asser for as international criticism, the u.s. has not taken kindly to that. saying you should be concerned with our own violence in your own streets. gun violence and et cetera. here is one big difference noted by a well-known iran analyst, in 2009 when the election protests took place, just about a million people in iran had smartphones. i was there and social media played a big part in organizing, getting witness accounts out. today 48 million iranians have smartphones. access to the internet. and that means they don't watch the state media, they can find out what's happening on their own. >> the regime is trying to block some of those opportunities to get that social media -- >> exactly. >> they're trying to block some of those sites. all right. thanks very much, jim sciutto, reporting for us. we're back with democratic senator chris coons of the foreign relations committee. so, senator, should president trump offer his opinion on the arrest in iran so publicly? he's been tweeting almost every day about it. or is he simply giving fuel to iranian hard-liner