shadow of what used to be the world trade center. how do you feel about that? >> well, as we've discussed before, these protests are not accidental nor spontaneous, they're part of a concerted set of information operations crafted by our adversaries to create friction and discontent inside the united states. look, iran, russia and china have huge malign information efforts designed to capitalize on our freedoms of speech while at the same time, they control and suppress what's allowed to be heard and said inside their own countries. now, these u.s. university students and faculty participating in these extreme protests, frankly, are dupes and they're displaying gross ignorance of how they're being manipulated and in some cases, these protests inciting violence and the perpetrators