This is CBS. I on the world. I'm John Batchew with Thetius McCutter, my colleague and co-host.

Malcolm Honline is here. That is, you have a question for Malcolm.

Yes, Malcolm, the Houthis continue to fire missiles at the Harry S. Truman. What can you tell us?

That's exactly true that 18 missiles were reported fired at the aircraft carrier in the United

States, the Harry Truman, which has been in the Red Sea for some time. It has been escalating.

They did try to fire a missile at Israel, which landed near Sham al-Shechhech in Egypt.

The United States, and I have to say President, Trump's statements have been amazingly

correct and direct, analyzing both what the Houthis are about and what it is that is the, what the problems are with them and the goals.

And the goals are, number one, send a message to Iran, which is supplying them.

Number two, to get the leadership.

Number three, to take out their missile capacity.

You know, 25,000 ships used to go through the Red Sea on any given day, and the cost now for every American ship that has to go around because you can't use the Red Sea and the Suez Canal, it adds about a million dollars to each voyage.

So 25,000 merchant ships going through the Red Sea have been cut back dramatically.

And so consumer goods and other things to the United States and agricultural exports from the United States have been, the price have been raised.

And the Aouthi attacks caused about 75% of the U.S. and UK-affiliated vessels to reroute around Africa.

So this is at a great cost for which they are responsible.

And it's over a year since the U.S. flagged commercial ship safely sailed through the Suez Canal,

the Red Sea or the Gulf of Aden.

And America is saying we're not going to allow this to happen.

They should not allow it.

It should have allowed it to go until now.

And they're inviting retaliation, as the United States has said.

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