that same gaggle we played you a clip from earlier.

Yeah.

which, you know, after the Maduro operation certainly gave it some added weight.

Of course, our favorite boy, Lindsey Graham, weighed in on this as well.

Here he is on Fox News, again, being a very serious person.

I think this was with Trey Gowdy over the weekend.

Very cool hat, Dork.

Lindsey Graham just put on a Make Iran Great Again hat there, though it was black and I don't know.

I hate him.

So, Ben, let's start with the protests themselves and then get to the U.S.

response.

So what are you watching for in terms of tipping points or something that might lead to a signal that there might be an actual regime change?

And what do you make of this kind of seemingly incoherent response from the regime so far, or at least kind of all over the place?