I'm John Bachelors with Thaddeus McCotter.

Malcolm Ho-line joins us just back from the Holy Land.

Thatius?

Yes, Malcolm, we're seeing the U.S. naval deployments in the region.

We're also seeing Booth missiles being fired.

What's the latest?

So the update is that the United States has reinforced its presence.

The 6th week command and control ship that Mount Whitney is headed to the eastern Mediterranean

to support the U.S operations there.

It has the State Command and Control Communications Intelligence

Capabilities, and so it has commander to direct air ground and maritime

units.

It's very important that It was deployed against the Libyan regime in 2011 and also a U.S. Navy

destroyer, the U.S.S. Carney, a Navy guided missile destroyer, took down three land

attack, cruise missiles and eight drones launched by the Huthies, which are backed by Iran and Yemen and the Jil of Saudi Arabia and others,

and were headed, they believed, towards targets in Israel, and they were going along the Red Sea,

which would have brought them directly towards Israel.

On Wednesday, three drones were shot down by U.S. military forces near Iraq and near U.S. bases,

and another drone near U forces in eastern Syria.

If so, Iran is ratcheting it up because none of these people could do it without the support of Iran.

We go to the north, Malcolm.

The Hamas wire is not secure, hence the casualties today, but in the north there have been repeated provocations by

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