organized by brave iranian citizens on the largest scale since 2009, but the international community cannot sit silent as it did then. the united states supports the iranian people and we call on the regime to respect its citizens' basic right to peacefully express their desire for change. >> sanders was asked whether encouraging the protests ran the risk of a backlash against them from the iranian government. she said, no, and, again, said president trump won't, quote, sit by silently like president obama did. richard haass is the president of the council on foreign relations. he argues under president trump the united states abdicated its power own responsibility, changing the country from the principal preserver of order to a principal disrupter. he writes about this extensively in the new afterward to his book, "a world in disarray: american foreign policy and the crisis of old order." i spoke with him before air. ambassador haass, you've been talking now, writing about what you see as an abdication of u.s. responsibility. u.s. power in terms of the foreign policy under this administration.