war. if these arms sales go through which include things like munitions that are being used f for this effort in yemen, our weapons will be used by saudi arabia and the uae to do things like kill civilians. secretary of state pompeo who notified congress about this emergency yesterday needs to own the fact that the united states is going to be selling weapons to saudi arabia and the emirates and others that are going to be used to continue to target civilians in yemen. >> and i want to take a moment to talk about the troops in the middle east as well. president trump saying that we need additional troops there because iran is such a threat. has the threat from iran actually increased? what is driving that decision, do you think? >> i think it's very likely that the threat has increased. i think that it would be unlikely that the state department would withdraw such a significant amount of people from iraq if the threat hadn't increased. i think it's unlikely that the pentagon would recommend the