in yemen. and colonel, also then listening to senator murphy on our air last hour, he s been critical of the u.s. involvement in some time. he wants out. this is what general votel said today about what the consequence of that would be. certainly, it is a very significant humanitarian disaster in yemen, but i do believe departing from our partners there removes the leverage that we have to continue to influence him which we think we have used in a positive manner and i think it further in dangers american in the region. further endangers american in the region, would you agree? i do agree because here s the problem. it s obviously awful that these weapons have gotten into the wrong hands and it s very clear from nima s report that this is exactly what is happened. it s not the first time this has happened but it s the most recent and it s one of the worst situations of this type, but if
this is that in essence yemen could eventually be part of the iranian orbit. that would be very bad for saudi arabia, possibly bad for our interests as well, the problem is, if you re going to fight a war, you ll have to do it on moral grounds as much as you possibly can and that is something that these countries have violated. colonel, thank you. nima, bravo. keep digging. thank you very much. thanks. still ahead here on cnn. this picture says it all, the incredible turnover in president trump s cabinet all in this one photograph. we ll talk about last year s state of the union and see who is left standing. plus, a racist picture in one of their old yearbooks involving the now embattled governor of virginia. now this medical school not only delivering a message to the black community but admitting there are more troubling pictures in recent yearbooks. we have that coming up. sooner or later, we all sign up for medicare.
past where we saw our partners overrun, we have seen american equipment provided to them, lost in the course of a fight end up in the hands of our adversaries out there. and you heard general votel there mention how u.s. enemies have gained control of american made weapons in previous worz and that s just one reason chris murphy of connecticut says it is time for the u.s. to end its involvement in yemen. it s infuriating but, frankly not surprising. it s why many of us have been advocating for years for the united states to get out of this civil war inside yemen. our support for the saudis has been allowing them to intentionally kill civilians and now we find out fairly definitively that the weapons we ve been given the saudis are ending up in very conservative, very radical sunni militias that mayened up using those weapons against the united states and
weaponry is prolonging the conflict. on our way back from the front line, we spot what we ve come in search of. it s absolutely incredible. we re driving past and it s like a grave yard of american military hardware and this is not under the control of coalition forces. this is in the command of militias. which is expressly forbidden by the arms sales agreement with the u.s. and that report was front and center during a capitol hill hearing where the head of the u.s. central command was questioned about these developments and what the defense department plans to do next. we have not authorized saudi arabia or the emirates to retransfer any of this equipment to other parties on the ground in yemen. i think we have to look more closely at the allegations in this particular situation to find out what happened. as we ve seen in iraq in the
bills. one of the sponsors of that bill, chris murphy, who sits on the senate judiciary committee. thanks for making the time for us today. thanks for having me. is this bill more symbolic than anything else? it s not symbolic and by the way there s no ongoing investigation as to whether the saudis ordered the murder of jamal khashoggi. we know they did. it s not an open ended question. this legislation that will pass the senate is very important, since the war act of 1973 that congress has used it to pull the united states out of hostilities abroad. the united states is helping the saudis in a civil war inside yemen where 85,000 kids have died of starvation and disease in part because u.s.-made bombs are hitting civilian targets and this is mohammed bin salman s top policy priority. it s an important resolution in and of itself because it gets the united states out of potential war crimes but it also