the side of the protesters who have taken to the streets. victor? >> ryan nobles, thank you very much. joining us now, daniel lipman, reporter for politico and ron brownstein, senior political analyst and editor for "the atlantic." good morning to you. ron, i'll start with you with the question of why is the white house weighing in on these protests they are seeing in iran? the white house doesn't weigh in on every protest they see, especially in some of these adversarial governments. why this one? >> first, real quick, victor, note your map at the beginning of the segment where you highlighted north korea, syria, iran, russia. you could add economic challenges with china, you could have that in the barack obama administration. it's a reminder foreign policy problems are rarely solved. they are more often managed. the world is not the caucus of the house of representatives. it's hard for the president to impose their will on them. iran is, you know, certainly an