00:00I have a couple of questions.
00:02On Yemen first, what is the U.S. strategy regarding Yemen?
00:06Is it degrading the capabilities of the Houthis that they don't pose a threat to U.S. interests,
00:13or is it destroying them completely?
00:15Because there's conflicting statements from U.S. officials saying, like, we're not going
00:19to interfere with the civil war in Yemen.
00:21Well, what we've seen, of course, in the past when it comes to the Houthis, it was a tit
00:27for tat strike.
00:29If the Houthis would be sending missiles or attacking both commercial and military ships,
00:36what the previous administration did is they would do one strike as a tit for tat dynamic.
00:42What's happening now is a complete shift when it comes to the nature of why it's going on,
00:47which is to stop the assault on the maritime traffic in that area.
00:53Up to this point, there's about 174 attacks on American naval ships, which is an extraordinary
01:02number of attacks.
01:04And this isn't a situation that should be managed.
01:06It has to stop.
01:08So the message to the Houthis is if this will end, when you end the attack on both commercial
01:16and military ships in that region.
01:20So it's a maritime issue, and it's meant to completely change the posture of the Houthis
01:26and of course in conjunction in that dynamic with Iran, that the days of pinprick responses
01:34where we allow that to occur is over.
01:37That's I think a pretty clear statement from the administration as a whole as well.
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