This is a series of CBS I in the world. I'm John Batson with Malcolm Holen-Lai. We're very pleased to welcome Michael Knights.

Jill and Jay Bernstein fellow at the Washington Institute specializing in

just what we're going to ask about the hoothes and the Gulf. Mike a very good

evening to you thank you for this. What I have is that Galaxy Leader, a very large slick-looking

container ship, was taken control by hooty operatives who were dressed in some fashion like a video game.

The Galaxy Leader is now in the possession of the huthies and a 25-member crew are hostages

to the huthies.

There have been other attempts since then. What is the mission? are hostages are hossed to the huthies.

What is the mission statement that the huthies are putting out?

Why are they doing this, Mike?

Good evening to you.

Thanks for having me.

So the wrong-backed huthies who run Northwestern Yemen are seizing the Galaxy leader because it is owned by an Israeli businessman, even though at the time it was seized it was leased to a

Japanese company. So this is the hoothes doing their part in the anti-Israel war

run by the axis of resistance all of Iran's partners in the region.

Malcolm?

Well, so the attack on the the firing at the U.S.S. Mason, even though it fell short, it seems clear that it was

targeting or at least sending a warning to the U.S. troops and to the U.S. ships.

To what degree are we seeing the Hootis

willing to escalate and run the risk of hitting an American vessel and the

response that would inevitably follow from that.

Yeah, the Huthies have been very risk acceptance in their actions, the military actions around American naval vessels.

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