opioids in america play out at the highest court one hour from now the court takes up the purdue pharma bankruptcy deal. the agreement that could shield the family from further lawsuits down the road. the families of opioid victims not happy about it. d.o.j. is challenging. see what the supremes say. keep an eye on this. an american warship came under attack and how the pentagon is responsible to that. it will take us a long way whether or not iran the gets a message. it s monday. hope you get ready for the holidays. we are, right? dana: i m dana perino. and this is america s newsroom. good to be with you today. we want to tell you about the attack that happened yesterday off the coast of yemen. enter bill: the assault lasted for hours and the u.s.s. carney shot down three drones in self-defense. dana: it s seen as the biggest escalation against u.s. troops in the region. bill: general jack keane has analysis. trey yengst reports from southern israel on the war with
response strikes, let s bring in former ambassador to malta and president of the middle east policy council gina abercrombie winstanley. good to have you on bbc news tonight. i want to start with that statement that we were just mentioning in narrow lead worded, no mention of israel or gaza. is that the us trying to avoid further escalation? absolutely. the secretary of state has been very clear on the president has been very clear of our desire to not have conflict grow. this is an opportunity to show that this is indeed an international effort, that 47 countries being involved with the effort to secure shipping through that lane, the fact that four continents were represented in the countries that helped carry out this strike. so this is a place where in fact the united states is very much in lockstep
syria, iraq, hezbollah, a number of groups in the region and the houthis in yemen. the iranians are providing weapons, training and capabilities. in terms of the houthis, we don t know yet how much the iranians were helping the houthis with critical intelligence and targeting so that they could fire their weapons in the hope to hit shipping in the red sea. so, this is a runny and threat runs very deep. now, people will tell you again, the iranians are not looking for a full out war but they are content to stir plenty of trouble through the militia groups they are supporting. thank you so much for your analysis tonight. good to speak with you. for more on the diplomatic response strikes, i spoke with former ambassador to malta and president of the middle east policy council, gina abercrombie winstanley. good to have you on bbc news tonight. i want to start with that
cnn s nic robertson joins me live on this. this is where they said they launched an oil attack less than two weeks ago. what more do we know about this? reporter: yeah, the emergency situations ministry said they got reports of the fire at an oil depot at 2:00 a.m. in the morning, currently under investigation. so, of course, this happened under the or during the hours of darkness. and the russians were very quick to point the finger of blame at another oil depot fire 11 days ago, again, close to the border with ukraine. at that time they said ukrainian helicopters came across the border and targeted that oil depot, and they promised at that time to have response strikes and there were strikes within the days afterwards against ukrainian oil depot. so i think at the moment the track is set here for the
for 25, 30 years. if these iranian-backed militias have been using these sites to use drones to attack our personnel, why just now are these sites being taken out, michael? there have been a number of these attacks. this is i think there have been 24 attacks by these militia s against u.s. targets just since january. so we ve only seen two u.s. response strikes. so the biden administration is trying to respond but to respond in frankly a pretty measured manner. likely because they don t want to see escalation between the united states and these groups and second because frankly when they do this, it does the end to prompt a strong negative reaction from the iraqi government which condemned the u.s. retaliatory strikes in the past 24 hours. trace: you use the word measured. i ve heard that several times in the past day or so since the story broke it is a very