00:00so a third u.s aircraft carrier now sailing towards the middle east the uss george hw bush
00:06taking the longer route more cautious route sailing along the coast of africa intentionally
00:12this blue navy blue route is that we're looking it take us like 14 to 21 days route avoiding red
00:20sea this is what we're doing this is red sea we are avoiding this because it is in the middle
00:25and europe like that okay avoiding the red sea where iranian back terror groups could pose a threat
00:34to ships going through that area retired four-star general jack keen is here with us welcome to national
00:39security correspondent jennifer griffin hi jennifer hi martha iran's interior minister ordered the
00:46governors of border provinces to neutralize the threat of a naval blockade president trump warned
00:52iran's fast attack ships they would be blown up if they approach any u.s ships involved in the
00:58blockade of the strait of hormuz so there appears to be a standoff the u.s navy has 18 warships
01:04right
01:04now in the middle east including the u.s this is what we all have 18 navy as tripoli which
01:10has marines
01:11on board who can carry out search and seizure operations at sea of ships that left iranian
01:17ports and try to leave the strait the uss michael murphy and uss frank e peterson two guided missile
01:24destroyers entered the strait this weekend to begin setting conditions for clearing our 10 000 u.s troops
01:31are on the sea by there for doing the blockade mines we learned yesterday that the uss george hw
01:39bush aircraft carrier strike group which left norfolk virginia on march 31st had to go around the southern
01:46tip of africa following threats from the houthis to strike ships in the red sea and close the bab
01:53al-mendab strait in solidarity with iran our ship is right now here march to may last year the pentagon
01:58carried out operation rough rider a six-week operation look third u.s aircraft carrier heading to mid is
02:06going from the longest road to avoid the red sea area because there would be iran proxy terrorist groups
02:14and they can harm our ships to degrade the houthis ability to threaten ships in the red sea it cost
02:21over a billion dollars and led to concerns about depleting u.s munitions stockpiles 200 million dollars
02:28were spent on missiles in the first three weeks of that operation yes the u.s lost seven mq-9
02:34reaper
02:34drones worth 30 million dollars apiece and two fa-18 jets worth 50 million dollars each so this is a
02:41big loss
02:42for u.s what happened there and we would not do the same mistake again that's why we are just
02:49taking
02:49some precautions right now tentcom said something listen hit more than 1 000 targets using these
02:56weapons and yet the houthis survived and are now threatening to disrupt global shipping by closing the
03:02bab al-mendab strait very similar to what they're doing in the yes this is what iran doing with the
03:07straight of hormones halfies are doing with the another straight straight of four booze martha okay
03:13uh we'll see where it goes jennifer thank you very much jennifer griffin this is what it is guys let
03:19me
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