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Iran-backed Houthis issue new threat after Saudi airport attack · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: One person is dead in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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  Speaker 2: When they hit the airfield there, a civilian terminal got
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  Speaker 2: struck yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: This is the second time.
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  Speaker 2: After the airport was struck Saturday, killing at least 13 people,
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  Speaker 2: including one American.
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  Speaker 1: Trey Yinks is live in Tel Aviv with the details.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, Trey.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Hey, Brian. Good morning.
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  Speaker 4: Houthi rebels in Yemen are now issuing a direct threat
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  Speaker 4: to foreign airlines over Saudi airspace or using airports inside
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  Speaker 4: the kingdom.
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  Speaker 3: We reiterate our warning to all international companies, experts, employees,
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  Speaker 3: workers and travelers from all over the world to not
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  Speaker 3: operate flights to Saudi airports as they are unsafe, except
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  Speaker 3: for the airports and airspace of the holy cities of
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  Speaker 3: Mecca and Medina.
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  Speaker 4: The warning comes after 13 people were killed and more
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  Speaker 4: than 300 injured when the Houthis launched a missile attack
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  Speaker 4: against a Saudi airport on Saturday. The target of the
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  Speaker 4: attack was Riyadh's King Khaled International Airport, at least one
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  Speaker 4: ballistic missile slamming into Terminal 3 as it was packed
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  Speaker 4: with passengers. First responders rushed to the scene in ambulances
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  Speaker 4: and helicopters, evacuating many of the hundreds who were injured.
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  Speaker 4: Another attack occurred just a day later against Terminal 4,
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  Speaker 4: killing an additional person. The strikes raised questions about if
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  Speaker 4: the United States could come to the defense of Saudi
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  Speaker 4: Arabia and launch a new round of strikes against this
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  Speaker 4: Iranian proxy group.
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  Speaker 2: Have you decided whether to join the Saudi strikes on the.
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  Speaker 1: We may. We're going to look at it.
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  Speaker 5: How soon?
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  Speaker 2: We just found out about the recent attack, so we'll
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  Speaker 2: make a decision.
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  Speaker 1: We move very quickly.
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  Speaker 4: Condemnation for the attack is poured in from world leaders
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  Speaker 4: and officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who said
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  Speaker 4: in a statement, these reprehensible attacks demonstrate a blatant disregard
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  Speaker 4: for innocent civilian life.
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  Speaker 1: They must stop now.
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  Speaker 4: Rubio goes on to say, we stand with the Kingdom
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  Speaker 4: of Saudi Arabia and its people and extend our condolences
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  Speaker 4: to the victims and their families. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
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  Speaker 4: Netanyahu added this, saying, on behalf of the people of Israel,
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  Speaker 4: I extend our deepest condolences to the families of those
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  Speaker 4: murdered and our wishes for a full recovery to the injured. Still,
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  Speaker 4: the Houthis are continuing to issue new threats. That spokesperson
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  Speaker 4: warning those foreign airlines about using Saudi airspace. The question
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  Speaker 4: now is how Saudi Arabia and its allies will respond
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  Speaker 4: and if this could involve the United States.
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  Speaker 1: Brian.
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  Speaker 2: It's going to be a big question, and we're going
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  Speaker 2: to talk to you about it next hour, Trey.
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  Speaker 1: So, thanks so much. Stay close.
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  Speaker 2: Let's bring in the former Donald Trump, National Security Advisor
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  Speaker 2: KT McFarlane.
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  Speaker 1: KT, do you think it's time for the U.S. to
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  Speaker 1: step in?
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  Speaker 2: Two hits on civilian airports, innocent people dead, including an American?
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  Speaker 5: It's been two so far. These are going to continue.
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  Speaker 5: The Houthis think they've gotten a great victory over Saudi
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  Speaker 5: Arabia and the United States. So these are going to continue.
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  Speaker 5: So where are we now? Seven, eight, nine, ten of
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  Speaker 5: these attacks. Yeah, the United States is going to join
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  Speaker 5: with Saudi Arabia, probably Israel, probably the other Gulf Arabs,
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  Speaker 5: to really finish off the Houthis, to take the war
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  Speaker 5: to the Houthis. Why? Because the Houthis are, as Trey
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  Speaker 5: just pointed out, Iranian-backed. So it's going to happen, whether
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  Speaker 5: it's before the election, after the election, the United States
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  Speaker 5: will help Saudi Arabia defend itself.
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  Speaker 2: And reports are that now China and Russia also directly
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  Speaker 2: supplying the Houthi rebels more than ever, including with missile technology.
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  Speaker 1: So has that been brought up?
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  Speaker 2: You know the world of diplomacy, behind closed doors, not
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  Speaker 2: something for public consumption. Could there be some things going
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  Speaker 2: on behind closed doors with those calls to Vladimir Putin
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  Speaker 2: and the state dinners with Chinese presidents?
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  Speaker 5: Most particularly, yes, with China, with regard to China needs
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  Speaker 5: oil from the Middle East. It needs Iranian oil, which
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  Speaker 5: it's been getting at very cheap discounted prices. But that's
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  Speaker 5: just run out. It's run out in the last couple
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  Speaker 5: of days. So China needs oil. It needs oil from
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  Speaker 5: the Middle East. And so China isn't necessarily going to
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  Speaker 5: rush to jump in on the side of Iran, which
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  Speaker 5: it probably perceives as losing this war. You know, will
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  Speaker 5: the Chinese help? Will the Russians help? Sure, they'll do
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  Speaker 5: a little intelligence. Maybe they're doing some weapons, you know,
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  Speaker 5: that nobody's really watching. But they're not. Where are the
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  Speaker 5: Chinese aircraft carriers, right? Where are the Russian battleships? They're
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  Speaker 5: not helping Iran. They're sitting it out.
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  Speaker 2: The other big news that happened over the last few
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  Speaker 2: days is the president of the United States, in a
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  Speaker 2: personal call with Vladimir Putin, has gotten a deal that
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  Speaker 2: would bring hundreds of tons of diesel oil to our shores.
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  Speaker 2: But that money is no doubt going to be used
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  Speaker 2: to help kill innocent Ukrainians and those in the battlefield.
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  Speaker 1: Are you OK with that tradeoff?
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  Speaker 5: Look, Russia gets its money to pay for this war
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  Speaker 5: through oil sales. It still sells more oil to Europe
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  Speaker 5: than Europe is paying Ukraine to fight the war. So
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  Speaker 5: am I OK with the United States kind of bailing
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  Speaker 5: Russia out for the immediate term with diesel?
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  Speaker 1: Let's just see where it goes.
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  Speaker 5: If this is the beginning of a ceasefire, if this
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  Speaker 5: is an energy ceasefire, Ukraine doesn't attack Russia's energy infrastructure.
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  Speaker 5: Russia doesn't attack Ukraine's infrastructure. We got a little bit
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  Speaker 5: of oil in the— that' s fine. If Russia, however, is going
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  Speaker 5: to use that money and then escalate the war and
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  Speaker 5: not go to the negotiating table and then think that
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  Speaker 5: somehow it's got President Trump over a barrel— bad joke— barrel of oil, look,
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  Speaker 5: it's not going to happen. President Trump's not going to
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  Speaker 5: be done in and fooled by Russia or Trump. China
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  Speaker 5: or Zelensky or Iran?
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  Speaker 2: Well, Vladimir Putin's making them look terrible because he says
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  Speaker 2: there's a ceasefire on energy, and this post was backed
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  Speaker 2: up by fact. Zelensky put it up. A power plant
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  Speaker 2: in Kharkiv was attacked this evening. Overall, the past weeks alone,
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  Speaker 2: the Russians have carried out more than 200 strikes. on
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  Speaker 2: electricity generation and transmission facilities in Ukraine. And another 17
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  Speaker 2: strikes this week targeting gas and oil facilities.
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  Speaker 1: Ukraine wants peace. The question is whether Russia does.
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  Speaker 2: Look, Russia is having one of the most catastrophic.
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  Speaker 1: Wars in their history.
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  Speaker 2: Four and a half years, 1.4 million casualties, hundreds of
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  Speaker 2: thousands of dead, 30,000 a month, and now they're losing
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  Speaker 2: ground in the Donbass, which some predicted would be won
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  Speaker 2: by Russia flat out.
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  Speaker 1: So they have no choice.
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  Speaker 2: I'm concerned about them using that money to help kill
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  Speaker 2: our guys in the Middle East.
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  Speaker 5: The question I would have is, OK, so there was
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  Speaker 5: this one supposed— one attack against Kharkiv. Is there going to
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  Speaker 5: be another one? This attack came just a few hours,
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  Speaker 5: a few minutes after President Trump posted that there was
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  Speaker 5: an energy ceasefire between Ukraine and Russia. Maybe it was
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  Speaker 5: a mistake. Maybe it wasn't. If it happens again, that
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  Speaker 5: ceasefire deal is done. And I think the question will be,
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  Speaker 5: is the United States going to somehow be helping Russia
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  Speaker 5: continue to fight this war? I just don't see it happening.
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  Speaker 5: You know, Russia has gotten rich because of the oil,
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  Speaker 5: high oil prices and selling that oil, using that oil
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  Speaker 5: money to fight, as you point out, a losing, hopeless, grinding,
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  Speaker 5: terrible war in Ukraine.
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  Speaker 1: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Vladimir Putin's a terrible person with no good side. Sooner
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  Speaker 2: or later, we'll realize that. KT McFarlane, thanks so much.
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  Speaker 1: Always great.