Good evening: The show begins in Yemen where the Zaydi cult Houthis expect to outlast the US Navy presence in the Red Sea.
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🗓️ 18 March 2025
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1926 Sna'aa Yemen
CBS EYE ON THE WORLD WITH JOHN BATCHELOR
FIRST HOUR 9-915: #YEMEN. HOUTHIS DEFY THE HARRY S TRUMAN. BILL ROGGIO FDD 915-930: #IRAQ: DECAPITATION STRIKE ON ISIS COMMAND. BILL ROGGIO FDD 930-945: #GAZA: AIR STRIKE ON HAMAS. DAVID DAOUD, FDD; BILL ROGGIO, FDD 945-1000: #LEBANON: REORGANIZING. DAVID DAOUD, FDD; BILL ROGGIO, FDD
SECOND HOUR 10-1015: 1/2: ISRAEL: HOSTAGES UNSOLVED. MALCOLM HOENLEIN @CONF_OF_PRES @MHOENLEIN1, @THADMCCOTTER @THEAMGREATNESS 1015-1030: 2/2: ISRAEL: HOSTAGES UNSOLVED. MALCOLM HOENLEIN @CONF_OF_PRES @MHOENLEIN1, @THADMCCOTTER @THEAMGREATNESS 1030-1045: PRC: MISSING MILITARY COMMANDERS. @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL, CHARLES BURTON, SINOPSIS 1045-1100: PRC: UNKNOWNS OF STRATEGIC WEAPON LAUNCH COMMAND. @GORDONGCHANG, GATESTONE, NEWSWEEK, THE HILL; PETER HUESSY.
THIRD HOUR 1100-1115: 1/2: #UKRAINE: KURSK SALIENT COLLAPSES. JOHN HARDIE, BILL ROGGIO 1115-1130: 2/2: #UKRAINE: KURSK SALIENT COLLAPSES. JOHN HARDIE, BILL ROGGIO 1130-1145: 1/2: POTUS: "REALISTS" VS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. LEE SMITH, TABLET. @THADMCCOTTER @THEAMGREATNESS 1145-1200: 2/2: POTUS: "REALISTS" VS TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. LEE SMITH, TABLET. @THADMCCOTTER @THEAMGREATNESS
FOURTH HOUR 12-1215: 1/2: #TURKIYE: KURDS SHAKE HANDS WITH HTS AND ANKARA. SINAN CIDDI, FDD. 1215-1230: 2/2: #TURKIYE: KURDS SHAKE HANDS WITH HTS AND ANKARA. SINAN CIDDI, FDD.1230-1245: #NEWWORLDREPORT: VENEZUELA, EL SALVADOR, BRAZIL, PANAMA. JOSEPH HUMIRE @JMHUMIRE @SECUREFREESOC. ERNESTO ARAUJO, FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL. #NEWWORLDREPORTHUMIRE 1245-100 AM: #NEWWORLDREPORT: COLOMBIA, BRAZIL. JOSEPH HUMIRE @JMHUMIRE @SECUREFREESOC. ERNESTO ARAUJO, FORMER FOREIGN MINISTER REPUBLIC OF BRAZIL. #NEWWORLDREPORTHUMIRE
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. The show tonight begins in Yemen. The Houthis of North Yemen. Some of the leadership has fled to Oman, expecting a counter from the U.S., having provoked it these last days, and now boasting of firing drones and missiles at the Harris Truman and its escorts in the |
| 0:23.3 | North Red Sea. The president has sent a warning to Houthis, stop where else? Well, here comes the |
| 0:31.8 | else. Question is, will the U.S. take out the arsenals, which some have reported are buried deep in underground? |
| 0:40.5 | They've been storing missiles and drones for quite some time, coming from Iran, perhaps manufactured in Yemen in the Houthi cities. |
| 0:50.2 | In any event, the Houthis are now taking on the Trump administration. |
| 0:57.3 | Bill Raggio, my colleague, speculates that perhaps they don't know this is a different president and a different motive. |
| 1:06.9 | The Houthis have been warned, and now we'll see. |
| 1:11.0 | Bill says the assumption is that the U.S. won't keep it up, but just one off. |
| 1:17.3 | Maybe. |
| 1:18.5 | U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, everyone's ready to obey the President's direction to end the disruption of world shipping through the Red Sea, |
| 1:29.7 | costing some fantastic amount of money and dislocating shipping lanes for the last year or more. |
| 1:36.4 | Then David Dao joins to talk about airstrikes in Hamas territory in Gaza. |
| 1:43.0 | Some Hamas fighters were planning an IEU, a V-B, an IED in the roadway. |
| 1:50.6 | I forgot my terminology from the Iraq war. And the drone took them out. Three KIA. |
| 2:00.0 | They looked to have been teenagers. |
| 2:02.2 | That's what Hamas said to be recruiting to fill its ranks, untrained teenagers. |
| 2:08.3 | Massacre. |
| 2:09.7 | Up against first-rate soldiers in the IDF and the drones of the idea. |
| 2:16.2 | Lebanon is reorganizing the Hezbollah, according to David Daoud, and there have been |
| 2:21.9 | airstrikes there as well. |
| 2:24.3 | They're not nearly what they were before, but they're looking to pop off some missiles to |
| 2:29.0 | look like they're in the fight. |
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