see with the houthis rebels in the red sea going after cargo vessels and not just israel bound ship going after u.s. ship, u.k. ship spirit if that escalates, that is another play that iran has appeared may be you are not doing direct counterstrike against israel, but you are going after the ships and that is how you do it through the proxies. remember this is a monetary story. the one thing i will say and we will see that antony blinken will speak in the next hour is that the saudis and the u we do not want this escalation of this conflict. it is one thing to have a smaller regional conflict i m a bit if you are opec plus, which includes russia, you don t want to see an escalation because of what it will do to the global oil market. so i know there s a lot of tentacles in this, but you have to take all of these factors as we go to the summer season in
more and more extreme, more and more strident. they re not really about particular policy or that particular tactic of the israeli government and the idf in the war against hamas. it s much bigger. there was a protest yesterday i saw protesting against the u.s. and the u.k. responding to the houthis. now it s defense of the houthis. so defense of a terror organization that s disrupting international shipping, causing enormous damage to the global economy, hurting american workers. these people are storming retail businesses and destroying them. they are shutting down public transportation, making it impossible for people who earn hourly wages to get to jobs. the israelis killed or they haven t claimed responsibility for it, but it s understood that the idf targeted one of the hamas commanders a couple of weeks ago. he s dead, he was killed in southern lebanon. there s a $5 million american bounty on his head. the americans have wanted this guy dead because he s got american blood on hi
israel. the houthis say five people were killed and six injured in the u.s.-led strikes. they have vowed to respond calling u.s. and u.k. assets legitimate targets. translator: the american and british enemies bear full responsibility for its criminal aggression against our yemeni people, and it will not go unanswered. reporter: the u.s. strikes come with defense secretary lloyd austin still at walter reid medical center where he d been since new year s day recovering from complications to treat prostate cancer. a defense official said austin spoke with president joe biden twice and gave the final authorization for the strikes on the day they were launched, monitoring them in realtime from the hospital. and defense secretary lloyd austin remains at the hospital tonight. there is no word from the pentagon or no outlook on when he could be released. it s worth noting that today he spoke with the chair and ranking member of the house armed services committee and the ranking member of
have capabilities. but the u.s. and the pentagon are expecting a much further perhaps even larger response from the houthis here, one that more directly targets potentially u.s. assets in the region as we wait to see how this unfolds. in the dead of night on the red sea, the attack took shape. u.s. navy fa. 18 fighter jets launching off the deck of the uss eisenhower part of a coordinated strike toward houthi targets in yemen. the u.s. not acting alone here. typhoons from the u.k. s royal air force took off frim cypress to join in the attack with the support of australia, bahrain, canada, and the netherlands. this is an international problem that required an international response. reporter: early friday morning in yemen the attack hit home. the explosions and thick smoke visible in the dark skies in north west yemen and the capital under the control of the iranian backed rebel group. the u.s. and it u.k. targeted