the united states and its allies launched strikes against the houthis in yemen. they struck more than 60 targets at 16 locations last night using more than 100 precision-guided munitions. iran now is condemning those strikes. joining us now from israel on the red sea is nbc news foreign correspondent josh lederman. what more can you tell us this morning? reporter: willie, this region is really on edge right now, bracing for potential retaliation from the houthis, which some type of retaliation does seem inevitable. the houthis are promising they are not going to let the attacks from the u.s. and uk last night go unresponded to. if they do retaliate, one likely target is right here in a lot on the gulf of israel s southern border, which has already been the repeated target of multiple houthi ballistic missiles as well as drones. there has been damage here over the last several months, although no deaths so far. but a big question coming out of
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missions in iran for a decade. we have good fidelity on what happens in the country. we had a punishing campaign for a long time. in my view, they stepped up and provided the target, and now the houthi response. david, do your sources in the government agree, we needed to do this? yes, they ve been really waiting, tugging at the leash for the last week or so as the houthi attacks continued. as i said earlier in the show, freedom of navigation is a red line for the united states. that is something we re committed to defending around the world. we take it very seriously. it was being challenged. shipping rates are going up. all the big ship carriers are moving away from the red sea. action was required. i think marc is right, that we put all the pieces of retaliation together strongly. the question is how we now see
policies you disfavor, joe biden seems to have figured out how to work the system to get his way, which is what you don t like about this. he s made money. you were frustrated because you couldn t work the system. the entire biden crime family, like jenny thomas said we won t be doing this interview live, by the way. we ll be recording this so we can put it in context and figure out what is going on. here s the problem. yeah. when these interviews start, he throws ten things at you, right? sure. so you come back, and you re trying to figure out the next follow-up question. my argument would be, and you go back to the cnn town hall meeting. i ll just say, he said, he called me weak. do i have to do it? i said, don t do it. he said, if i have to, what should i do? i said, ask one question, and this works for me when i was in debates with people.
that hamas did not want a wider confrontation. they had totally bought into the idea that hamas really wanted, you know, challenges, yes, but they wanted a policy of co-existence, and it proved completely wrong. that s what haunts israel. they have the same analysis you do, that iran would be crazy to go to a larger war. but there is this haunting memory, and i think that s why everybody is a little bit on tenterhooks now in the aftermath of the strike against the houthis. we just don t know what the response will be. we hope, we think that it ll be fairly limited, but nobody can be sure. that s why the white house has really been agonizing over what they did yesterday. they ve been thinking about it for weeks, wondering what the right package of targets was. it s the best known secret in town. right. but here it is, and now we have to wait and see. i have a question about the operation, and maybe you don t know the answer to this, but, obviously, this is taking place