Of mystery surrounding his medical condition and as tensions roil in the red sea, houthi rebels firing a ballistic missile at a u. S. Commercial vessel near the gulf of aden. Less than a day after militants launched a crucial Missile Strike toward an american destroyer. The houthis now vowing to target american ships in that crucial corridor. They have been saying that they will continue to do that. The u. S. Strike despite the u. S. Strikes, rather and they will not back down. Lets bring in general keith kellogg, former national Security Adviser to president pence, now co chair of the America First Policy instituted. Thanks for joining us here. I want to start with President Biden on saturday talking about the message that he sent with these retaliatory attacks to the
monitoring a press call in place where we re getting just new information about some of the behind the scenes and what sort of led to what we are seeing right now on the screen. a senior administration confirming what cnn reported earlier this evening that u.s. vessels had been targeted by the houthis on tuesday. this is a series of attacks that we saw just two days ago. this included a u.s. commercial vessel as well as, according to the this official u.s. military vessels. and just to give you a sense of what exactly happened on tuesday, we are told by this official that had it not been for this defensive coalition that had been in place in the red sea, this is what we ve been referring to as opoperation prosperity guardian that ships would have been sunk and this commercial ship full of jet fuel would have been hit. and they described it as a close call. we re also told as some of this we reported on earlier after
us. the white house is clear this is to protect economic value if you like, because this is a shipping lane, but you also heard there from someone in congress suggesting that the risk is that it will be interpreted as getting involve in the middle east crisis and the war. reporter: that s correct, max. it is a risk that at this point the u.s. deemed was necessary and a risk that had to be taken given what they say had been happening from the houthi rebels. the attack on tuesday by houthi rebels. we understand from a senior administration official that those 21 drones and missiles that were shot down by u.s. and uk navy assets in the red sea, that was actually targeting a u.s. commercial vessel. so this was really the tipping point from washington s point of view, but they did have the support of the uk and other countries who believe that this was necessary. now, we ve heard from uk junior