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So much news over the weekend.

It is believed that more than 5,000 Iranians were mowed down in the streets of Tehran and throughout the country by the security services and the service of the Ayatollah Khomeini. Hamini did the original revolution. Hamini is the supreme leader who succeeded him decades ago. So it's no holds barred now. President Trump is weighing his options at this hour.

He gave the Iranian regime many warnings on truth social a week ago, on this program on Thursday,

on Sean Handy's program on Thursday night. And then last night on Air Force One, he was asked

by reporters. And he said, well, they've asked for negotiations, but they've apparently, we'll

bring you that tape a little bit later, but they've apparently decided to go with killing people.

Now, the Iranians, according to President Trump, and of course he's got great credibility right now,

have offered to negotiate. I don't know what they have to negotiate over. They've killed

5,000 of their own people. And President Trump told them, don't do that. And they did it.

And then Hamini went on the air and made fun of Trump and the United States over the weekend.

So although the Wall Street Journal is reporting at this hour that there is division in the ranks within the administration,

perhaps there is. Let me read you the story. The White House is weighing a last-ditch Iranian offer to engage in diplomacy over curbing its nuclear program.

We curbed their – President Trump obliterated their nuclear program, even as President Trump currently leans towards authorizing fresh military strikes on Iran.

Some senior administration aides led by Vice President J.D. Vance are urging

Trump to try diplomacy before retaliating against Iran for killing protesters during a two-week

uprising over a flailing economy and regime repression. I don't believe that, by the way. I think

that is a made-up thing by people who are not actually J.D. Vance talking to the Wall Street Journal by the isolationist wing.

I think the vice president will support whatever the president decides to do.

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