00:00:00.000The protests look violent. They look destructive. How close is or how how at risk is the regime today?
00:00:11.880There's no doubt, Katie, that this is probably the most widespread protests that have been seen in Iran since 2009.
00:00:21.160Just the fact that the protests are organic, that are just not politically in nature, but started because of economic conditions and have spread so widely.
00:00:32.800And frankly, based on the reports that I have seen from the leading opposition group to Iran that's providing support to the Iranian opposition led by Mariam Rajavi and the National Council of Resistance of Iran, that number is far higher.
00:00:50.080The key here is whether or not, in the end, the opposition can coalesce around some leadership, both internally and externally.
00:00:59.760And secondly, whether the president of the United States and the United States can provide the technical and cyber support the opposition needs in order to unite.
00:01:09.580Did the president ever direct DOJ officials to open an investigation into Powell?
00:01:15.180And can you reassure the American public that his longstanding criticisms and public comments about Powell had nothing to do with the events?
00:01:25.500Look, the president has every right to criticize the Fed chair. He has a First Amendment right, just like all of you do.
00:01:32.000And one thing for sure, the president's made it quite clear, is Jerome Powell is bad at his job.
00:01:36.520As for whether or not Jerome Powell is a criminal, that's an answer the Department of Justice is going to have to find out.
00:01:42.360And it looks like they intend to find that out.
00:01:45.500And of course, we should note, and I know you mentioned this, Powell did respond in a very unprecedented video image or video response saying that this is all part of that pressure campaign that President Trump and the administration had been putting on him to lower those interest rates.
00:01:59.660What is the opposition, though? Is there a unifying leader for the opposition?
00:02:03.920I know there's some people that are talking about the former Shah's son who's been living in exile, but is he popular enough to lead Iran?
00:02:13.120No, this is a self-created delusion by people around the pretender to the throne.
00:02:19.760There is hardly any support within Iran for a restoration of the monarchy, particularly under Pahlavi, who is more or less lounged in California and is trying to latch on to these protests.
00:02:32.940The major opposition leader globally is Mariam Rajavi, who leads the NCRI or what is known as the MEK.
00:02:41.860And that organization has actually boots on the ground, providing support to the opposition leadership in many of these cities.
00:02:51.180But indeed, the internal opposition structure of Iran has been decimated by this regime.
00:02:58.580Because they're not trying to work with the community. They're trying to terrorize the community.
00:03:02.840Donald Trump views his administration as being at war with parts of America that he sees as too liberal.
00:03:09.500It doesn't matter that that's not the way, you know, America, American communities don't work like electoral maps where they're painted red or blue.
00:03:17.240But that's how he sees it. And he has deployed federal agents to make the populations in these places suffer.
00:03:22.920So incidents like this one where local residents are trying to prevent ICE from inflicting pain on their neighbors, you know, if those people end up shot, you know, the administration sees that as justifiable.
00:03:36.860He said so. He said as much himself. So, you know, they're not de-escalating because they're not interested in de-escalation.
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00:45:41.840A little turbulence in the other capital markets.
00:45:43.780Although, I say, and I told Bloomberg, I think the markets, equity and debt are supporting President Trump in this Fed war because that's what it is.
00:45:52.340It's got a lot of different aspects to it, but the president's just tired of the central bank making so many mistakes.
00:49:23.400It was kind of like when DEI came out and people were afraid to say you were against DEI or CRT because you would be called a racist, right?
00:49:29.600And then when people just started saying, this is crazy talk about that.
00:49:34.640And we saw that there was just so much commonality and so, you know, the silent majority, right?
00:49:40.680That we were, there were so many people passionate about the same thing.