>> what steve refers to there, that's probably the biggest single ingredient for the houthi, when they came down from their traditional territory, they just didn't fight and were sometimes aligned with the houthi. >> what do you make of vladamir putin telling them to stand down in yemen? >> he's having a moment where he wants to confuse the world. right now, with what's going on with the nuclear negotiations, those nuclear negotiations matter to china, they matter to russia, they matter to europe. right now the mess we're seeing boil over that could bring saudi forces, and not only saudis, but the bahrainis, the kuwaitis, the uae, even qatar has ten planes in this mess, right into direct contact with iranians. the saudis have said any ship that goes in and out of the yemen port will be destroyed.